Theresa May’s Brexit deal WILL be put before MPs and is ‘very likely to have to be ratified by Parliament’

THERESA May will put her eventual Brexit deal with the EU to MPs to agree it, government lawyers have revealed.

The PM’s thinking emerged during a high court battle over whether Parliament should be able to sign off the triggering of Britain’s ‘Article 50’ departure process.

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It was “very likely” that the breakaway agreement - expected by May 2019 - would have to be ratified by Parliament, the Lord Chief Justice was told yesterday.

James Eadie QC was defending Mrs May’s decision to rely on a Royal prerogative powers to begin exit talks by the end of next May without MPs’ say so.

Insisting the final deal would go before MPs, Mr Eadie said: “The Government view at the moment it that it is very likely that any such agreement would be subject to ratification”.

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The PM’s decision is under attack in a historic legal challenge launched by a group of campaigners led by a millionaire hedge fund boss.

If they win, Brexit could be delayed by many months.

The four day court case ended yesterday and judges promised to give a ruling “as quickly as possible”.