“As we wake up, we should think about our pay packets, and who they support”, Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, said in his closing comments at the event in London, exactly three weeks before the referendum that decides whether Britain remains in the EU.
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“We are campaigning up and down the country for Britain to remain in the European Union because it has brought huge benefits to deprived areas of our country and has done so much to protect workers’ rights, including maternity and paternity leave, four weeks holiday and the 48-hour maximum working week”.
The Labour Party leader said a “Brexit negotiation would be disaster for the majority of the British people” and spoke out against the “myth making and prophecies of doom” that had dominated the debate around the U.K.’s June 23 referendum on remaining in the EU.
“A vote to leave means a Conservative government would then be in charge of negotiating Britain’s exit”, Corbyn will say, according to his office.
Speaking on Sky News’s Europe In or Out broadcast, Mr Cameron said he stuck by his “ambition” of bringing net migration into the United Kingdom – which last month hit 333,000 – below 100,000.
“I believe the European Union has the potential to deliver positive change for the people of Britain if there was a radical, reforming government to drive that agenda. Defending workers’ rights or immigration and the impact on communities in this country?” “This is the same George Osborne who predicted his austerity policies would close the deficit by 2015”.
The Left-winger said it was not “racist” for people to feel concerned about “disconcerting” local changes but said they should blame the government and not the EU.
“David Cameron, make clear now that, if Britain votes to remain this month, you will block any TTIP trade treaty that threatens our public services, our consumer and employment rights and that hands over power to giant corporations to override democratically elected governments”, he said.
“The overwhelming evidence now shows that Britain will be poorer and families of Britain will be poorer if we leave the EU”.
Already controversial due to anti-Semitism within his party’s ranks and his own history, recently released letters by Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have revealed more of his outlook on Israel.
Tim Farron, leader of the minority Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons, warned a vote to leave Europe would destroy young people’s hopes of getting on the housing ladder. Where centre-right and centre-left agree, we should say so.
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“I think the Prime Minister performed a public service last night by setting out the facts of the choice that we face”. “There is a progressive and positive as well as patriotic case that can be made with energy and drive”.
