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| EU referendum: Labour claims Brexit could bring £18bn cuts | EU referendum: Labour claims Brexit could bring £18bn cuts |
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| Leaving the EU could lead to £18bn of spending cuts and tax rises with the Tory government forced to hold an emergency Budget, Labour has claimed. | Leaving the EU could lead to £18bn of spending cuts and tax rises with the Tory government forced to hold an emergency Budget, Labour has claimed. |
| The party is stepping up its campaign to get Labour voters to vote to stay in the EU in 23 June's referendum. | The party is stepping up its campaign to get Labour voters to vote to stay in the EU in 23 June's referendum. |
| Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham warned there was a "very real prospect" of Brexit. | Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham warned there was a "very real prospect" of Brexit. |
| Labour MPs John Mann and Dennis Skinner have both rejected the party's official position and joined the Out campaign. | Labour MPs John Mann and Dennis Skinner have both rejected the party's official position and joined the Out campaign. |
| Mr Mann said Labour voters disagreed with the party leadership on the EU issue and a "people's revolution is underway". | Mr Mann said Labour voters disagreed with the party leadership on the EU issue and a "people's revolution is underway". |
| BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Labour's Remain campaign was "going up a gear" amid deep fears in the party about what they've been hearing on the doorstep. She said several senior figures had told her they were genuinely worried that many Labour voters would vote to leave the EU. | BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Labour's Remain campaign was "going up a gear" amid deep fears in the party about what they've been hearing on the doorstep. She said several senior figures had told her they were genuinely worried that many Labour voters would vote to leave the EU. |
| Labour's deputy Tom Watson and other senior party figures presented figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which he said showed £18bn of spending cuts and tax rises would be in the pipeline in the event of the UK leaving the EU. | |
| 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 "hit to the UK economy" of a Leave 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 "hit to the UK economy" of a Leave vote. |
| Mr Watson said Labour was "clear that Britain is better off in Europe" and said that a "Tory Brexit budget" would "hit working people hard" while Ms Cooper said the Leave campaign was "being led by the hard right of the Tory party" who had "never been friends to public services or low-paid workers". | Mr Watson said Labour was "clear that Britain is better off in Europe" and said that a "Tory Brexit budget" would "hit working people hard" while Ms Cooper said the Leave campaign was "being led by the hard right of the Tory party" who had "never been friends to public services or low-paid workers". |
| She accused the Leave campaign of "manipulating people" over immigration and said voting to leave would not resolve the issue: "I think it's possible to respond to people's concerns in a sustainable way but we shouldn't be making false promises about it." | She accused the Leave campaign of "manipulating people" over immigration and said voting to leave would not resolve the issue: "I think it's possible to respond to people's concerns in a sustainable way but we shouldn't be making false promises about it." |
| In further efforts to win over Labour voters to the Remain cause, former leader Ed Miliband will claim that senior Leave campaigners want to abolish measures protecting workers' rights. | In further efforts to win over Labour voters to the Remain cause, former leader Ed Miliband will claim that senior Leave campaigners want to abolish measures protecting workers' rights. |
| Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme ahead of his speech, Mr Miliband said "not enough of our voters have heard we are for 'in' - amid a focus on "blue-on-blue" Conservative in-fighting. | Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme ahead of his speech, Mr Miliband said "not enough of our voters have heard we are for 'in' - amid a focus on "blue-on-blue" Conservative in-fighting. |
| He added: "We haven't done enough yet, we've got to do more. But people know where Labour stands. And I know Jeremy [Corbyn] believes that, everybody in our Party believes that. And this is a fundamental question for out country." | He added: "We haven't done enough yet, we've got to do more. But people know where Labour stands. And I know Jeremy [Corbyn] believes that, everybody in our Party believes that. And this is a fundamental question for out country." |
| It follows comments by shadow home secretary Mr Burnham, who told BBC Two's Newsnight the party had failed to reach out to traditional Labour voters. | It follows comments by shadow home secretary Mr Burnham, who told BBC Two's Newsnight the party had failed to reach out to traditional Labour voters. |
| "We have definitely been far too much Hampstead and not enough Hull in recent times and we need to change that. Here we are two weeks away from the very real prospect that Britain will vote for isolation," he told BBC Two's Newsnight. | "We have definitely been far too much Hampstead and not enough Hull in recent times and we need to change that. Here we are two weeks away from the very real prospect that Britain will vote for isolation," he told BBC Two's Newsnight. |
| Later he tweeted that his comments were not intended as a criticism of the referendum campaign - but as a comment on Labour over the last two decades. | Later he tweeted that his comments were not intended as a criticism of the referendum campaign - but as a comment on Labour over the last two decades. |
| But Mr Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, in Nottinghamshire, told the BBC on Friday: "It's not that Labour's not getting its message across, it's that Labour voters are fundamentally disagreeing." | But Mr Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, in Nottinghamshire, told the BBC on Friday: "It's not that Labour's not getting its message across, it's that Labour voters are fundamentally disagreeing." |
| And Mr Skinner, MP for the neighbouring seat of Bolsover in Derbyshire, told the Morning Star that "fighting capitalism state-by-state" was "even harder when you're fighting it on the basis of eight states, 10 states and now 28". | And Mr Skinner, MP for the neighbouring seat of Bolsover in Derbyshire, told the Morning Star that "fighting capitalism state-by-state" was "even harder when you're fighting it on the basis of eight states, 10 states and now 28". |
| On the claims that £18bn of cuts would follow a "Brexit" vote, a Vote Leave spokesman said: "As support drains away from the Remain campaign, they are getting ever more desperate and hysterical with their fanciful Leave predictions." | On the claims that £18bn of cuts would follow a "Brexit" vote, a Vote Leave spokesman said: "As support drains away from the Remain campaign, they are getting ever more desperate and hysterical with their fanciful Leave predictions." |