A string of ministers opposed to a no-deal Brexit are expected to resign the government rather than wait to be sacked by the new PM.

Sir Alan Duncan has quit as a minister at the Foreign Office, Downing Street sources confirmed, on a day of several reportedly imminent resignations.

Probable PM told he is on collision course with parliament unless he drops hardline agenda.

Ex-Foreign Office minister says plotters will ‘push party into oblivion’.