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Labour MPs have a responsibility to back the party’s policies and remove this hopeless Tory Government.

Eight years of Conservative austerity have completely undone Labour’s work achieved from 1997 to 2010.

Council budgets have been slashed by 50% meaning poorer services and social care on its knees, 1,000 Sure Start centres have closed, our health service is in permanent crisis and tens of thousands of police officers, firefighters and prison officers have been axed, leading to rising crime, a stretched fire brigade and unsafe jails.

Brexit negotiations are in chaos with a split cabinet and party, and an incompetent prime minister.

So why the hell, when we had the opportunity to kick them out , did four Labour MPs vote with the Government against Labour’s policy of having a customs union with the EU?

John Mann, Frank Field , Kate Hoey and Graham Stringer voted alongside the DUP mercenaries to effectively keep this destructive Conservative government in power.

If they won’t support Labour, they should stand as independents at the next election and see how far they get.