Labour In for Britain

Labour In for Britain (or Labour In) was the Labour Party campaign to put forward a "progressive" case for Remain during the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.[2]

Labour In for Britain

Formation	1 December 2015[1]
Founders	Alan Johnson
Purpose	Campaign "for Britain to stay in Europe"
Region served	United Kingdom
Affiliations	Labour
Website	labourinforbritain.org.uk

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It was launched by former Home Secretary and Labour MP Alan Johnson on 1 December 2015, who was asked by Acting Leader Harriet Harman earlier in the year to set up the group, and was ran separately to the cross party Britain Stronger in Europe campaign.[3]

The Labour Party has been broadly Pro-European in recent years, with a vast proportion of the Parliamentary Labour Party advocates of membership of the EU and of the campaign.[4]

This contrasts starkly with sources suggesting that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and other senior leadership figures are privately Eurosceptic and want the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.[5] Prominent members of the campaign, including chair of its parliamentary branch Phil Wilson, subsequently criticised Corbyn for trying to "weaken and sabotage" the campaign.[6]