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BREXIT would set the Tories free to light a bonfire of workers’ rights, Jeremy Corbyn (pictured) warned yesterday as he made the “socialist case” for remaining in the European Union.
The Labour leader predicted legislation on equal rights, maximum working hours, paid holiday and agency workers would all be set ablaze if there is a Leave vote on June 23.
He conjured a nightmare scenario of a government led by Boris Johnson and backed by Nigel Farage that would “negotiate the worst of all worlds — a free market free-for-all shorn of rights and protections.”
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all
