TRADE unionists must not let the Brexit debate divide the working class, RMT general secretary Mick Cash told Scottish TUC delegates on Monday evening.

Mr Cash told a fringe meeting organised by the Radical Options for Scotland and Europe campaign that a second referendum would “rip us asunder.” He argued such a move would “not only damage our democracy but divide and damage our class.”

Scottish Labour parliamentary candidate Helen McFarlane argued that the Brexit debate was taking place on the wrong terms. “We need to reach out and say ‘this is the vision we want to build,’ and then our follow-up questions are the constitutional ones,” she said.