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Labour's Emily Thornberry tore into squirming Tories over Brexit today as she claimed they were like a bad World Cup team - with no respect for the manager.

MPs fell into hysterics as Jeremy Corbyn's stand-in branded the Tory civil war "Reservoir Dogs remade by the Chuckle Brothers" at a fiesty PMQs .

"I may know very little about football," said the Shadow Foreign Secretary - who was once embroiled in a row for "sneering" at an England flag.

"But even I can see that England's progress so far in the World Cup shows what can be achieved when all the individual players work effectively as a team, when there's a clear game plan and when they're all working together and of course when everyone respects and listens to the manager.

"What lessons could the England team teach this shambles of a government?"

Theresa May's deputy David Lidington prompted laughter at Prime Minister's Questions too - by insisting there was a “clear plan” with “full support of the squad”.

He called on Labour to show its own plan for Brexit , which he claimed was the “best kept secret” in British politics.

And he jokingly offered to buy the Islington South MP a St George's flag himself.

But quoting the US President, Ms Thornberry said: "Even Donald Trump can see they’re in turmoil - and he hasn’t even got to Britain yet."

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PMQs was a rare battle of the deputies after Theresa May travelled to the NATO summit in Brussels.

Mrs May was replaced by her deputy David Lidington , leading Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry to take Jeremy Corbyn's place for Labour.

The pair clashed after Tory Brexiteers vowed "guerrilla warfare" and co-ordinated resignations to derail Theresa May's new, softer plan for Brexit.

Theresa May agreed her plan at Chequers on Friday, prompting the resignation of Cabinet big beasts Boris Johnson and David Davis.

Theresa May's Chequers Brexit plan explained The UK's current Brexit plan is based on a deal Theresa May drew up at Chequers, her country retreat, in July 2018. At the time it was seen as a major shift to soft Brexit - prompting hard-Leaver Cabinet ministers David Davis and Boris Johnson to resign. The 'Facilitated Customs Arrangement' is a bid to solve the biggest problem of Brexit - how to stop a hard border between Northern Ireland and either the EU, or the rest of the UK. It would keep the UK closely aligned with the EU in a new "free trade area" for goods. Under this plan, the UK would share a "common rulebook" with Brussels for goods, including agricultural and food products. Britain would also collect some, but not all, customs tariffs on the EU's behalf. Parliament would technically keep the right to block future rules. But Tory Brexiteers said this olive branch would useless in practice. They forced Theresa May to amend the plan to say the EU should collects tariffs on the UK's behalf. Mrs May insisted this didn't scupper her plan. But EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier disagreed, and has continued to suggest there will be a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. Remainers and Labour have also opposed the Chequers plan, saying it leaves Britain half-in-half-out of the EU in the "worst of all worlds". With a November deadline to agree a deal with the EU looming, and the plan facing a vote in Parliament after that, the UK is now ramping up plans to leave in March 2019 with no deal.

Brexiteers say the plan to share EU rules on imported goods will run up the "white flag" and keep Britain chained to Brussels.

But Labour Remainers currently oppose the plan too because they say that by not including services as well as goods, it doesn't go far enough.

Ms Thornberry claimed the Chequers proposal was a "total delusion", a "half-baked customs union" and a "customs union in all but name" - but without covering the vital services industry.

She added it was a "dog’s Brexit which will satisfy no one, which will not fly in Europe."

Mr Lidington insisted that in services, "regulatory flexibility matters most" and as there had been swifter change over the last 30 years, there was a higher risk of "unwelcome" laws on services from the EU in future.

He called on Labour to rule out a second referendum on the EU.

And he said: "The country made a decision and we should now get on with the task in hand - that’s what the government is doing."