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Caroline Flint has claimed she will throw her weight behind Theresa May's Brexit deal, and urged her Labour colleagues to reflect on "why you would not support a Brexit deal". Ms Flint, who voted Remain but has since accepted the result, also took issue with how politicians and supporters of the People's Vote campaign had treated Brexit voters. Speaking to Sophy Ridge on Sky News, the Labour Brexiteer claimed that "hardline Remainers" had been both "patronising and offensive" to those who want to leave the EU. The latest remarks from the Labour MP come as a growing number of backbenchers break ranks with Corbyn to back a deal with the EU.

Last week, the Prime Minister made a bold appeal directly to Labour voters calling on them to back her "decent, moderate and patriotic" Tory party. At September's Labour conference, Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said: “If Theresa May brings back a deal that fails our tests – and that looks increasingly likely - Labour will vote against it. No ifs, no buts." This appeared to confirm that Labour will whip its MPs to vote against any deal that Mrs May brings back to the Commons. However, Ms Flint put her support behind a "reasonable deal" if the other options on thetable were a second referendum or a no deal scenario. She said: "The question for my Labour colleagues is why wouldn’t you support a deal?

Flint criticised how politicians and supporters of the People's Vote had treated Brexit voters

These politicians don’t understand them and their choice of words is both patronising and offensive Caroline Flint

"Why would you stand alongside Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg who want us to crash out? "That doesn’t serve country’s interests or Labour’s interests." She also attacked how Remainers had continued to belittle Brexit voters. Ms Flint told Ridge: "These politicians don’t understand them and their choice of words is both patronising and offensive. "Even on social media, whenever I have stood up for the people I represent andl let’s remember every region of England outside of London voted Leave, you immediately get trolled and shut down. "The language used by politicians and those involved in the People’s Vote campaign and those that want to overturn the referendum is patronising. "They say the Brexit voters were ill-informed, uneducated, that they didn’t know what they were voting for.