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Published 09:21 8 Sept 2018 BST
Updated 09:23 8 Sept 2018 BST
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Chuka Umunna has called on his party leader to stop de-selecting moderate colleagues (Credit: Jack Taylor)[/caption]
Shuker, who was elected in 2010, said: "I’ve not changed, but the Labour Party has."
Umunna is expected to demand Corbyn end the excommunication of centre-left MPs at speech today to Progress - a moderate grouping within the Labour party.
"More motions such as this are expected by colleagues," he will say. "My message to our leadership: it is within your power to stop this so call off the dogs and get on with what my constituency, one of the most diverse communities in the nation, demands we do - without equivocation, fight this Tory Brexit. That is where all our efforts should be."
Referring to "this disastrous Brexit" as a "complete betrayal" of the Labour party's values, he will continue: "It is simply not good enough to adopt a position which refuses to make the case for a people's vote on the deal and at the same time leave it on the table as an option in the event of impasse in the House of Commons.
"That is simply constructive ambiguity continued, which needs to be junked.
"Let's dump the prevarication, stop using internal factional reasons as an excuse to avoid it, and back a people's vote wholeheartedly now."
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