THERESA MAY needs to listen to trade unions and businesses by formulating a back-up Brexit deal that will focus on jobs and industry, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said today.

His intervention followed a joint letter from the Trades Union Congress and the bosses’ Confederation of British Industry that called on the PM to change tack after MPs rejected her Withdrawal Agreement twice.

The letter was sent today while the PM and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were in Brussels for separate meetings with EU negotiators before the EU summit.