FRANCE last night published their doomsday No Deal scenario planning just hours before Theresa May’s arrival at the EU Council - detailing new checks at Calais and a visa scheme for British tourists.

The UK has declared it would automatically protect the rights of French people living in the UK and do all it can to ease congestion at Channel ports.

But an explosive draft law published in Paris seems designed to cause maximum pain to Brits living in France short of kicking them out.

Brits would automatically become third party nationals that bars them from holding jobs reserved for EU citizens and restrict their access to healthcare and welfare.

And the “irregular” legal position would mean UK citizens would be “obliged to present a visa to enter French territory and to hold a residence permit to remain there”.

It adds: “British citizens with a work contract under French law with a French employer could be asked for a document authorising them to work in France”.

And it warned that French ports like Calais would see the “the reinstating of formalities/controls on goods and passengers to and from the UK”.

The new law if passed would authorise the “construction of or emergency installation of premises, installations, or infrastructures, of ports, railways & airports, required by the establishment of checks of goods and passengers to and from the UK”.

No Deal would also see “the reinstatement of veterinary and phytosanitary controls at the borders of the EU for live animals, plants and animal and plant products from the UK.”

However the document left the door open to cutting a bilateral deal with the UK to try ease the chaos.