Ex-South Shields MP David Miliband describes Brexit as 'wrecking ball at the constitution of the country'

The former Labour Foreign Secretary told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show: "In the end we're in this mess because each party has tried to calculate what to do about Brexit according to internal party politics, that's how David Cameron ended up in the referendum in the first place, that's why Jeremy Corbyn is sitting on the fence.

"The Brexit issue is now a wrecking ball at the constitution of the country, at the political structures of the country, because each of the main parties has been thinking about its own sectional interests."