Nightmarish ‘Boris Johnsons’ join Labour as party warns of £18billion cuts in post-Brexit Britain
Opposition accusing Brexiteers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove of playing on people's fears about immigration
LABOUR is warning of a post-Brexit nightmare scenario where with Boris Johnson as the Prime Minister Britain could face £18billion of spending cuts and tax rises.
Activists brought this idea to life with eerie BoJo masks as the Opposition party stepped up its Remain campaign.
The 'Boris Johnsons' joined Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson and other senior party figures as they presented figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies at a press conference today.
Mr Watson said the data showed the poorest people in Britain would be deeply affected by Brexit and believed the Tory government would be ‘looking to announce further austerity if they are to balance the books by the end of the Parliament’.
He said: “Working people across the UK face a double threat if we vote to Leave: a massive black hole in the public finances, and an unfair Tory government that will make ordinary families pay for it through further cuts and tax rises.
“Labour is clear that Britain is better off in Europe.
“It brings us jobs, growth and investment, protects British workers and consumers and helps keep us safe.
"Leaving would put that at risk.
“People like Boris Johnson and Michael Gove might be able to afford that risk – but millions of working people across our country simply can’t.”
Yvette Cooper tried to ensure Labour voters would vote for Remain by saying the Leave campaign was being led by the Tory party who had never been friends to public services of low-paid workers.
And she accused prominent Brexit campaigners Boris Johnson and Michael Gove of a "con trick" on voters.
At the Labour event she said: "People are worried about immigration.
“It's something I have long talked about as well and we do have to respond to people's concerns on immigration."
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She added: "It's why I also think that more reforms are going to be needed.
"The challenge to us now is that this is a con trick that is coming from the Conservatives - whether it is on immigration, whether it is on jobs, whether it is on the NHS, whether it is on the figures all over their bus - time and again it is false claim, false promise.
“It is irresponsible.
"Boris Johnson and Michael Gove know what they are doing by playing on people's fears."
"If this was a sensible, sober straight conversation about immigration, that would be a responsible thing to do.
"But that's not what Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are doing because they have got posters up everywhere about Turkey which they know are pushing a lie because they know that Turkey is not about to join Europe."
And in a speech in Westminster Labour’s former leader Ed Miliband warned of a ‘bleak future’ for workers if Britain leaves the EU.
He said: “The Leave campaign are trying to perpetrate what I can only describe as a fraud on the British people.
“Tories who in the last days of this contest are trying to disguise themselves in Labour clothes.
“Let's be clear what the Leave agenda would mean for working people.
“They want out of Europe so we can be out of the social chapter, as Boris Johnson said in terms in 2012.
“Their competitiveness strategy for Britain is deregulation and the erosion of rights of working people.”