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There appears to be no end to the Brexit deadlock in sight, with Labour again accusing the government of refusing to budge on its red lines in cross-party talks.

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Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey told Sky News there needed to be "hard and fast" progress in the discussions, which will continue this week.

She also denied suggestions from the Conservatives that her party was stalling, saying "we're certainly not dragging our heels".

Ms Long-Bailey told Sophy Ridge on Sunday: "Honestly I think the discussions so far have been productive, they've gone into a lot of detail, there seems to be a willingness on both sides to move towards some form of consensus.

"But as yet we haven't seen the government move on any of their red lines, we're having further discussions this week and hopefully we'll see some movement."

She added: "At the moment we are focusing on the detail, where we stand in relation to our relevant positions, and where potentially we could move to.

"But we want to see hard and fast movement on those red lines as quickly as possible."

Theresa May's decision to reach out to Labour and offer cross-party talks in a bid to break the impasse had sparked a debate within Jeremy Corbyn's party as to whether he should insist on a second referendum as a "red line".

The question divides opinion in the party.

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When asked if another public vote was something the party would be insisting upon in the discussions, Ms Long-Bailey said Labour was "not being hugely prescriptive on the minute detail of specific elements because we are willing to compromise and we are willing to be flexible".

Quizzed on whether the party would sign off on a deal without a referendum if it met all of its criteria, Ms Long-Bailey refused to say, but added that if they were not met then "all options are on the table which includes campaigning for a public vote".

Put to her that this sounded like a second referendum was not a red line for Labour, she replied: "No, a public vote in the event of the situation that I've just outlined has always been our party policy, now we have to be flexible in where we move on, we've got to keep all options on the table and that's what we're doing.

"Until we find out out what the final deal vote will be, we are of course pushing the government to consider the policy option that we have which is a public vote to avoid a damaging no-deal Brexit or a bad deal, and they are considering that."

Shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "Our manifesto [for the European elections] is going to be agreed by the National Executive Committee on Tuesday.

"I expect the NEC will endorse Labour's policy that came out of the conference."

Mr Gwynne added: "I want to ensure that we avoid a bad Tory Brexit or a no-deal scenario.

"In those circumstances, yes, I think that wasn't on the ballot paper in 2016, we should then perhaps ask the people 'is this actually what you want, a confirmatory vote, do you support what the Government's proposition is?'.

"But let's see what comes out of these talks because I hope that the government can move on some of these red lines so that we can get a more sensible approach towards Brexit going forwards."