Members of Britain’s main opposition labour Party launched a campaign on Wednesday to leave the EU at an upcoming referendum, the latest initiative as the debate over Britain’s EU membership heats up.
The labour leave campaign is fronted by four veteran MPs and backed by millionaire businessman John Mills, the party’s biggest individual donor in recent years.
While labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was anti-EU before being elected to the top job last year, he now says the party will campaign for Britain to stay in the EU in a referendum expected to be held this year. Kate Hoey, one of the labour MPs launching the labour leave campaign, called the EU “anti-democratic, anti-socialist, unaccountable”. “I think this is going to end up in a situation where we have the establishment actually leading on this and the people rebelling and that’s what we’ll be working for,” she said.