Two months on, Brexit plan is still unclear

But it was sacked former Conservative Education Secretary Nicky Morgan who pointed out that “two words” were missing from the statement – Single Market and whether the United Kingdom would remain part of it.

There were shouts of “waffle” and – from the SNP – of “is that it?”.

The prime minister was accused of backsliding on promises made by the Vote Leave campaign, after she cast doubt on the effectiveness of a system admitting people on the basis of their skills and refused to commit an extra £100mn to the NHS.

“It seems we’re not going to have a points-based immigration system and we’re not going to have any extra money for the NHS and we’re not going to have any reduction in Value-Added Tax on fuel”.

Cabinet Ministers including Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and International Development Secretary Priti Patel are among those who voiced their support.

But at least seven lawsuits have been brought to force the government to accept that parliament should decide whether Britain should trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the formal exit process, rather than the prime minister.

As former Ukip leader Nigel Farage suggested yesterday she was betraying Brexit voters, No 10 issued a statement saying it would devise an immigration system that gave the government more control than a points-based system.

THERESA May has lashed out at backers of an Australia-style immigration system to insist it would not control numbers.

And he went further than Mrs May’s careful tightrope-walking on the issue, by describing membership of Single Market as “very improbable” without firm restrictions on immigration.

“When are they going to tell us how they’re going to deliver, for example, free trade for British businesses while also opposing immigration controls – let alone how they’re going to address the red lines Labour has demanded on the protection of workers’ rights and guarantees for European Union citizens?” I think that’s what the British people want. “There are various ways in which you can do that”, Mrs May said.

The spokeswoman said the way controls would work had yet to be determined.

May’s concern, apparently, is that a points-based system wouldn’t exclude enough people, because anyone who gets enough points automatically gets in.