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Jeremy Hunt was shouted down by loud Brexiteer hecklers during a Tory leadership hustings yesterday. Shocking footage shows an audience member attack the foreign secretary over his Brexit

plan. In the footage, captured by ITV News, the heckler can be seen pointing furiously at Mr Hunt.

The audience member tells him: "How could you have someone like Rory Stewart in your cabinet who is not prepared for no deal."

Mr Hunt immediately tried to quell his concerns, promising that his cabinet would keep no-deal on the table.

He told the audience: "In my cabinet, we would be voting to keep no-deal on the table, that would be government policy."

The leadership candidate has repeatedly insisted that the UK "will leave without a deal" if there was no prospect of reaching an agreement by October.

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However, he would be open to an extension to Brexit talks if a potential deal was in the works.

His leadership rival Boris Johnson has promised that the UK must leave the EU on 31 October "deal or no deal".

However, he downplayed this possiblity earlier this week, claiming the chances of a no-deal Brexit happening are a "million to one".

This prompted Mr Hunt to ask his rival Mr Johnson to "be straight with people" about what a no-deal Brexit would mean.

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The foreign secretary said the "million to one" claim about the chance of a no-deal "flies in the face of reality".

In response, Mr Johnson criticised Mr Hunt's suggestion that the current Brexit deadline could be delayed again.

He said: "Anybody who proposes any further delay is simply going to end up eroding trust in politics, eroding people's confidence in our democratic institutions further."

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Jeremy Hunt or Boris Johnson will be announced as the winner of the Tory Party leadership race on 23 July.

In response to the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, the Welsh and Scottish governments have said they will work together to try to keep the UK in the European Union.

First ministers Mark Drakeford and Nicola Sturgeon also called on the next prime minister to "change course and rule out" leaving the EU without a deal.

They both said they were becoming "increasingly alarmed" by "hard-line rhetoric about a no-deal Brexit".

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