THERESA May has told the Cabinet her Chequers plan for a Brexit deal will work because some EU leaders are beginning to crack.

Differences are finally emerging among the 27 other leaders who have been unified until now, the PM told her top table on Monday as she implored them to “hold our nerve”.

And she believes the UK can exploit them to win goods-only access to the single market.

In a bid to cheer up her Cabinet during her update to them on last week’s disastrous Salzburg summit, the PM told them: “Some heads of government want to be more constructive than the commission”.

But pinning the UK's hopes on an uprising by Scandinavian and Eastern states along with the Netherlands and Belgium against France and Germany’s axis with the EU Commission is seen as very high risk by senior ministers.

Despite rumblings from smaller states such as Hungary, a revolt failed to materialise at in the Austria town when leaders unanimously agreed to crush Mrs May’s Chequers plan.

A Cabinet source: “The noises coming from the member states themselves are certainly better than what’s coming out of the commission.

“But it’s a far cry to then say we’ll be able to win them all over.

“Theresa is doubling up on where she already is and it’s looking like a huge bet now.”

The development came as senior hardline Tory Brexiteers also turned up the pressure on Mrs May to dump her Chequers plan.

A senior figure in the European Research Group revealed all of its 8 odd members are ready to vote down her plan in Parliament.

Former minister Mark Francois told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme: "If push really comes to shove, and they try and push Chequers through the House of Commons, then I and my colleagues will vote against it”.

A senior EU diplomat also last night told The Sun that Mrs May would not get EU leaders to budge and accept her bid for goods only access to the single market.

The diplomat said: "They don’t believe us on the Single Market. They think it’s b****ks.

“They don’t understand the argument that if we give too much flexibility the whole thing will fall apart because everyone will want an a la carte deal. We’ve said this over and over again but they don’t want to hear it."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that a Brexit deal “might already be achievable in October", but only if the UK makes some big decisions. Ms Merkel warned: “Playing for time, I believe, also doesn’t help the business community, because the business community needs clarity.

“We have six to eight weeks of very hard work ahead of us in which we have to take the political decisions. A lot depends on what Britain really wants”

She added the UK can’t belong to one part of the Single Market but “not to the other three”.