The decision of May to open the negotiations to formally trigger the country’s exit from the European Union will come as a blow to Remain campaigners, who had been hoping to use parliament to delay or halt Brexit.
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Although MPs would have a say on the timing of talks there was no legal requirement to consult Parliament before Article 50 was activated, he said.
A Downing Street source said the report was “speculation” but did not reject it out of hand and said May was “committed to delivering on the verdict the public gave”.
Since Britain voted for Brexit on June 23 there’s been much debate about whether the result is binding for the government or advisory.
The suggestion is that triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will be delayed and delayed for so long that the formal commencement of a two-year negotiated exit will never take place.
The Mail on Sunday described May’s Chequers’ meeting on Wednesday as a “back to school” cabinet meeting during which she was expected to order feuding Brexit Ministers to end any turf wars.
Downing Street has said MPs will be given “a say” on the process for the UK’s departure from the EU.
The process that will take place before a formal United Kingdom exit has caused a backlash in parliament after it emerged that May will not give MPs a vote before invoking article 50.
But the spokesman declined several opportunities to say whether MPs will be given a vote in the Commons on triggering Article 50, when pressed on the issue by reporters.
It will be her first meeting after became Prime Minister, it will leads to sharp appreciation to May’s efforts to assure restless Eurosceptics in her Conservative party she was on a way to deliver as exit from the European Union “and will not fob them off with Brexit-lite”.
“The Prime Minister is very clear there will be no second referendum”, said a Number 10 spokesman.
The Prime Minister is keen for her Government to present a united front on Brexit before she flies to China for a G20 summit next weekend, where she will press other world leaders to do trade deals with the UK once it leaves the EU.
He said: “From day one I have seen solicitors writing articles that looked incredibly cogent but it is a straight forward tactic to delay things and I do not agree with that”.
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He suggested a special relationship with Britain was more than possible, although one topic that will be hard to broker would be dropping freedom of movement for European Union citizens in return for access to the single market. Once it is invoked, it would be up to the European Union, and not the United Kingdom, if it wished to change its mind.
