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One of Labour's only Brexit-backing MPs faces a fight for survival after a dramatic no-confidence vote by her own members.

Kate Hoey's delegates voted unanimously for a call to oust her last night in a damning motion that accused her of "ignoring" constituents' views, "collaborating" with Hard Brexit Tories and "colluding with Nigel Farage".

About 70 members, 45 with voting rights, packed into a baking hot community centre last night for a two-hour meeting of the Vauxhall Labour Party.

The local party chair said not a single attendee spoke out to defend Ms Hoey. Only three delegates abstained in the no confidence vote - with none voting against.

Local activist Jamie Green said one speaker declared: "In the name of God, go."

A source said members were "despairing" and at the "end of their tether" and "the debate was about the best way to censure her or oppose her, rather than whether or not we should."

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"It must have been 40 degrees in there because the doors were jammed shut and the windows only opened about 5cm. Everyone was screwing up their bits of paper and making fans," they added.

The motion has no legal effect but is designed to pile political pressure on Ms Hoey and party HQ.

Members should also have the chance to deselect Ms Hoey using the 'trigger ballot' system at some point before the next general election.

The local party has already requested a trigger ballot. A source said: "I don't see how she would win a trigger ballot now."

Defiant Ms Hoey told the Mirror today: "A vote of the local party is not the national executive, and local activists don’t necessarily speak for Labour supporters in Vauxhall.

"I will always put my country before my party and helping constituents is a priority.

"So quite relaxed and after 29 years as an MP have seen it all before."

Ms Hoey is a veteran MP who backed Jeremy Corbyn to stay in power and has represented the south London seat for 29 years.

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Yet she backs Brexit despite her wider area, Lambeth, voting 79% for Remain. She and three other Labour MPs voted recently with Tories against a bid to keep the UK in the EU's Customs Union - allowing it to lose by six votes.

A source said Momentum and centrist members united against their MP last night.

One ward put forward a motion against Ms Hoey - which other members then amended to make even more hard-hitting.

In the final move, the words "no confidence" were then added on top of the newer, hard-hitting motion.

The motion accused Ms Hoey of "repeatedly reneging” on Labour’s manifesto with actions that "cannot be deemed to be compatible with Labour’s core beliefs and values.”

It added: "Examples of this go far beyond her views on EU membership.

"[They] include: Working for Boris Johnson when he was London Mayor; chairing the Countryside Alliance and supporting fox hunting, despite representing an inner city constituency.

"Supporting elitist grammar schools; attacking Labour’s ban on hand guns following the Dunblane massacre.

"Colluding with Nigel Farage, UKIP and the leave.eu campaign during the referendum" - and accepting funds from Leave.EU tycoon Arron Banks.

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It added: "This CLP therefore requests...

(a) That the Leader of the Labour Party and Chief Whip suspend Kate Hoey from the Parliamentary Labour Party and remove the Whip;

"and (b) That the National Executive Committee declare Kate Hoey ineligible for re-selection or endorsement as a Labour Party parliamentary candidate."

Ms Hoey - who missed the meeting because she is overseeing the election in Zimbabwe - claimed the motion contained "a number of inaccuracies".

In a statement read at the meeting she said she had been voting against "Brexit in name only", adding: "This is not the position in the Labour manifesto on which I was re-elected."

She added: "Many of the issues raised are long in the past and since then I have been subject to the vote of Vauxhall residents and re-elected each time."

She said she was one of only 42 Labour MPs who voted against a no-confidence motion in Jeremy Corbyn, adding: "I stand openly on my record."

Vauxhall Labour Party chair Emily Wallace said in a statement: "The meeting was open to all of our 2,300 members to attend and speak.

"However, there were no members that came to speak in defence of Kate. Just three delegates abstained on the motion, no one voted against and the other 42 delegates voted in favour."

Fellow Brexiteer Labour MP Frank Field faces a similar bid to suspend his membership of the Labour group in Parliament at a constituency meeting tonight.