Labour’s Frank Field hit by Left’s no confidence vote over Brexit

LABOUR MP Frank Field remains defiant after Left-wing activists in his constituency passed a vote of no confidence in him for siding with the Government over Brexit.

The Eurosceptic former minister was censured by Birkenhead constituency Labour Party at the weekend after he helped prevent a Government defeat over the customs union this month. The far-Left Momentum group has called for the deselection of Mr Field and three other Labour MPs over their votes. But Mr Field, speaking after the vote of no confidence, insisted he had acted on behalf of ‘millions of Labour voters – mainly in parts of the country that have long been neglected by the elites – who gave politicians a clear instruction to take the country out of the EU’.

Mr Field’s constituency on the Wirral voted in favour of Leave.

The vote of no confidence carries no formal weight but could pave the way for a future deselection.

Fellow Labour Brexiteer Kate Hoey has vowed to fight on after a similar vote of no confidence from activists at her local party in Vauxhall. Eurosceptics John Mann and Graham Stringer also face potential censure after Momentum’s national co-ordinator Laura Parker said there was ‘no room for Labour MPs who side with the reactionary Tory establishment’.

Mr Field said during his 39 years as an MP he had ‘always voted to free our country from the tightening stranglehold of the EU’ – adding that he had done so for most of that period ‘alongside Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell’.