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EU referendum live: poll gives six-point lead for Brexit EU referendum live: poll gives six-point lead for Brexit
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The Corbyn event is now over. I will post a summary soon.
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Corbyn's Q&A
Q: John McDonnell said today Labour should look again at the free movement of labour in the EU. Do you agree?
Corbyn says the EU depends on free movement of labour. He has set out plans for EU minimum standards. He thinks that is the way foward.
Q: [From the Telegraph’s Michael Deacon] Why are so many Labour supporters planning to vote Leave?
Corbyn says people do not appreciate all that the EU has done. He also says there has been a “steady stream of anti-European sentiment” in the papers. Sarcastically, he says he does not include the Telegraph, which he says only has Europe’s best interests at heart. He says a fear strategy will not work. A positive strategy is needed. He says he has tried to set out one today.
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Corbyn is now wrapping up.
I have tried to set out today some of Labour vision for Remain and Reform in the European Union.
More importantly I hope I’ve been able to restore a bit of faith in what politics can do. If you have a decent government committed to making our country and our world a better place.
I encourage you all to vote Remain on 23 June and then to support our campaign for the changes we want to see here in Britain and across Europe.
Things can and, with your help, they will change.
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Corbyn says Labour supports an EU-wide financial transaction tax
Corbyn says Labour should be supporting moves towards a financial transaction tax (aka, the Tobin tax, or Robin Hood tax).
There are currently 10 countries in Europe working together to secure a financial transactions tax across the European Union. This is a small tax on specific financial transactions to help prevent the sort of banking crash we saw a few years back, that led to the deepest economic crisis since the 1930s.
What was the British Government’s response to this proposal? To rush to Europe to oppose it, threatening legal action.
Labour wants to help drive this reform, to build support for an EU-wide tax as a step towards a global tax. We must reform our banking sector and discourage the dangerous practices that undermined the banks across Europe and globally.
The process is currently in a fragile state, despite the support of France and Germany, but imagine the impetus Britain’s support could give to the campaign, both in Europe and among major economies around the world.
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This is from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.
Corbyn talking about methane capture........ Not quite sure audience is quite staying with him after a strong start
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Corbyn calls for an EU-wide minimum wage and EU minimum standards on rights at work
Corbyn calls for new European standards on rights at work and minimum pay.
I mentioned the scandal of zero hours contracts earlier too. As well as outlawing these exploitative contracts in Britain, we should go further and work with our allies to establish a European minimum standard of rights at work to stop undercutting and give people the job security they need.
And now that Germany has introduced a minimum wage there is an opportunity to move towards a European-wide minimum wage – linked to average pay and the cost of living in each country to halt the race to the bottom in pay and conditions, and increase wages across Europe.
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Corbyn is now talking about the posting of workers directive, which he has raised at least twice at PMQs.
There is a little known EU directive, for example, called the Posting of Workers Directive. It allows companies that win contracts in another part of Europe to take workers to other countries. They can post their workers abroad temporarily, rather than go through new recruitment processes.
But legal judgements have opened up loopholes meaning that these companies are able to undercut the going rate in one country by paying the going rate in another.
In extreme cases it has meant workers not being paid the minimum wage of the country they’re working in because it is above the rate of their home nation.
This loophole can and must be closed and there is a proposal on the table to do so. Labour would work to secure agreement from other countries to back it.
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Corbyn says the UK should use its presidency of the EU next year to push for changes.
There are proposals now in Europe for country-by-country tax reporting, which means that companies pay their taxes in the countries where they make their profits.
Labour members of the European parliament have backed this plan every time, while Conservatives ones oppose it, time and time again.
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Corbyn says Labour wants the UK to remain in the EU, but in a reformed EU.
Labour is calling for a vote to remain in Europe at next week’s referendum because we believe staying in the European Union offers our people a better future in terms of jobs, investment, rights at work and environmental protection.
But we are also campaigning for reform of the European Union because we are convinced Europe needs to change to work for all, to become more democratic, strengthen workers’ rights, ditch austerity and end the pressure to privatisation.
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Corbyn says local authorities should be able to run local energy companies.
Many of you from this part of South Yorkshire will remember that miners used to get free coal. In Denmark, Portugal and Germany today communities are setting up energy companies which sell electricity back to them at discounted rates. But ridiculously, it’s illegal to do that here.
We need to learn from the best in Europe.
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Corbyn turns to immigration, and he says he challenged David Cameron in the Commons yesterday to explain why he was not taking action to stop firms advertising jobs abroad but not in the UK.
And if we want to stop insecurity at work and the exploitation of zero hours contracts that are being used to drive down pay and conditions, why don’t we do what other European countries have done and simply ban them?
Zero hours contracts are not allowed in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Spain. It seems we’re the odd one out. Our politicians now in power are choosing not to tackle exploitation, but we will.
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Corbyn condemns the Tory record on tax avoidance and excessive pay.
Does anyone here own an offshore trust? Do any of your family or friends own an offshore trust? So who was David Cameron standing up for when he wrote to the EU in November 2013 opposing proposals transparency into who owns these shady offshore trusts?
From cuts to disability benefits and cuts tax credits, to tax breaks for the super-rich and corporations. We have a government making the wrong choices and sticking up for the wrong people.
Or take another example, a couple of years ago, the EU also came forward with a proposal to restrict bankers’ bonuses and what did George Osborne do? Again he rushed to Brussels within an army of taxpayer-funded lawyers to oppose it and he lost.
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Corbyn attacks the Tory Brexiteers, saying they have made bogus spending promises and that they are not to be trusted on the NHS.
He criticises the changes introduced by the Tories in the 1980s and early 1990s.
It was those same governments of the 1980s and early 90s that deregulated the labour market so that zero hours contracts could flourish and the share of wealth going to workers fell off a cliff. It is unscrupulous employers and politicians who have allowed temporary contracts, agency and enforced part-time working, and bogus self-employment to mushroom. So blame the politicians who opened the door to rampant job insecurity.
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Corbyn is speaking at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Sheffield.Corbyn is speaking at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Sheffield.
He says he wants to try to restore some faith in politics.He says he wants to try to restore some faith in politics.
Not many people are grateful for the work politicians do. I don’t have any difficulty understanding why, the political class has let our country down in so many ways, but today I want to try and restore a bit of faith in politics, and set out how politics done in a different way, can improve our lives and our communities.Not many people are grateful for the work politicians do. I don’t have any difficulty understanding why, the political class has let our country down in so many ways, but today I want to try and restore a bit of faith in politics, and set out how politics done in a different way, can improve our lives and our communities.
Politicians are failing to address the problems facing modern workers, he says.Politicians are failing to address the problems facing modern workers, he says.
The insecurity of work the lack of good well-paid jobs, the high cost of housing, whether to rent or to buy, how we adjust to, and pay for, an ageing society, the failure to ensure decent economic growth in all parts of the country and in which we all share.The insecurity of work the lack of good well-paid jobs, the high cost of housing, whether to rent or to buy, how we adjust to, and pay for, an ageing society, the failure to ensure decent economic growth in all parts of the country and in which we all share.
That is the failure of politicians, not of the EU or of EU migrants for that matter.That is the failure of politicians, not of the EU or of EU migrants for that matter.
Too many voices in this debate are only playing that old trick the blame game. And when politicians play the blame game, it’s usually because they have nothing serious to offer themselves.Too many voices in this debate are only playing that old trick the blame game. And when politicians play the blame game, it’s usually because they have nothing serious to offer themselves.
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Jeremy Corbyn's EU speechJeremy Corbyn's EU speech
Jeremy Corbyn is delivering his EU speech now. There is a live feed at the top of this blog.Jeremy Corbyn is delivering his EU speech now. There is a live feed at the top of this blog.
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Poll suggests more people think Brexit will make them better off than worse off after 5 yearsPoll suggests more people think Brexit will make them better off than worse off after 5 years
Here are some more findings from the Ipsos MORI phone poll reported in the Evening Standard.Here are some more findings from the Ipsos MORI phone poll reported in the Evening Standard.
The underlying findings are probably even more worrying for Remain than the headline numbers. That is because they show that Remain’s key message - that leaving the EU would be bad for the economy - is failing to make an impact, because people don’t believe they will be worse off.The underlying findings are probably even more worrying for Remain than the headline numbers. That is because they show that Remain’s key message - that leaving the EU would be bad for the economy - is failing to make an impact, because people don’t believe they will be worse off.
The poll also shows that, amazingly, people are more likely to believe the Vote Leave claim that EU membership costs £350m than to disbelieve it - even though it is had been comprehensively dismissed as misleading at best, or outright dishonest at worst, by just about every economic authority there is. This finding alone is devastating for the factchecking industry. They must be wondering now what’s the point.The poll also shows that, amazingly, people are more likely to believe the Vote Leave claim that EU membership costs £350m than to disbelieve it - even though it is had been comprehensively dismissed as misleading at best, or outright dishonest at worst, by just about every economic authority there is. This finding alone is devastating for the factchecking industry. They must be wondering now what’s the point.
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McDonnell says the problems facing the world are international ones that require international solutions.McDonnell says the problems facing the world are international ones that require international solutions.
The live feed has now gone down, but I will post some more from the speech when I get some words.The live feed has now gone down, but I will post some more from the speech when I get some words.
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McDonnell says the Leave campaign have taken the debate into the political gutter.McDonnell says the Leave campaign have taken the debate into the political gutter.
He says some on the Leave side, including Boris Johnson, have decided where they stand on the EU “purely on the basis of their future ambitions”.He says some on the Leave side, including Boris Johnson, have decided where they stand on the EU “purely on the basis of their future ambitions”.
The Tory infighting has squeezed out the Labour voice in the campaign, he says.The Tory infighting has squeezed out the Labour voice in the campaign, he says.
But he says it is now clear that the Labour family has come together and that it is united in campaigning for Remain.But he says it is now clear that the Labour family has come together and that it is united in campaigning for Remain.
And it is important to stress that it would be a Tory Brexit, he says. A Tory government would use it as an opportunity to cut rights.And it is important to stress that it would be a Tory Brexit, he says. A Tory government would use it as an opportunity to cut rights.
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John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, is speaking now at the Labour rally.
He says he and Gordon Brown last stood on a platform together in 2007, when he wanted to challenge Brown for the Labour leadership.
This week is critical, McDonnell says.
There are 10 or 15% of people who have not made their minds up. And there is another 10/15% who are not sure. So there is “all to play for”, he says.
He says the debate has not matched the importance of what is at stake.
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Sir Richard Leese, the Labour leader of Manchester city council, is speaking now at the Labour event.
He says the EU has contributed to a new transport scheme in the city.
There has been a revival in the great cities in Britain, he says. He says EU funding has helped to enable this renovation to happen.
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Brown says the EU has helped to guarantee peace in Europe.
He talks about the way the EU cooperated when Eastern Europe fell. And think about what more the EU could achieve do deal with the problems facing the world, like hunger and poverty, if it cooperated further, he says in his peroration.
It was a powerful end to a speech which mostly was a repeat of one that Brown has already made several times over recent weeks on the campaign trail. I will post some quotes soon.
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Brown says all his political career he has campaigned for jobs. And there is no route to full employment for the UK that does not involve EU membership, he says.
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Gordon Brown and John McDonnell speak at Labour In rally
Gordon Brown, the Labour former prime minister, and John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, are speaking at a Labour In for Britain rally in Manchester now.
They are on opposite wings of the party, and McDonnell tried to challenge Brown for the leadership in 2007, although he could not get enough nominations to force a contest. But they are both speaking in favour of Remain.
Brown is speaking now.
He says Labour has been saying for years the NHS is under-funded. Now Tories are saying that. And Labour has been saying for years you cannot trust the Tories on the NHS. Now even Tories are saying that.
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Ipsos MORI poll gives Leave a 6-point lead
A new Ipsos MORI poll for the Evening Standard gives Leave a six-point lead. Here’s an extract from the story.
In a dramatic turnaround since May, some 53 per cent now want to leave and 47 per cent want to stay, excluding don’t knows.
It is the first time since David Cameron pledged the referendum in January 2013 that Vote Leave have come out ahead in the respected monthly Ipsos MORI telephone survey, which is exclusive to the Evening Standard.
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And the Dutch seem to be keen on the UK staying too, if this is anything go to by.
Have a read of this and tell me you aren't touched. This appeared in a Dutch newspaper today. A great nation. #EURef pic.twitter.com/xWIy7i1C1W
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Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has taken to Twitter this morning to say he wants the UK to stay in the EU.
El #Brexit sería un paso atrás en el proceso europeo. Deseamos que Reino Unido continúe en Europa y sigamos reforzando la UE #RajoyenRNE
According to Google, this translates into English as:
The #Brexit would be a step backwards in the European process. We want UK continue in Europe and continue strengthening the EU #RajoyenRNE
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Rowena Mason
Boris Johnson was up early this morning to visit a fish processing unit in Lowestoft in Suffolk, where he once again denied having ambitions to be prime minister.
Flanked by Vote Leave supporters, he held up a salmon and declared the EU was “pinching our fish”.
Urged by one worker, John Knights, to become prime minister, he replied: “No that’s not going to happen.”
Speaking outside the factory, George Eustice, the fishing minister and Vote Leave supporter, said he wanted to revert to the international rules that mean the UK would control fishing rights for 200 miles around the coastline.
But he acknowledged a new deal would have to be struck to allow reciprocal arrangements with other countries, rather than stopping foreign boats coming into UK waters.
“I would see the reestablishment of international law as the starting point for a renegotiation of both access rights and quota allocations,” Eustice said.
Both he and Johnson claimed leaving the EU would help rejuvenate coastal towns like Lowestoft, while admitting it would not happen overnight.
Christine Blowers, 63, a Vote Leave activist who had turned out at 7am to greet Johnson, said she would advise her grandchildren to move to Australia if the UK decides to remain.
“We want another election. To threaten elderly people! We could be threatened but we are not because we’ve lost everything. What else can we lose? We’ve lost livelihoods and our industry. Boris Johnson or Gove, we’re not bothered which. But someone who cares enough to rebuild us,” she said.
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Boris Johnson was up early this morning for a Vote Leave visit to a fish processing factory in Lowestoft.
About a dozen Vote Leave supporters have turned out to cheer Boris arrival at a fish processing factory - at 7.20am pic.twitter.com/qit8vbuJ6e
I have not seen any words yet from the visit, but the photographs are a treat. If this was a contest about posing for silly pictures, Leave would obviously win by a mile. Ruth Davidson is now slouch in this field, but Johnson seems determined to do better.
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