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MPs have warned Sir Keir Starmer that he faces a “civil war” inside Labour if he tries to reverse Brexit in an try to safe his embattled management.

Labour MP Dan Carden advised the Prime Minister to not rejoin a customs union.

Firing the warning at any potential management rivals, he added: “We hear suggestions that this is being seriously contemplated by some at the very top of the Government.

“Moreover, we hear that it seems to be the purpose of people that now have designs on the PM’s job.

“Andy Burnham has declared how he wants to see us back in the EU in his lifetime, while Wes Streeting wants us to have a deeper trading relationship with Europe.”

A row erupted after Health Secretary Wes Streeting referred to as for a “deeper trading relationship with the EU” – a transfer which was interpreted as each a name to rejoin the Customs Union and an try to achieve the assist of Europhile Labour MPs forward of a management bid in opposition to the Prime Minister.

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, a management contender, has additionally said that he hopes the UK will rejoin the EU in his lifetime.

Speaking to the Mail on Sunday (MoS), Mr Carden added: “The European Union (EU) is… a low-growth bloc with a declining share of global GDP. Joining a Customs Union would mean scrapping our post-Brexit trade deals with places that are the 21st-century growth centres, such as the US and India.

“Shifting nearer to Brussels would imply giving up our hard-won nationwide freedoms.

“I urge Sir Keir not to seek to tie the UK into a new customs union or any other such arrangement which may carry a disguised name but amount to the same thing.”

Labour MP Graham Stringer advised how Sir Keir would face “a rebellion of scores of Labour MPs if he sought to take us back into any sort of Customs Union”.

He advised the MoS that “it will lead to civil war inside Labour”. He added: “Starmer’s Parliamentary colleagues know they stood on a clear manifesto pledge to do no such thing.

“It could be particularly troublesome for Labour MPs within the so-called Red Wall to assist such a flagrant manifesto breach, as many have Reform respiratory down their necks. They could be committing electoral suicide.”