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"The referendum was five years ago now, we don’t want further division. We accept we’ve left, we’ve got a deal, let’s make it work.”

"Conservative ministers promised that residents would not be burdened with these costs, at least 17 times by my count."

“There is a real fear at the moment that he is attempting to marginalise the left. Now we seem to be travelling in a direction that is turning the Labour Party into a party of the establishment."

The sudden announcement sets up a fresh electoral contest in Hartlepool, a seat long-held by Labour.

"If Theresa May thinks your policing bill is needlessly draconian and authoritarian, it's possible you may have gone a bit too far," Nick Pettigrew said.

"It's like the fable, you know the one where the dog's got a bone..."

Shadow justice secretary David Lammy said the party cannot support a bill that would lead to harsher penalties for damaging a statue than attacking a woman.

It comes ahead of a crucial vote on a policing bill in the Commons in the wake of the Sarah Everard vigil.

Party analysis indicates that the cumulative effect of an immediate council tax rise, an effective pay cut and a looming freeze to income tax thresholds will leave a newly qualified nurse with £307 less in their pocket by 2023.