BRITAIN’S labour movement must remain “vigilant” and put itself on a “war footing,” Labour MP Ian Mearns told the RMT AGM yesterday.

The backbencher told delegates that his party’s radical 2017 manifesto could form the foundations of a “ground war” to “save Britain, save our families from the wreckage and the carnage being heaped upon us by the Tory Party.”

He said that behind the “unholy mess” of arguments over Brexit, “Parliament does trundle on almost like a zombie,” suggesting that the Tories’ lack of a Commons majority was limiting the government to legislating on areas of minor concern.