The government is set to release a long-awaited blueprint for how it envisages the UK’s future relationship with the EU to look.
The white paper, detailing a “comprehensive vision” is expected to be the most detailed set of proposals to date on how the government wants Brexit to work.
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said the new EU withdrawal proposals will stay true to the referendum result while backing business.
He said the plan, hammered out at a Cabinet summit at Chequers, means the UK can continue frictionless cross-border trade with the EU in goods while setting its own tariffs for dealings with the rest of the world.
The EU has warned Prime Minister Theresa May that the plans must be workable in order to avoid a no-deal scenario.
The proposals have already caused outrage among many Leave supporters, and prompted the resignations of Mr Raab's predecessor as Brexit secretary, David Davis, and ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson, from the Cabinet.
In a foreword to the white paper to be published on Thursday, Mr Raab is expected to say the plan will ensure the UK is free to pursue global trade deals, and avoid any hard border in Northern Ireland.
"The white paper details our proposal in all of these areas, setting out a comprehensive vision for the future relationship.
"It is a vision that respects the result of the referendum, and delivers a principled and practical Brexit."
The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the proposals must conform to EU rules and not create extra costs as he told US business leaders to prepare for a no deal scenario.
Ahead of the release of the white paper, Mr Barnier told the US chamber of commerce: "We will look carefully at each and any proposal of UK, but these proposals must be workable."
However, Mr Barnier said: "Only the combination of the single market and the customs union makes frictionless trade possible.
"Outside of the customs union there need to be procedures and customs controls.
"And outside of the single market you necessarily have controls to check compliance with European standards.
"As a consequence there will be no business as usual because of the Brexit.
"And we should all get ready for all scenarios, including a no-deal scenario."
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Meanwhile, Tory MP Maria Caulfield, who resigned as a party vice chairperson in protest at Mrs May's withdrawal stance, said Brexiteers were being held in contempt by a "small cabal" in Downing Street.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph she said Mrs May's plan was "catastrophically bad" and a "disaster for the Conservative Party".
