Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been slammed by Labour’s leave campaigners after intervening in the Brexit debate.
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Most opinion polls show Britons are still evenly divided over which way to vote, but an ORB poll published late on Friday which put the “Leave” camp 10 points ahead of “Remain” has spooked markets.
Gordon Brown has compared the Brexit movement to the populist campaign of USA presidential candidate Donald Trump, as Labour launched a drive to persuade its supporters to vote to Remain in the June 23 referendum.
Brown suggested a reform agenda he hopes will assuage anti-EU feelings.
HILARY BENN paid tribute to the immigrants who looked after his dying father today as he tried to rally Labour support for a Remain vote in next week’s European Union referendum.
Brown’s comments were an attempt to echo his impact on the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, in which the former Prime Minister was credited as being influential in the final result.
‘While some in the In campaign are desperately trying to hang on to the idea that Cameron’s renegotiation could reduce immigration, senior Labour figures are openly admitting defeat on this issue – and calling for a change to the EU’s obsession with freedom of movement.
The former prime minister has already shared his European Union reform proposals with his old foe David Cameron and the government has agreed to consider them.
In an extraordinary intervention, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said the party, which championed open door immigration for years, would now demand curbs to free movement of migrants from the EU.
At the same time, the Remain campaign has released a letter signed by 60 past heads of the medical royal colleges and the British Medical Association (BMA) highlighting what they say is the “threat” to the future of the National Health Service if Britain pulls out of the EU.
“This is the Britain I know, and this is the Britain I believe we find in history”. “They sound as if they mourn for the bygone age in which Britain gained influence through military strength and empire”, he will say.
“In the second half of the 20th century, we came to realise that it was far better and far more effective to be a global power that achieved its goals through co-operation rather than conquest”.
Klevin Hopkins, the Labour MP for Luton North, has claimed a Leave vote would save the NHS from the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement between the European Union and US.
Labour MP Gisela Stuart, who chairs Vote Leave, said “no amount of hastily cobbled together relaunches” would win back Labour supporters who she claimed have “seen through the spin of the Government”.
“We want to extend those rights and we best extend those rights by working with trade unions, Labour parties and socialist parties all across Europe in the interests of the working people of the whole continent and of this country”, Corbyn said.
Cameron defended his approach on the BBC’s Marr on Sunday, insisting the campaign had been “hugely optimistic and positive”.
Speaking at the gala, he said the event had been “great”.
Farage is the target of a new poster by the advertising agency M&C Saatchi unveiled by the Stronger In campaign.
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