THE EU will agree to give Britain tariff-free access to the single market because it benefits them too, the Brexit Secretary has insisted.

Cabinet minister David Davis revealed the government will push for open free trade to continue during the formal departure talks.

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It is the second demand to be made on Brussels to emerge, after Theresa May’s immigration controls red line was unveiled on Thursday.

Mr Davis said: “What we will seek to do is ideally have a tariff-free access.

“We will be negotiating over an issue I suspect is in the interest of other members of the EU and others to get a good trading relationship in the long run.”

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The demand is likely to spark the biggest row of Brexit as a series of European leaders have insisted single market means accepting free movement.

Mr Davis also reaffirmed that there will be no “hard” border with Ireland after fears of tighter restrictions were prompted by June’s referendum result.

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On a visit to Belfast yesterday, Mr Davis said last night: “We are clear we do not want a hard border - no return to the past - and no unnecessary barriers to trade.”

Theresa May and Philip Hammond also yesterday began a major new Brexit push to sell Britain to the world ahead of her first major international summit.

The PM was joined by the Chancellor to kick it off at a West Midlands event where they unveiled a £45m government boost to British-made car exports. And tomorrow (SAT), the pair fly to the G20 summit in China to make their pitch to the globe’s 19 other most powerful leaders.

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Branding Britain as “one of the greatest trading nations”, Mrs May insisted leaving the EU will be an “opportunity to embrace new markets as we export British innovation and expertise to the world”.

Mrs May and Mr Hammond announced a £45m cash injection to expand an automotive business zone near Coventry to help export British made cars around the world.