FORMER Labour leader Ed Miliband has clashed with his successor Jeremy Corbyn over the key issue of immigration control.
Mr Miliband said limits on the free movement of workers must be included in a single market Brexit deal with Brussels.
This is directly at odds with Mr Corbyn, who said that tackling wage undercutting and worker exploitation would lead to lower migration, rather than controls on numbers.
Mr Miliband stressed there needed to be a trade-off in the Brexit divorce deal between controlling free movement and not "burning" the economy in the process.
The ex-Labour leader said he did not want to tell Mr Corbyn what to do before stating on ITV's Peston on Sunday: "If you are asking me should we carry on with free movement as was, I don't think we should. I do think in the Brexit negotiations we have got to look for change in terms of free movement.
"One of the things from the referendum is that free movement cannot carry on exactly as it did before.
"That is at the heart of the negotiations, which is to get change on free movement, but let's not forget the economy, let's make sure we put the economy first."
The stance goes against the position of Mr Corbyn, who told the BBC on immigration: "I think it will be lower if we deal with the issues of wage undercutting, deal with the issues of exploitation.
"Communities coming together to improve education, and health, and housing work better together - blaming minorities doesn't build houses."
Mr Miliband said he opposed a second EU referendum on the outcome of withdrawal negotiations because such a stand would only ensure a hard Brexit.
"If we cede the field and we just say 'we are the people who want to reverse the result', then there are two choices in Britain, hard, destructive Brexit, or reversing the result. I know what's going to win, hard Brexit is going to win."
In a rare moment of praise for Mr Corbyn's ability to fight a general election, Mr Miliband said: "I actually think that his political outsider status is something that is going to be helpful to him."
