Caroline Flint backed Remain in the referendum, but her Don Valley constituency overwhelming voted to Leave

An attempt to bring back a version of Theresa May’s Brexit deal by Hallowe’en was launched by a cross-party group of MPs yesterday.

The group, nicknamed MPs for a Deal, is calling for a fresh vote on Mrs May’s deal as amended after cross-party talks. It includes Labour’s Stephen Kinnock and Caroline Flint, Sir Norman Lamb of the Liberal Democrats, and the former Tory leadership candidate Rory Stewart.

Mr Kinnock said at the group’s launch in Westminster that the latest iteration of Mrs May’s deal, which never saw the light of day after she was ousted, was a “compelling proposal”.

He called for the draft to be published, saying: “We have something here which is the basic foundation of a perfectly pragmatic deal that we