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Brexit is ‘based on prejudice’ says Miliband

Former Labour Leader Ed Miliband hosts a question and answer session with young people to discuss the European Union referendum (Dominic Lipinski/ PA)
Former Labour Leader Ed Miliband hosts a question and answer session with young people to discuss the European Union referendum (Dominic Lipinski/ PA)

FORMER Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned parts of the campaign to take Britain out of  the EU are “based on prejudice”.

Mr Miliband launched the attack as he expressed fears that a failure by young people to register to vote could hand the Brexit camp an accidental victory.

“I think you see elements from the Leave campaign based on prejudice,” Mr Miliband said at an event aimed at encouraging young voters to turn out.

“When Nigel Farage says on television to Peter Mandelson ‘you are rubbing our noses in diversity’, I think that’s an offensive remark.”

The intervention came as Tory in-fighting escalated with pro-Brexit employment minister Priti Patel launching a scathing attack on the “chaos” of Britain’s immigration controls, as she ridiculed economic predictions from Government colleagues in the Treasury.

Mr Miliband insisted that immigration was good for Britain, and the “flip side” was that young British people could travel and work freely across the EU.

Asked about concerns mass migration was pushing down wages, Mr Miliband said: “We would do far, far more damage to people on lower incomes by leaving the European Union.

“Economically we would do damage. The loss of workers’ rights will do damage.”

The ex-Labour leader warned that 1.5 million of the six million 18-24-year-olds eligible to vote were not registered, nor were a quarter of the eight million 25-35-year-olds.

“Today is a call to arms to all young people to register to vote. Let’s be clear about the danger – a decision not to vote is a decision to let someone else decide your future.

“Young people can decide this referendum. If they don’t use their vote, the danger is this referendum will be lost,” Mr Miliband said.

His comments on prejudice and wages helped put immigration back at the centre of the debate as Ms Patel launched a thinly veiled swipe at pro-Remain Home Secretary Theresa May.

Ms Patel said: “There is another great bonus of leaving the EU. We’ll be able to design a new immigration system that brings the chaos under control and helps the economy.

“It’s uncontrolled and uncontrollable while we remain in the EU.

“If the Government seriously believed all the doom-laden propaganda it has been pumping out about the horrors oflife after the EU, it would never have called this referendum in the first place.

“The Government thinks it can predict what will happen in the economy in 2030.

“Last November, the Treasury said there was going to be a windfall of £27 billion from unexpectedly high tax receipts.

“When the Budget came round in March, that had turned into a £56 billion shortfall.

“Fourteen years ahead? They can’t even predict 14 weeks ahead.”

The move came as Mr Cameron said he would not reconsider comments that Boris Johnson, George Osborne and Mrs May were all figures who could step into his shoes when he steps down, as he has promised he will before the next general election.


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