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A red-on-red Brexit clash broke out on live TV today after Labour MP compared a colleague to Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Backbenchers Chris Leslie and Caroline Flint plunged into the spat as she accused him of trying to "overturn" the EU referendum result.

Both ex-Shadow Cabinet ministers campaigned for Remain.

But while Ms Flint says Labour should respect the result, Mr Leslie wants Britain to remain as close to EU rules as possible to stop economic disaster.

Mr Leslie is one of a string of Labour MPs who are set to vote this week to stay in the European Economic Area (EEA) - which means sticking to many EU rules.

Clashing with Ms Flint on the BBC's Sunday Politics, he sniped: "Caroline is starting to sound a little bit like Jacob Rees-Mogg with the notion that we should go for Brexit at all costs."

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Old Etonian Mr Rees-Mogg is the leader of the Tories' Hard Brexit-backing European Research Group.

Ms Flint snapped back: "When you’re losing the argument you go to desperate accusations."

And she said "hardline remainers" were trying to "undermine" the outcome of the 2016 referendum.

MPs will vote this week on whether to overturn 15 Lords amendments to Theresa May's flagship EU Withdrawal Bill .

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The amendments, if upheld, will ensure a much softer Brexit with ties to the EU's single market and customs union.

Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said pro-EU Tory MPs had a chance to alter the direction of the negotiations if they voted with him.

"If Tory MPs who care about these amendments vote with us there is a real chance for Parliament to change the course of the Brexit negotiations and bring some order where there is real chaos," he told the BBC.