Northumberland MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan has insisted she is not encouraging anyone to take to the streets after suggesting her constituents could riot if Brexit is delayed.

But she said there was genuine concern about the possibility that the UK will not leave the EU on March 29 as planned.

She told ChronicleLive: "I can honestly tell you that the frustration from constituents is very real indeed."

Mrs Trevelyan, the MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, came under fire from critics on social media after she warned her constituents would take to the streets if Brexit was delayed for two years.

Speaking on the Politics Live show on BBC Two, she said: "My constituents would be literally rioting on the streets if we said, don't worry we're going to do absolutely nothing for another two years.

"That would not go down well.

"People do not want a second referendum in Berwick-upon-Tweed".

She was referring to suggestions that Brexit could be significantly delayed, perhaps to allow a second referendum to take place.

MPs will hold a series of votes next week on whether to press ahead with leaving the EU.

Mrs Trevelyan said a shorter delay, simply to ensure the necessary legislation was in place, might be a different matter.

But she was criticised on social media, with one person claiming her words were "encouragement or endorsement".

She responded: "It certainly is not encouragement. It is what I am hearing from my constituents - levels of frustration at the prospect of delay or stopping Brexit high."

Mrs Trevelyan told another Twitter user: "I have had more views shared with me in my postbag and out and about than anything else in recent weeks and with levels of frustration which have increased."

She said constituents were telling her 'We voted to leave, please take us out. Dont keep asking and ignore our voice. Deliver on what you promised'.

The MP is a supporter of Brexit and a member of the European Research Group, the group of Conservative MPs which has been pushing for a "hard" Brexit or a clean break with the EU.

Brexit is due to take place on March 29 but there is growing speculation that it may have to be delayed. This could mean a short delay, in order to finalise the legal arrangements, but it could also mean a lengthy delay while the UK figures out what sort of Brexit it wants, or even whether to go ahead with leaving.

Prime Minister Theresa May is to put her proposed Brexit withdrawal agreement to a vote of MPs again next week, after it was overwhelmingly rejected by the House of Commons in January.

If MPs reject the deal again then a second vote will be held, probably the next day, asking MPs whether they wish to leave the EU with no deal at all.

If MPs also reject this proposal the a third vote will be held on Thursday March 14, when MPs will decide whether to delay Brexit.

Mrs May appears to believe that a delay should last no longer than three months.

At some point during the process, backbench Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson, the MP for Sedgefield, are expected to table their proposal to hold a second referendum.

The Labour front bench is expected officially to back their proposal. It could also win support from some Conservatives who back Mrs May's deal, as their proposal is to allow the deal to be approved by the Commons. The public would then have the final say in a referendum which would also include the option of staying in the EU.

There is speculation that Tory MPs who previously opposed Mrs May's deal could support it next week, partly because it now appears that the alternative is a lengthy delay or a possible second referendum.

Car giants Toyota and BMW have issued stark warnings about the impact a no-deal Brexit would have on their plants in the UK.

The future of the Mini factory at Cowley, near Oxford, would be thrown into doubt if there is a no-deal scenario, parent company BMW said.

The German firm said production of Minis could be moved to Holland if the UK crashed out of the European Union without a deal on March 29.

And Toyota warned that a no-deal Brexit would make it "extremely complicated" for the Japanese firm to build new models in the UK.