Cameron Warns On Risk To Large Investments Such As HS2 — BREXIT WATCH

Politicians from the U.K.’s largely pro-EU opposition Labour party have come out on different sides in the fractious debate over “Brexit” as a vote on European Union membership looms.

And he said he was concerned with the “leave” campaign’s focus on race and immigration, after the official Vote Leave campaign claimed that Turkey was set to join the European Union – potentially giving Turkey’s 75 million citizens the right to come to the UK.

Concerns about losing Labour voters to Leave were intensified with the announcement that two more prominent backbenchers – Mr Mann and Dennis Skinner – had joined the handful of Labour MPs in the Brexit camp.

He accused the “Leave” campaign, also backed by the anti-immigration UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, of “trying to perpetrate a fraud on Labour voters”.

However, Labour voters were also marginally less likely to say they would definitely vote.

“The Leave campaign can not provide answers to working people who are asking serious questions about what a Tory Brexit will mean for their jobs and their families’ future. Instead we should act here at home to tackle the exploitation and undercutting of wages, which we can do”, he said.

His intervention marked the start of a concerted drive by senior Labour figures to rally support for Remain amid complaints that Jeremy Corbyn – a long-time Eurosceptic – has been half-hearted in campaign efforts.

The Remain campaign is facing the “very real prospect” of defeat in the referendum in two weeks’ time, Leigh MP and senior Labour Party figure Andy Burnham has said. “So far not enough of our voters have heard we are for “In” and “Remain”.

“The issue for me is the economy, but the debate has been hijacked by people to do with immigration and racism”, he said.

And Mr Mann, a member of the Commons Treasury Select Committee urged supporters to ignore official party lines and back a Brexit.

Mr Corbyn will take Labour’s message to shoppers when he joins activists at a street stall in the city centre.

Mr Mann, MP for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, told the Sun many Labour councillors would “shock” Westminster with their referendum vote.

The figure – dismissed as “fanciful” by Vote Leave – is based on Labour’s claim that a post-Brexit Conservative government would “look to announce further austerity if they are to balance the books by the end of the Parliament” – due to their predicted “the hit to the United Kingdom economy” of a Leave vote.

A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: “Jer-emy has completed many Labour “In” public events, made several speeches and issued numerous statements”.

He added: “A people’s revolution is under way. This is about returning power to the people”.

They claimed the “Tory Brexit black hole ” in the public finances would be filled through austerity measures and tax rises imposed by the “hard right” of the party which would dominate if the country votes to Leave.

“But when you hear nine out of ten economists, the Bank of England, the Treasury, the International Monetary Fund and now the National Institute [of Economic and Social Research], all saying our economy will be smaller and will generate less tax revenue, obviously that does threaten potentially some public spending programmes”, Cameron said.