THERESA May lost two of her ministers yesterday as the shock decision to try and find a Brexit compromise with Jeremy Corbyn left her MPs reeling.

Wales Minister Nigel Adams resigned from government just moments before he was due to answer questions in Parliament. He told May she was trying to “cook up a deal with a Marxist”.

Meanwhile, Chris Heaton Harris became the EIGHTH minister to leave the Department for Exiting the EU in less than three years.

In his resignation letter, he told the Prime Minister that the UK should have “honoured the result of the 2016 referendum” and left the EU on March 29.

Heaton also claimed the UK was far more prepared for a hard Brexit than May was letting on: “In my current job, I’ve had the responsibility of helping to coordinate our preparations for if we were to leave the European Union without a negotiated deal.

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“As I believe you know, these preparations are well advanced and whilst I would have preferred to leave the European Union with your deal, I truly believe our country would have swiftly overcome any immediate issues of leaving without a deal and gone on to thrive.”

Heaton-Harris warned the Prime Minister that “every time we seek an extension to this process we diminish faith in our political system and the good people, from all political parties, who serve within it”.

And he added: “I simply cannot support any further extension to Article 50 and this obviously means I cannot stay in Government.”

The Tory leader faced a bruising session at Prime Minister’s Questions, with her own MPs questioning the decision to work with Corbyn.

Lee Rowley reminded May that last week she had described Corbyn as “the biggest threat to our standing in the world, to our defence and to our economy”.

“In her judgment, what now qualifies him for involvement in Brexit?” he asked.

The normally loyal Caroline Johnson asked May: “If it comes to the point when we have to balance the risk of a no-deal Brexit versus the risk of letting down the country and ushering in a Marxist, anti-Semite-led Government, what does she think, at that point, is the lowest risk?”

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Writing in the Telegraph, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, described May’s offer to Corbyn as betrayal.

“The spectre of Corbyn lording it over us in a prime ministerial way as he wrecks Brexit makes my blood run cold and fear for my party and my country.”

Brexiteer Tory MPs were plotting last night on the best way to get the Prime Minister out of Number 10. One motion being circulated even suggested docking the pay of cabinet ministers.

Under Tory party rules May is safe for the moment, after the failure of last December’s vote of no confidence.

It cannot now be repeated for at least eight months. Mark Francois, the ERG’s deputy chair, said he would submit a letter of no confidence anyway.

The only way for her to be kicked out is if Corbyn tables a motion of no confidence in the Government.

In a letter to her MPs, the Prime Minister blamed the ERG and the DUP for her need to ask Corbyn for help.

“The question is, how can we get parliament to ratify the deal? The Government would have preferred to do so based on Conservative and DUP votes.

“But, having tried three times, it is clear that is unlikely to happen,” she wrote.

“I realise some of you will be concerned about the government discussing the way forward with the opposition. However, with some colleagues unwilling to support the government in the division lobbies, this is the only way to deliver the smooth, orderly, Brexit that we promised and for which the British people voted.”

According to research by the Institute for Government, May has now lost more ministers in the first three months of 2019 than any other recent Prime Minister lost in a full year. There are currently eight vacancies in government.