ES News email The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday - Friday plus breaking news updates Enter your email address Continue Please enter an email address Email address is invalid Fill out this field Email address is invalid You already have an account. Please log in Register with your social account or click here to log in I would like to receive lunchtime headlines Monday - Friday plus breaking news alerts, by email Update newsletter preferences

A fresh bout of Labour infighting over Brexit erupted today as party chiefs met before a conference showdown over a second referendum.

Outspoken MP Neil Coyle launched an attack on a fellow Labour politician as he backed scrapping Brexit altogether.

Mr Coyle, whose Bermondsey and Old Southwark seat is a Labour/Lib-Dem

marginal, wrote on PoliticsHome: “Voters need clarity. Labour’s constructive ambiguity should have ended long before the EU elections. I support revoking Article 50 and have run my re-selection campaign advocating that approach, winning the backing of members.”

Mr Coyle also criticised Stephen Kinnock who says he and dozens of other Labour MPs are ready to back a tweaked version of the withdrawal deal which former PM Theresa May agreed with the EU.

“It is astonishing to see a small number of Labour colleagues pretending that an agreement would be anything other than a downgrade for their constituents and the wider UK compared to full EU membership,” Mr Coyle said.

At Labour’s autumn conference, which starts on Saturday in Brighton, Jeremy Corbyn will come under huge pressure to agree it should campaign for Remain in a second referendum.

The party’s National Executive Committee, was meeting today amid warnings that Labour’s “moderate” student wing could be replaced by a more Left-wing body.