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Labour MP John Mann has told the BBC he will be voting to leave the European Union because of "free movement of labour, immigration and empowerment". Labour MP John Mann has said he will vote to leave the EU and says Labour voters "fundamentally disagree" with the party's official position.
Writing in the Sun, he said many Labour councillors would "shock" Westminster with their referendum vote. He told the BBC the EU was "broken" and "undemocratic" and told the Sun many Labour councillors would "shock" Westminster with their referendum vote.
"Too few Labour MPs" were campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union via the 23 June vote, he added. Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner has also said he will vote to leave the EU.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said Labour must do more to encourage its supporters to vote to remain in the EU. Labour's leadership is campaigning to stay in the EU and says Labour votes will be crucial in the referendum.
Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner has confirmed that he too will vote for a Brexit. Senior party figures including Ed Miliband, Tom Watson and Yvette Cooper are attempting to mobilise Labour voters to back the Remain campaign later, with warnings of what they say is the potential economic impact of a vote to leave.
According to BBC political correspondent Eleanor Garnier, Mr Mann has been debating his position for the past few weeks, and had said he was thinking of voting to remain in the EU only "a few weeks ago". Among Labour voices suggesting the party must do more to get its supporters to back Remain are London Mayor Sadiq Khan and GMB leader Tim Roache.
But he now says free movement of labour was by far and away the biggest issue behind his decision - and a lack of democratic structures in the EU meant this could not be changed. But Mr Mann told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's not that Labour's not getting its message across to Labour voters, it's that Labour voters are fundamentally disagreeing on this issue."
The MP for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire also said a "people's revolution is under way" which was about "returning power to the people". He said he had tried putting the case for and against in public meetings but had "found it impossible to argue the case for because the EU's fundamentally broken, it's undemocratic and even when you want to get changes - as David Cameron tried - you can't get them".
He wrote: "At the heart of our problems, we have at all times now one arm tied behind our back by the European Union and there is nothing we can do about it. He said, on immigration, the EU's free movement of people did not allow the UK to plan for pressure on its public services.
"Nowhere is that clearer than with the free movement of people, which has, is, and will continue to undermine pay and conditions in working-class communities. The Bassetlaw MP, who has been critical of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, denied his stance was anything to do with "internal Labour Party politics" adding: "Jeremy Corbyn is far more in touch on this issue than [former leader] Ed Miliband - hence he's been more equivocal in some of the things he has said."
"It is not sustainable to have 300,000 new people added to the population every year. It has created two kinds of people in this country: the people who gain from this and the people who lose out." He added: "Dennis Skinner has done an article in the Morning Star today - he's one of Jeremy's big supporters."
Mr Skinner told the Morning Star he did not believe progressive reform of the EU could be achieved. Writing in the Sun, Mr Mann said many Labour councillors would "shock" Westminster with their referendum vote and said a "people's revolution is under way" which was about "returning power to the people".
He wrote: "It is not sustainable to have 300,000 new people added to the population every year. It has created two kinds of people in this country: the people who gain from this and the people who lose out."
Bolsover MP Mr Skinner told the Morning Star he did not believe progressive reform of the EU could be achieved.
"My opposition from the very beginning has been on the lines that fighting capitalism state-by-state is hard enough. It's even harder when you're fighting it on the basis of eight states, 10 states and now 28."My opposition from the very beginning has been on the lines that fighting capitalism state-by-state is hard enough. It's even harder when you're fighting it on the basis of eight states, 10 states and now 28.
"What [the EU] should be doing, if it wanted to convince people like me, is have a directive to get rid of zero-hours contracts across the whole of the EU. That's what I'd be looking for.""What [the EU] should be doing, if it wanted to convince people like me, is have a directive to get rid of zero-hours contracts across the whole of the EU. That's what I'd be looking for."
Sadiq Khan, the newly-elected mayor of London, said on Thursday that Labour had a "monumental responsibility" to ensure it mobilised supporters to vote in favour of continued EU membership.Sadiq Khan, the newly-elected mayor of London, said on Thursday that Labour had a "monumental responsibility" to ensure it mobilised supporters to vote in favour of continued EU membership.
"The worry that we have is, for understandable reasons because a lot of the media attention has been on so-called 'blue on blue' attacks - Boris Johnson versus David Cameron, Michael Gove versus George Osborne - Labour voters have been turned off," he said."The worry that we have is, for understandable reasons because a lot of the media attention has been on so-called 'blue on blue' attacks - Boris Johnson versus David Cameron, Michael Gove versus George Osborne - Labour voters have been turned off," he said.
Earlier on Thursday, Sir John Major and Tony Blair campaigned together in Northern Ireland, where they warned that a vote to leave the EU would "jeopardise the unity" of the UK.
They suggested a Leave vote might re-open Scotland's independence issue and put Northern Ireland's "future at risk" by threatening its current stability.