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Labour's Wes Streeting delivered a barnstorming speech to the Commons as he urged MPs to vote for no confidence in the Tory government.

The Ilford North MP said the Tories are out of touch with "the reality of the consequences for the people we represent and the reality of the conditions people are already living in in this country".

Despite being a vocal supporter for a second referendum, he represents a seat where 53.3% voted to Leave the EU.

Mr Streeting told the Commons that his constituents who voted Leave were "promised something better".

Parodying the assurances of the hard l Brexiteers he described how promises made in the referendum were swiftly forgotten and instead talk has turned to surviving without a deal.

"They say, 'we will survive, there will still be food on the table, there will still be mars bars and packets of crisps', but that was not the promise made to people during the referendum.

"The people were promised something better. Just as the rats have deserted the sinking ship of the Cabinet, so the promises went with them," he said.

Mr Streeting, who easily batted away Tory interventions, laid the problems facing the country squarely at the door of the government saying that many of those issues blamed on the EU were, in fact, "made in Britain."

He said: "It is this place that is responsible for the gross inequality of the country, and it is the party opposite that has prosecuted the policies that have led to half a million more children living in poverty than when we left Government nine years ago.

"It is the party opposite that has left 4 million working people living in poverty. It is the party opposite that has pursued punitive benefits policies resulting in people sleeping rough not just on the streets of our constituencies, but on the doorsteps and entrances to this Palace, literally dying under our feet. Despite that, it takes not a shred of responsibility and makes not a single offer of hope."

He concluded by saying that on the argument of austerity the public had also been duped.

He said: "Nine years ago, we were told we had to tighten our belt, that things would be hard and that difficult choices would have to be made, and the majority of people believed and accepted that and voted in the way they thought best.

"Nine years on, it is the experience of people who use and rely on our public services that things are demonstrably worse than they were nine years ago."