Labour deputy leader Tom Watson walked out of a shadow cabinet meeting after not being shown the party's EU elections manifesto.
Mr Watson is calling for the party to explicitly commit to a second EU referendum ahead of next month's European Parliament elections.
His demand has piled the pressure on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to shift his party's stance before the 23 May polls. At present, Labour has only said a fresh public vote on Brexit must remain among the options as parliament wrestles with the UK's divorce from the EU. In a demonstration of Labour's divisions over Brexit, Mr Watson left the gathering of Labour's shadow ministerial team on Tuesday after they weren't shown a draft of the party's EU elections manifesto.The manifesto will be decided formally at a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee later.
A source told Sky News that Mr Watson saw"no point" being in the shadow cabinet meeting and so took the action to leave.
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