Labour’s deputy leader spoke to the Co-operative Party Economic Conference in London

Labour frontbenchers who quit in a row over the party’s approach to Brexit should be back in top positions “within months”, Tom Watson has said. The deputy leader said the party must take a sensible approach to dealing with the deep divisions among MPs over triggering Article 50. At a conference in central London, Mr Watson said Britain must be open-minded about US president Donald Trump’s economic policies.