LEIGH's MP appealed for compromise and a national consensus to resolve the Brexit crisis in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph.

Writing in a column, Jo Platt issued a warning before Labour Party decides the party’s Brexit policy at its annual conference in Brighton this week.

She has previously asked her party to listen to the voice of "Labour heartlands" who she said voted Brexit for many of the same reasons they have voted for the party for generations.

Ms Platt said: “Any declaration now to fight unequivocally for remain even before any hypothetical referendum question has been posed, will only fuel division, further destroy hope of compromise or consensus and paint the Labour Party as complicit with the group of MPs who have planned from the very start to reverse the result.”

The Leigh MP also warned of the consequences of the extreme Brexit options of revoking article 50 or leaving without a deal.

She said “offers like these are always too good to be true” and “neither of these options’ present sustainable paths forward".

"Revoking would be a gross betrayal of democracy with enormous consequences while no deal would inflict unnecessary and pointless harm when we will ultimately negotiate a new trade deal with the EU anyway,” Ms Platt said.

The MP has argued that the only “sustainable and permanent” path forwards is by agreeing a consensus settlement that both leave and remain voters can “live with”.

Ms Platt recently joined the MPs for a Deal group in Westminster that seeks to work cross-party in an attempt to put party politics aside and agree a consensus deal.

In an appeal to her fellow parliamentarians, Jo Platt said “Parliament must start acting maturely by considering the paths that will produce a permanent Brexit settlement that enables us to forge a national consensus.

“That national consensus must start in the Commons.

"It will mean politicians from across the House laying down their weapons and agreeing to finally work constructively, as the country expects.

"This bold and brave step will set the ultimate example of how we can reunite and heal our divisions.”

A total of 64 per cent people in the borough voted to leave the EU in 2016.