UNITE dramatically ramped up pressure on Labour yesterday with a call for an in-out vote on the EU following the 2015 election.

Delegates at the huge Labour funder’s Liverpool conference fiercely debated an executive position urging that British people be asked their view, becoming the first big Labour-affiliated union to do so.

The motion condemned the bloc for imposing “great suffering on the people of Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere,” attacking labour rights and forcing through privatisation policies.