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A Labour MP caused the Question Time audience to erupt into laughter by saying that her party had been "consistent" with regards to Brexit.

Anneliese Dodds, who was an MEP before becoming MP for Oxford East last summer, told the audience that her party was not divided when it came to the issue of leaving the EU.

Remain-supporting Tory MP Anna Soubry described Brexit as "this is the biggest crisis our country has faced since the second world war."

And she argued that the problems were made worse by divisions in government and opposition.

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"The problem is our cabinet, our government is divided and to make it worse we have an opposition that is even more divided," she said.

But Ms Dodds, who is a member of the party's frontbench insisted that, "Labour has been consistent from the beginning."

As laughter erupted throughout the audience she insisted "we have been".

And she invited members of the audience to give her examples.

She said: "From the very beginning we said we were going to judge whatever the government came up with and there were six tests and they were the same tests the government itself was using."

Tory Remainer Anna Soubry said to Anneliese Dodds: "You're not daft you know that Labour is absolutely divided from top to bottom."

Labour's divisions were recently highlighted in the selection for the Lewisham East constituency where the winning candidate has publicly supported the single market.

Owen Smith, who was the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, was sacked by Jeremy Corbyn after he spoke out in favour of the Single Market.

And 83 Labour Lords, including a member of the shadow cabinet, rebelled against the whip to back the single market.

While there are a number of outspoken backbenchers including Chuka Umunna who want to avert Brexit itself.

The official party policy is for the UK to be in a customs union with the UK rather than staying in the customs union and the single market.

But Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell's antipathy to the EU is long held and widely known.