The former Labour minister, who lost her Brexit-backing Don Valley seat to the Tories, told Sky News that Remainers on the Labour frontbench were to blame for their party’s disastrous election result. Ms Flint, a staunch Brexiteer, claimed that shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has called voters in Labour northern heartlands “stupid” for voting Conservative in the lastest election. 

She said: “We shouldn’t take it for granted that a change in leader is going to win us in five years time if that’s when the election is called.

“But I don’t believe there’s any credibility for these people.

“Keir Starmer led us to a policy that did not listen to Labour Leave voices who urged caution.

“He led us down the path of a second referendum.

“And I’m afraid Emily Thornberry did as well. She said to one of my colleagues ‘I’m glad my constituents aren’t as stupid as yours’.

“I’m sorry, that’s not acceptable. Therefore we’re going to have to really look at what might make a candidate for leader who could steer us to a better place over the next few years.

“We shouldn’t for one moment think that a change in leader is going to create an election victory for us.

“It’s about Brexit but it’s wider than that. The policy platform that we had was offering everything to everybody.

“Whilst many of those policies are popular, there’s an underlying scepticism among my voters whether actually Labour could deliver.”

Asked who should succeed Mr Corbyn as Labour leader, Ms Flint said: “I don’t think it should be anybody who has had a hand in our Brexit strategy over the last few years, and I don’t think it can be Corbyn without a beard, I think that would be the wrong move as well.”

Ms Flint also said she was trying to “stem my anger” as she criticised “ardent Remainers” within the party – naming Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry, Hilary Benn and Yvette Cooper – for having “contributed to sacrificing 59 seats”.

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Efforts by the opposition Labour Party to bring Britain together over Brexit failed at last week’s national election when the decision to leave the European Union tore up traditional political loyalties, its justice policy chief said on Sunday.

Richard Burgon, an ally of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, told Sky News the party had to analyse how it lost many traditional

Labour-supporting voters in northern and central England, but that much of the blame fell at the door of Brexit.

He also said he would like to see Rebecca Long-Bailey as the next leader of the Labour Party and that he was considering running for the post of deputy leader.

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