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Brexiteer Frank Field has became the latest Labour party MP to lose a confidence vote after siding with the Government to pass Brexit laws.

The veteran Eurosceptic, who has represented Birkenhead on Merseyside since 1979, said some in his constituency Labour Party (CLP) were seeking to "misrepresent" his votes in the Commons as support for the Tories so they could get rid of him.

Mr Field said his votes a fortnight ago had instead been on behalf of "millions of Labour voters - mainly in parts of the country that have long been neglected by the elites - who gave politicians a clear instruction to take the country out of the EU".

The CLP on Friday passed a no-confidence vote in Mr Field, which followed a similar motion against his fellow "Labour Leaver" Kate Hoey in her Vauxhall seat in London.

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They and two other Labour Brexiteers, John Mann and Graham Stringer, rebelled to back the Government over the Trade Bill, with their votes crucial in passing the legislation by the narrowest of margins.

Their critics argue that had Conservatives lost the vote it could have forced Theresa May to call a general election.

Field's constituency of Birkenhead voted leave in the referendum with 51.7per cent in favour of Brexit and 48.3 per cent voting to remain.

He said that during his 39 years as an MP he had "always voted to free our country from the tightening stranglehold of the EU" on behalf of working-class Labour voters and it was important to do so now.

He added: "For most, if not all, of those votes I did so alongside Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell.

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"It would have been a betrayal of the principles I have held for my entire political life, had I voted against the legislation two weeks ago."

He added that both Labour and the Tories committed themselves to honouring the Leave vote during the 2017 election, meaning "such legislation would have been introduced by whichever party was in power".

Laura Parker, national co-ordinator of Momentum, had called for the deselection of all four rebels, saying: "There is no room for Labour MPs who side with the reactionary Tory establishment."

Like Ms Hoey, Mr Field faces the risk of being deselected after losing the confidence of local members.

The vote against him was sparked by a letter from the Bidston and St James branch secretary Brian Parsons.

Mr Parsons attacked the "actions and total disregard" of Mr Field in supporting the Conservatives, which he said could potentially damage support for Labour in any upcoming election.

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He said: "For whatever reason, Mr Field is refusing to assist his parliamentary colleagues in removing one of the cruelest and most savage Tory administrations this country has produced, including the Thatcher government."

But Mr Field dismissed the idea that he was backing the Tories or "getting in the way of an early general election", saying: "This is an absurd suggestion that is being used as an excuse by certain people in the Birkenhead Constituency Labour Party who are fixated on the idea of trying to get rid of me.

"They would have found some other excuse, had it not been this topic, as they're already lining up their alternative candidate."