Brexiteers fury as Cabinet Remainers storm ahead with plans to tie us to EU with customs ‘partnership’

REMAINERS have sparked fury today with a renewed push to keep a customs deal with the EU on the table after Brexit.

Leave-backing MPs lashed out after Greg Clark said ministers still hadn't officially ruled out Theresa May's plans for a customs "partnership".

Today Mrs May wrote in the Sun that we WOULD get out of the EU's Customs Union once we're out of the bloc.

But worried Brexiteers think she could try to strong-arm ministers into backing a slightly tweaked version of the same thing - and will totally fudge it.

Today Business Secretary Greg Clark said that a deal to replace the customs relationship would be of "huge importance", and warned that thousands of jobs could be lost if we didn't do so.

He said it would "take some time" to put a new system in place and hinted that it  was "possible" it could take many years after we leave the bloc to sort out - leaving Leave-backers fuming.

His comments come after a cabinet row this week over the issue saw Mrs May forced to put the issue on the backburner, as she didn't have enough support around the table for her plans.

It was thought that opposition from David Davis, Boris Johnson, and new Home Secretary Sajid Javid had killed off the idea, and would force No10 to think again.

Today Greg Clark's resistance was backed up by fellow Remainer allies - including the recently resigned Amber Rudd, and Tory rebels Nicky Morgan and Anna Soubry.

The ex-Home Secretary wrote on Twitter: "Greg Clark quite right, making the case clearly and yes, passionately for a Brexit that protects existing jobs and future investment."

Ex-minister Ms Morgan added on BBC Radio 5 Live that people who "shout loudest" don't represent most Tories.

Eurosceptic MPs are furious with the plans to keep us close to Europe.

Leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees Mogg said today it was another example of "Project Fear" taking over again.

"The Prime Minister was extremely clear in her article in the Sun on Sunday this morning, saying that we would be out of the customs union and out of the single market and that we would have control of our money, our borders and our laws... I think it would be very odd if the Prime Minister were to write one thing for the Sun on Sunday and for another thing to be going on in Downing Street."

And he insisted: "We will have control of goods coming into this country - we will set our own laws, our own policies, our own regulations, and therefore we will determine how efficient the border is coming into us."

And one cabinet source told the Sunday Telegraph that it would be "unimaginable for the prime minister to press on with the hybrid model after it has been torn apart by members of her own Brexit committee".

All EU members are automatically a part of the Customs Union, where there are fewer rules and checks on goods that are transported around the area.