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Theresa May’s most senior ministers are deciding whether to back the draft EU withdrawal agreement in a crucial cabinet meeting.
The meeting inside 10 Downing Street is thought to be over-running by as much as two hours.
The prime minister is expected to make a statement afterwards.
Tory MPs and opposition parties have lined up to criticise what is thought to be in the draft text, which has not yet been published.
Earlier Mrs May said it would allow the UK government to take back control of borders, laws and money.
But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the UK would be stuck in an “indefinite half-way house without any real say” over the rules.
Criticism of the draft agreement has focused on ways to prevent a hard border in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party – which supports Mrs May’s government in key votes – warned of “consequences” if there is a deal that “breaks up the United Kingdom”.
BBC