Theresa May is set to snub Donald Trump at the G20 summit after he savaged her Brexit deal as 'great for the EU' - and warned it would hit trade with the US.
The PM's spokesman said there were 'no plans' to hold talks with the President at the gathering in Argentina following his dramatic intervention - which echoed the complaints of Brexiteers and threatened to kill off the package altogether.
As the government reeled from the blow, one minister highlighted a tweet claiming Mr Trump wanted to 'finish off' Mrs May, while Cabinet Office minister David Lidington said bluntly that he was 'wrong'.
Asked if Mrs May would try to explain the situation to Mr Trump at the summit on Friday and Saturday, the PM's spokesman said she would hold bilateral talks with other leaders, but had 'none planned' with the US commander-in-chief.
'It is not something that we have requested,' the spokesman said. They added that Mrs May had already spoken to Mr Trump on a 'number of occasions over recent months'.
Senior Tories and Eurosceptics have seized on the extraordinary barbs from the White House with glee - saying it could not be 'brushed off' and Mrs May must reopen negotiations with Brussels. Jacob Rees-Mogg said Mr Trump was stating an 'obvious' fact.
President Trump told reporters outside the White House last night that the deal 'looks great the EU' as he warned about the impact it could have on UK-US trade
The intervention came just hours after the Prime Minister spoke in the Commons to defend the withdrawal agreement, which was signed off by the EU on Sunday
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Mr Trump jibed that the agreement was 'great' for the EU - an institution he has accused of being a protectionist cartel.
In a barb that struck at the heart of Mrs May's vision for the UK's future outside of the bloc, he added: 'I think we have to take a look seriously whether or not the UK is allowed to trade.
'Because right now if you look at the deal, they may not be able to trade with us. And that wouldn't be a good thing. I don't think they meant that.'
The President said he hoped Mrs May would be able to address the problem. 'I don't think that the Prime Minister meant that,' he said. 'And, hopefully, she'll be able to do something about that.
'But, right now, as the deal stands she may not, they may not, be able to trade with the US. And, I don't think they want that at all.'
Downing Street flatly dismissed Mr Trump's attack, saying the package thrashed out with Brussels was 'very clear we will have an independent trade policy'.
No10 also suggested the comments were contradicted by the behaviour of the US administration. 'We have already been laying the groundwork for an ambitious agreement with the US through our joint working groups, which have met five times so far,' a spokesman said.
The row came after Mrs May suffered another agonising day in Westminster, with MPs queuing up to expressing their anger at the mooted settlement with the EU.
She has challenged Jeremy Corbyn to a high-stakes TV debate on Brexit in a bid to turn the tide, and will try to get back on to the front foot today by visiting Wales and Northern Ireland to win public support.
However, defeat is looking near-inevitable in the looming Commons vote on the withdrawal agreement - now confirmed as happening on December 11.
There are suspicions that Mr Trump was influenced by his friend Nigel Farage, who is vehemently opposed to Mrs May's withdrawal agreement - although others point out the former Ukip leader is now mainly a TV and radio pundit.
A welter of Tory rebels pounced on Mr Trump's remarks to bolster their case.
Mr Rees-Mogg told TalkRadio the president was right.
'He has pointed something out that is obvious from reading the withdrawal agreement, that is we won't be able to make trade deals with other countries because we'll be bound into the EU customs union,' he said.
'This agreement, or proposal at this stage, limits the government's ability to trade with the rest of the world freely because we'll be tied into the inefficient, protectionist European system.'
A particularly stinging assault came from former Cabinet minister Sir Michael Fallon, a long-term loyalist.
He said Mrs May's deal was 'the worst of all worlds' and warned it seems 'doomed'.
'It's no use us just brushing that off, saying 'no, no we can do a deal with America', he's the President of the United States, and if he says it's going to be difficult, then it certainly looks like it's going to be difficult.
'This is not a good deal and we need a better deal. If it's possible to get a better deal, to send the negotiators back to Brussels for two or three months, to postpone the actual leaving date for two or three months, I still think that in the long term that would be in the best interest of the country.
'We have to get this right.'
However, Sir Michael did give Downing Street a glimmer of hope by insisting he did not think Mrs May should stand down if she loses the vote next month.
Tory backbencher Michael Fabricant, another MP who has refused to join the Eurosceptic coup attempt against Mrs May, tweeted: 'Trump is spot on. It's a great deal for the EU.'
Former sports minister Tracey Crouch has also come out against the pact, in a sign that moderate opinion in the party is swinging against the PM.
But a No 10 spokesman said: 'The political declaration we have agreed with the EU is very clear we will have an independent trade policy so that the UK can sign trade deals with countries around the world — including the US.'
Mr Lidington said Mr Trump's intervention was 'not unexpected', insisting the UK would be free to do trade deals around the world after Brexit.
But he also seemed to pour cold water on the idea of a deep Transatlantic agreement, saying: 'I think it was always going to be challenging to do a deal with the United States.
'The United States is a tough negotiator, President Trump's always said very plainly 'I put America first'.
'Well, I'd expect the British Prime Minister to put British interests first, but it's going to be a very tough negotiation.'
Digital minister Margot James retweeted a message from an FT journalist saying that Mr Trump is 'openly gunning for a no-deal Brexit' and wanted a 'populist like Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg to finish off Theresa May'.
Mrs May received a hostile reception last night as she told the House of Commons her Brexit deal 'delivers for the British people', and warned that rejecting it would put the UK on the path to division and uncertainty.
She was loudly barracked by MPs as she insisted that no better deal was available than the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on future relations endorsed by EU leaders in Brussels on Sunday.
Labour MPs were invited to attend a special briefing in the Commons with her chief of staff Gavin Barwell and Mr Lidington - but only around 20 bothered to turn up.
Tory MP and leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg criticised the meeting, saying its 'smacks of desperation'.
But Mrs May has stayed resolute in the face of the verbal barrage, earlier telling MPs they had a 'duty' to listen to constituents and do 'what is in the national interest'.
She faced a barrage of attacks from all sides of the House- including from Tory big-hitters Boris Johnson, David Davis and Iain Duncan Smith.
Tory MPs told their leader her deal is 'as dead as a dodo' and does not stand a chance of getting passed.
The DUP - whose ten MPs prop the Tories up in No10 - again condemned the backstop, while Jeremy Corbyn said the package pleased 'nobody'.
Even previous loyalists such as ex-Cabinet minister Sir Michael Fallon joined in the criticism.
Extraordinarily, it took over an hour of brutal attacks from across the chamber before the first MP - Nicky Morgan - spoke in defence of Mrs May.
At one point during the battering, Mrs May ruefully remarked to Conservative Remainer Anna Soubry that she barely seemed to have achieved one task that people claimed was 'impossible' before they were demanding she completed another one.
Gavin Williamson vows Gibraltar 'will always be under the Union flag' amid a row with Spain over the impact of Brexit
The Defence Secretary (pictured on November 20 outside Downing Street) was asked by his Labour counterpart Nia Griffith whether Gibraltar's future was British, even after Brexit, following push back from Spain linked to trade
Gibraltar will 'always be under the Union flag', Gavin Williamson has said, amid concerns over the impact of Brexit.
The Defence Secretary was asked by his Labour counterpart Nia Griffith whether Gibraltar's future was British, even after Brexit, following push back from Spain linked to trade.
Speaking during a debate on the RAF centenary, Ms Griffith said: 'I've been trying extremely hard not to mention the B-word but given the events of the weekend he will be only too aware of the unique importance of Gibraltar, so can he give us absolute assurances its status is not under threat?'
Mr Williamson replied: 'I can give her absolutely categorical reassurance Gibraltar is never under threat.
'Ever since the Royal Marines seized it all those centuries ago, it will always be under the Union flag long into the future so do rest assured we will always look after Gibraltar.'
Mr Williamson also told the debate that Parliament's decision to create the RAF in 1918 as 'one of its finest moments'.
He said: 'The Royal Air Force continuously stands vigilant in terms of protecting our skies here in the United Kingdom, but also they're taking our fight to our enemies abroad.
'Whether that is Daesh in Iraq and Syria, the RAF has been bringing its skills to be able to strike and eliminate that threat combining precision guarded weaponry with unparalleled surveillance intelligence gathering and surveillance capabilities, flying at the highest operational tempo for over a quarter of a century and striking more than 1,750 times.'
He added: 'Sometimes people in this country think that the campaigns that the RAF are fighting are campaigns that are very far away from here and maybe don't have the relevance to the United Kingdom, but actually by dealing with that threat in Iraq and Syria what they're doing is keeping the streets of Great Britain safer by dealing with that threat there.'
Mr Williamson later revealed that he was 'desperate' to see Second World War drama Hurricane, which tells the true of an RAF unit manned mostly by Polish pilots.
He said: 'I'm slightly desperate to see the film Hurricane and I'm not sure if any members of this House have had the opportunity to do so but I was trying to persuade my wife to come with me to the cinema but she wasn't convinced of it but I'm looking forward to it coming on release to DVD.'
The mauling underlines the massive task facing the PM, as she stares down the barrel of almost certain disaster in the House next month.
Just a handful of Tory MPs stood up to defend the deal, but in the marathon Commons session their voices were lost in a sea of criticism.
It came after Mrs May told the Cabinet that the breakthrough in Brussels meant the doubters had been 'proved wrong'.
But Brexiteer Cabinet ministers are still deeply unhappy with package - with Andrea Leadsom and Penny Mordaunt among those on 'resignation watch'.
They have remained stubbornly silent while other colleagues voiced support for the deal.
Other ministers are said to have formed an alliance to push for a Norway-style relationship with the EU if Mrs May's deal falls in the face of massive opposition from scores of Tories, Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems.
Even supportive ministers are in despair at the situation, with one senior source telling MailOnline they feared the Tories were about to experience a 'nuclear meltdown' that could rip the party to shreds.
Despite the deepening woes, No10 said the Cabinet 'congratulated' the PM and 'thanked her for all her hard work on securing a deal'.
In her Commons statement, the PM said: 'Our duty as a Parliament over these coming weeks is to examine this deal in detail, to debate it respectfully, to listen to our constituents and decide what is in our national interest.
'There is a choice which MPs will have to make. We can back this deal, deliver on the vote of the referendum and move on to building a brighter future of opportunity and prosperity for all our people.
'Or this House can choose to reject this deal and go back to square one ... It would open the door to more division and more uncertainty, with all the risks that will entail.'
She insisted that 'the national interest is clear' and 'the British people want us to get on with a deal that honours the referendum'.
Mrs May admitted some MPs were deeply concerned about the Irish border backstop.
But she insisted it was an insurance policy that 'no-one wants to use'.
Sir Michael Fallon, previously among the most loyal of Tory MPs, said: 'Nobody can doubt that the Prime Minister has tried her very best, are we not nonetheless being asked to take a huge gamble here?
'Paying, leaving, surrendering our vote and our veto without any firm commitment to frictionless trade or the absolute right to dismantle external tariffs.
'Is it really wise to trust the future of our economy to a pledge simply to use best endeavours?'
Mrs May responded saying that it was not possible to sign a legally binding free trade agreement with the European Union until the UK had left the EU.
Tory former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said: 'It's very hard to see how this deal can provide certainty to business or anyone else when you have half the Cabinet going around reassuring business that the UK is effectively going to remain in the customs union and in the single market, and the Prime Minister herself continuing to say that we are going to take back control of our laws, vary our tariffs and do as she said just now, real free trade deals.
'They can't both be right. Which is it?'
Conservative former leader Mr Duncan Smith raised questions over the backstop arrangement, asking the Prime Minister: 'Does she recognise the genuine and real concern held on all sides of the House about what would happen if the UK was to be forced into the backstop?'
Mr Duncan Smith said the PM had recognised the UK and EU do not want the backstop arrangement before citing Ireland's desire to avoid a hard border.
He added: 'It makes you wonder why is it in the Withdrawal Agreement at all?'
Tory MP Mark Francois, blasted the deal - and the PM's hopes of getting it through Parliament.
He said: 'The Prime Minister and the whole House knows the mathematics - this will never get through, and even if it did, which it won't, the DUP - on whom we rely for a majority - have said they would then review the confidence and supply agreement, so it's as dead as a dodo.
Theresa May was slammed by a succession of senior Tories including Boris Johnson (left) and David Davis (right)
Remainer Conservative Anna Soubry asked the Prime Minister to give the Commons a plan B as her Brexit deal would be voted down.
She said: 'As it currently stands, the majority of people in this House will not vote in favour of the Prime Minister's deal, despite her very best efforts, so she needs Plan B.
'What is the Prime Minister's Plan B - is it Norway, plus the single market, the customs union, which some of us have been arguing for over two years?'
As she faces the Commons battering, Mrs May joked: 'I'm tempted to say to her that throughout the last 18 months of these negotiations at virtually every stage people have said to me it wasn't possible for me to negotiate a deal with the EU - No sooner do I then people are saying 'well what's the next thing you're going to negotiate'.'
Struggling to defend her deal, Mrs May insisted that 'both the UK and the EU are fully committed to having our future relationship in place by 1st January 2021'.
'And the Withdrawal Agreement has a legal duty on both sides to use best endeavours to avoid the backstop ever coming into force.
'If, despite this, the future relationship is not ready by the end of 2020, we would not be forced to use the backstop. We would have a clear choice between the backstop or a short extension to the Implementation Period.
'If we did choose the backstop, the legal text is clear that it should be temporary and that the Article 50 legal base cannot provide for a permanent relationship.'
Mrs May added: 'Furthermore, as a result of the changes we have negotiated, the legal text is now also clear that once the backstop has been superseded, it shall 'cease to apply'.
'So if a future Parliament decided to then move from an initially deep trade relationship to a looser one, the backstop could not return. I do not pretend that either we or the EU are entirely happy with these arrangements. And that's how it must be - were either party entirely happy, that party would have no incentive to move on to the future relationship.
'But there is no alternative deal that honours our commitments to Northern Ireland which does not involve this insurance policy. And the EU would not have agreed any future partnership without it. Put simply, there is no deal that comes without a backstop, and without a backstop there is no deal.'
But senior Brexiteers ridiculed her chances of getting the package through parliament - saying it was already 'dead'.
More than 90 Tories have publicly committed to opposing the deal, and one jibed that the whips 'don't have enough thumbscrews' to turn the tide.
Another MP pointed out that at least two whips were likely to vote against.
Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom (pictured left) and Aid Secretary Penny Mordaunt (right) are among those on 'resignation watch' after failing to back Mrs May's deal publicly
Is May's deal already sunk? Eighty nine Tories have already come out against it meaning she must find more than 90 votes from Brexiteer rebels, DUP and Labour to get it through the Commons
Theresa May has secured her deal in Brussels but her fight to get it actually in place in time for Brexit day is just beginning.
The 'meaningful vote' promised to MPs will happen on December 11 and is the single biggest hurdle to the Brexit deal happening - and Mrs May' fate as PM.
Mrs May needs at least 318 votes in the Commons if all 650 MPs turns up - but can probably only be confident of around 230 votes.
The number is less than half because the four Speakers, 7 Sinn Fein MPs and four tellers will not take part.
The situation looks grim for Mrs May and her whips: now the deal has been published, 89 of her own MPs and the 10 DUP MPs have publicly stated they will join the Opposition parties in voting No.
This means the PM could have as few as 225 votes in her corner - leaving 410 votes on the other side, a landslide majority 185.
This is how the House of Commons might break down:
Mrs May needs at least 318 votes in the Commons if all 650 MPs turns up - but can probably only be confident of around 230 votes.
Mrs May needs at least 318 votes in the Commons if all 650 MPs turns up - but can probably only be confident of around 230 votes.
The Government (plus various hangers-on)
Who are they: All members of the Government are the so-called 'payroll' vote and are obliged to follow the whips orders or resign. It includes the Cabinet, all junior ministers, the whips and unpaid parliamentary aides.
There are also a dozen Tory party 'vice-chairs and 17 MPs appointed by the PM to be 'trade envoys'.
How many of them are there? 178.
What do they want? For the Prime Minister to survive, get her deal and reach exit day with the minimum of fuss.
Many junior ministers want promotion while many of the Cabinet want to be in a position to take the top job when Mrs May goes.
How will they vote? With the Prime Minister.
European Research Group Brexiteers demanding a No Confidence Vote
Who are they: The most hard line of the Brexiteers, they launched a coup against Mrs May after seeing the divorce. Led by Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker.
How many of them are there: 26
What do they want: The removal of Mrs May and a 'proper Brexit'. Probably no deal now, with hopes for a Canada-style deal later.
How will they vote: Against the Prime Minister.
Other Brexiteers in the ERG
Who are they: There is a large block of Brexiteer Tory MPs who hate the deal but have so far stopped short of moving to remove Mrs May - believing that can destroy the deal instead. They include ex Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith and ex minister Owen Paterson.
Ex ministers like Boris Johnson and David Davis are also in this group - they probably want to replace Mrs May but have not publicly moved against her.
How many of them are there? Around 50.
What do they want? The ERG has said Mrs May should abandon her plans for a unique trade deal and instead negotiate a 'Canada plus plus plus' deal.
This is based on a trade deal signed between the EU and Canada in August 2014 that eliminated 98 per cent of tariffs and taxes charged on goods shipped across the Atlantic.
The EU has long said it would be happy to do a deal based on Canada - but warn it would only work for Great Britain and not Northern Ireland.
How will they vote: Against the Prime Minister.
Remain including the People's Vote supporters
Who are they: Tory MPs who believe the deal is just not good enough for Britain. They include the group of unrepentant Remainers who want a new referendum like Anna Soubry and ex-ministers who quit over the deal including Jo Johnson and Phillip Lee.
How many of them are there: Maybe around 10.
What do they want? To stop Brexit. Some want a new referendum, some think Parliament should step up and say no.
A new referendum would take about six months from start to finish and they group wants Remain as an option on the ballot paper, probably with Mrs May's deal as the alternative.
How will they vote? Against the Prime Minister.
Moderates in the Brexit Delivery Group (BDG) and other Loyalists
Who are they? A newer group, the BDG counts members from across the Brexit divide inside the Tory Party. It includes former minister Nick Boles and MPs including Remainer Simon Hart and Brexiteer Andrew Percy.
There are also lots of unaligned Tory MPs who are desperate to talk about anything else.
How many of them are there? Based on public declarations, about 48 MPs have either said nothing or backed the deal.
What do they want? The BDG prioritises delivering on Brexit and getting to exit day on March 29, 2019, without destroying the Tory Party or the Government. If the PM gets a deal the group will probably vote for it.
It is less interested in the exact form of the deal but many in it have said Mrs May's Chequers plan will not work.
Mr Boles has set out a proposal for Britain to stay in the European Economic Area (EEA) until a free trade deal be negotiated - effectively to leave the EU but stay in close orbit as a member of the single market.
How will they vote? With the Prime Minister.
The DUP
Who are they? The Northern Ireland Party signed up to a 'confidence and supply' agreement with the Conservative Party to prop up the Government.
They are Unionist and say Brexit is good but must not carve Northern Ireland out of the Union.
How many of them are there? 10.
What do they want? A Brexit deal that protects Northern Ireland inside the UK.
How will they vote? Against the Prime Minister on the grounds they believe the deal breaches the red line of a border in the Irish Sea.
Labour Loyalists
Who are they? Labour MPs who are loyal to Jeremy Corbyn and willing to follow his whipping orders.
How many of them are there? Up to 250 MPs depending on exactly what Mr Corbyn orders them to do.
What do they want? Labour policy is to demand a general election and if the Government refuses, 'all options are on the table', including a second referendum.
Labour insists it wants a 'jobs first Brexit' that includes a permanent customs union with the EU. It says it is ready to restart negotiations with the EU with a short extension to the Article 50 process.
The party says Mrs May's deal fails its six tests for being acceptable.
How will they vote? Against the Prime Minister's current deal.
Labour Rebels
Who are they? A mix of MPs totally opposed to Mr Corbyn's leadership, some Labour Leave supporters who want a deal and some MPs who think any deal will do at this point.
How many of them are there? Maybe 10 to 20 MPs but this group is diminishing fast - at least for the first vote on the deal.
What do they want? An orderly Brexit and to spite Mr Corbyn.
How will they vote? With the Prime Minister.
Other Opposition parties
Who are they? The SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, Green Caroline Lucas and assorted independents.
How many of them are there? About 60 MPs.
How will they vote? Mostly against the Prime Minister - though two of the independents are suspended Tories and two are Brexiteer former Labour MPs.
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Main photo article Theresa May is set to snub Donald Trump at the G20 summit after he savaged her Brexit deal as ‘great for the EU’ – and warned it would hit trade with the US.
The PM’s spokesman said there were ‘no plans’ to hold talks with the President at the gathering in...
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