Labour could block Brexit deal and prolong chaos unless Remainers get a second referendum
Theresa May has begged Jeremy Corbyn to help get a deal done
LABOUR could block a Brexit deal with the Tories unless they get a second referendum to try and overturn it altogether.
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Reports claimed that two thirds of the party wouldn't back anything unless there was a confirmatory referendum to ask the people yet again if Brexit is really what they want.
One shadow cabinet minister told the Guardian: "Jeremy cannot be sure he has the numbers – even if he whipped it – so he cannot do a deal without a confirmatory vote."
But Labour MP Don Valley Caroline Flint said this morning that her party needed to "get on" and sort out a deal this week - and believed most of her colleagues would get behind it if a customs union was offered.
She told BBC Radio 4 this morning: "I think if it a deal is struck in which Labour achieves many of its goals, that it takes us to an election in which all parties will be able to set out their stalls, I think that's a deal worth perusing.
"I think a majority of Labour MPs would support that position.
"I know there is not a majority for a second referendum."
MPs have rejected a second referendum in the Commons on several occasions - along with multiple other options.
Mrs May doesn't want to offer one but has considered it as a way to break the Brexit deadlock.
She's said to have engaged in "scenario planning" in case the Commons forces through another vote - which could be include her deal, Remain, or leaving without an agreement.
Mr Corbyn doesn't want another vote either but is under pressure from Remainers in his party to demand one.
Both main parties got a drubbing in the local elections last week as fuming voters abandoned them for failing to get us out, putting increased pressure on them to get a deal.
Labour and Tories were pummelled by Brexit voters across the country in their traditional heartlands.
Tories and Labour are set to resume talks tomorrow.
Theresa May is rumoured to be poised to offer Jeremy Corbyn a form of customs union until the next election to woo over his MPs to back her agreement.
However, fuming Tories are set to reject anything which offers what they think is a soft Brexit.
To do a deal with Labour would be an act of unconscionable folly and of stupendous lack of foresight
Tory MP Steve Baker
Hardline Brexiteer Steve Baker wrote this morning that it was "madness" she was trying to get a deal done with Labour rather than the Tories and her DUP allies and could lead to "political oblivion".
He blasted in an article for Conservative Home: "To do a deal with Labour over the heads of both our confidence and supply partners and Conservative MPs – who have scrutinised the deal minutely and said loudly and explicitly what we have found – would be an act of unconscionable folly and of stupendous lack of foresight.
"Even to contemplate it is to declare surrender to Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister."
And Tory 1922 Chairman Sir Graham Brady issued a similar stark warning yesterday.
He wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: "To reach an agreement with Labour that locked the United Kingdom into the customs union might pull in enough Labour votes to allow an agreement to limp over the line but the price could be a catastrophic split in the Conservative party and at a time when the opposition is led by dangerous extremists, the consequences for our country would be unthinkable."
But Government minister Rory Stewart said that it could be worth splitting the party in two if Brexit was delivered.
In an astonishing admission, he said: "I think to get Brexit done, and to move this country on, is worth an enormous amount, and we may have to take some short-term pain to do that."
Mrs May yesterday begged the Labour boss to work with her, saying both parties' supporters wanted to see Brexit over and done with it.
But yesterday Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell poured cold water on the talks by saying he didn't "trust" her to deliver.
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