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Theresa May faces the Brexit Committee on Wednesday afternoon, and one Labour MP has predicted a bruising confrontation between the Prime Minister and Brexiteers like Jacob Rees-Mogg. Mary

Creagh, Labour MP for Wakefield, claims that the committee meeting see Mrs May "come under huge pressure form hardcore Leavers".  Several prominent Brexiteer MPs are expected to

raise questions over concerns that the Prime Minister could catipulate to Remainers over the customs union. The Government faces an embarassing defeat in the House of Commons this Thursday

following an overwhelming loss in the House of Lords last week. This follows reports on the weekend that a series of humiliations in the House of Commons could force the Prime Minister take

a softer line on Brexit. Mary Creagh told Sky News: "Thursday's vote will see most of the Tory whips telling people to go away, but there will be Tory enthusiasts coming in and

voting on that motion. "The size of that rebellion will be indicative of the problems May will face in June after the European Council, or in October when she comes back with the

withdrawal bill. "It will be a critical week and I have no doubt that during the Brexit committee on Wednesday she will come under huge pressure from the hardcore Leavers in her

party." Jacob Rees-Mogg, a leading Tory Brexiteer who is one of the committee’s members, is expected to grill the embattled leader on the recent speculation of a Brexit backtrack. 

MAYOR: WHY NORTH-EAST'S FUTURE DEPENDS ON CUSTOMS UNION > I have no doubt that during the Brexit committee she will come under > huge pressure from the hardcore Leavers in her 

party >  > Mary Creagh Mrs May will also face calls from leading cabinet figures Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox to abandon her preferred form of a customs deal with the EU.

The showdown will see the trio tell the PM that a customs partnership would be unworkable. This morning, Downing Street vehemently insisted there would be no backsliding  over leaving the

customs union with Brussels. Cabinet minister Sajid Javid tweeted that the referendum gave "clear instructions" to leave the customs union and accused some of seeing it as a

"kind of post-Brexit comfort blanket".