Jess Phillips hopes to become Labour leader by pledging to "speak truth" and unlike Jeremy Corbyn, who only went as far as pledging "straight talking honest politics", to "win power".

The Labour MP sought to show her supposed election-winning candour over the weekend, as Andrew Marr asked her how she would deal with the fact that by the time she aspires to take over her party, Brexit will have happened — and it will be many years before anything can be done about that.

Ms Phillips, one of the scores of MPs who argued against Brexit during the referendum and continued to fight it at every turn in their desperation for a referendum, insisted that she was "not going to just change my mind on that". She made that clear despite acknowledging most of her constituents in Birmingham Yardley voted Leave, and so concluded that "what we have to do is wait and see".

Given how risible "wait and see" proved to be as an answer when Mr Corbyn used it to explain much of his Brexit policy during the election, the woman vying to succeed him could not expect to get away with the same level of clarity.

Having made clear that she was not backing down on her past support for Remain and a referendum, the logical conclusion rightly put by her interviewer was that she would later fight to rejoin the European Union.