Labour MP describes Brexit as 's**t icing on the s**t cake'

A Labour MP has launched a stinging attack on Brexit, describing it as the ‘s**t cherry on the s**t icing on the s**t cake’.

The sensational claim was made by Alison McGovern, the Labour MP for Wirral South, during an appearance on the Progressive Britain podcast.

Mrs McGovern hit out at ‘deindustrialisation’ in the North before turning her ire on Brexit.

‘That is basically it. The Tories in the 1990s did a lot to diminish Chile and what kicked off all of that’, she argued.

‘The ERM [European Exchange Rate Mechanism] and mishandling of the European issue led them to the path of 1990’s public services austerity which then builds in this deep resentment and I would argue the same on the place of towns.

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‘If you look at the problems that certain places in the north have, it’s because of deindustrialisation started by Thatcher.’

Hitting out at Brexit, she added: ‘And Brexit is just like, if I’m allowed to use this terminology, the s**t cherry on the s**t icing on the s**t cake that the Tories baked us all in the 1980s.’

Her comments come only a week about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn set out Labour’s position on Brexit.

In a major shift of policy , Mr Corbyn provided a clear distance between Labour and the Conservative Government by commiting to a customs union and a continued pledge to allow the EU to continue to negotiate trade deals on behalf of the UK after Brexit.

‘The European Union is not the root of all our problems, and leaving it will not solve all our problems. ‘Likewise, the EU is not the source of all enlightenment and leaving it does not inevitably spell doom for our country’, he said.