Labour MP Frank Field has lost of vote of no confidence in his constituency, as local party members try to oust him as an MP over his support for Brexit.
A lifelong Eurosceptic, Field was among the four Labour MPs who voted with the government to carry its Brexit agenda. Theresa May's Tories won the vote by three votes.
The no confidence vote on Friday carries no official weighting, but local party members are reportedly pushing for the deselection of the veteran MP, who leads the Work and Pensions Committee and has been a vocal campaigner on pensions issues such as defined benefit regulation and collective defined contribution.
Speaking to The Guardian, Field said his vote was in line with the leave vote in his constituency, and expressed his lifelong Euroscepticism as shown in other parliamentary votes.
"For most, if not all, of those votes I did so alongside Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell," he said.
