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Labour should have no illusions in the EU
The successful vote to leave the European Union was working class and anti-capitalist – we must stand by it, insists ROBERT GRIFFITHS

PAUL SWEENEY MP urges the Labour left to present a “united front” on the issue of Brexit (M Star April 11).

The price he demands for such unity is the total capitulation of Leave supporters and even Remain Eurosceptics to a catalogue of illusions about the character of the EU and the prospects for reforming it.

He prefaces his argument with the claim that pro-Leavers are portraying most Labour Party Remainers as “neoliberals” who long for the pre-2016 era of triangulation and membership passivity.

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