Labour at war over Brexit AGAIN as Emily Thornberry says a second referendum is still on the table

LABOUR was plunged into a fresh war over Brexit today after Emily Thornberry said a second referendum IS still possible.

The Shadow Foreign Secretary insisted that a fresh vote on Brexit was still on the table, just days after her boss Jeremy Corbyn insisted "we can't stop Brexit".

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She said this morning that the 2016 result, which saw 17 million vote for Leave, should be "abided by" but then bizarrely claimed that "all options remain on the table".

Ms Thornberry told the Andrew Marr Show: "If you can't come up with a decent suggestion then we should have a general election, if we don't have a general election then yes, of course, all the options remain on the table and we would campaign for there to be a people's vote."

But she added: "There are several stages before we get there."

She was told her plans were a "fantasy prospectus" and wouldn't work, and also insisted that Labour MPs could not be relied upon to vote for her deal.

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Mr Corbyn told a Germany newspaper on Friday that Brexit could not be halted, and it was important to understand why people voted to leave.

He was asked by Der Speigel whether he would stop us leaving the EU if he could.

"We can’t stop it," he said. "The referendum took place. Article 50 has been triggered.

"What we can do is recognize the reasons why people voted Leave.”

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Ms Thornberry's shadow cabinet colleague Diane Abbott warned against a second vote on Thursday too, saying it would see Leave win AGAIN.

She told BBC's Question Time the public would say: "Didn't you hear us the first time?"

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's brother Jo, who voted Remain, plunged the Government into fresh chaos on Friday afternoon when he dramatically quit over Brexit - and demanded another referendum.

He said Mrs May's deal was a choice between "two deeply unattractive outcomes... vassalage and chaos".

But the PM has firmly ruled out another vote, saying that it would betray the people and public's trust in politicians.