A “LEFT Against Brexit” tour of cities nationwide is to take place this summer, seeking to put pressure on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to back Britain staying in the European Union.

The pro-Remain campaign will be headed up by outgoing Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas, transport union TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes, Labour Party activist Michael Chessum, Labour MEP Julie Ward and former shadow Foreign Office minister Catherine West, who was sacked from the front bench last year for defying the whip by voting to remain in the EU single market.

The group argues that Labour should not be bound by the result of the 2016 referendum, which Mr Cortes described as a “right-wing brainchild won — and only narrowly — on a deceitful programme of dog-whistle racism and the big lie that the NHS would get £350 million a week.”