FORMER Labour MP Nigel Griffiths and former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars united yesterday to call for a Leave vote in the EU referendum.

At the launch of the Scottish Leave campaign in Edinburgh Mr Griffiths warned that “the EU is failing to reconnect with millions of voters who want to keep the £19 billion we give the EU every year and spend it here on our priorities like steel, fishing and manufacturing.”

He warned that “free movement of labour rules are allowing unscrupulous employers to import cheap foreign labour and force down UK wage rates,” adding that the Bank of Scotland produced a report last year showing that wages had dropped 2 per cent as a result.