Labour Brexiteers

SIR – Labour MPS gave a rather pathetic justification for their rebellion against Jeremy Corbyn in supporting Chuka Umunna’s amendment calling for us to stay in the European Union’s internal market and the customs union (“Labour’s Remain MPS say they won’t back Corbyn,” report, July 1).

Their vote was in total opposition to the manifesto they all were elected on a month ago.

Labour was clear: we are leaving the European Union. This includes the internal market and customs union, as both Jeremy Corbyn and John Mcdonnell have explained, and the position is supported by former Remain supporters Caroline Flint and Harriet Harman.

My constituency voted Remain yet I, as a leading Leave campaigner, was elected with a massively increased majority, despite a personally targeted Lib Dem campaign to unseat me. People have moved on from the referendum, and the idea that MPS will lose their seats if we leave the internal market seems a little far fetched.

The majority of the British people endorsed the referendum decision, as 80 per cent of those who voted in the general election supported parties that want to have a clean Brexit.

Labour is a now a Brexit party, and all Labour MPS were elected on a Brexit ticket for jobs, control of our borders and power restored to our Parliament.

Kate Hoey MP (Lab)

London SW9