'Labour have focused too much on economic arguments for Remain, and not enough about how the EU protects our rights.' PAimages/Hannah McKay. All rights reserved.Of the many strange aspects of the debate over the Brexit referendum I should add how little stress the Remain camp gives to EU protection of human rights.
I should expect this from the Conservatives. Since long before he became prime minister, David Cameron pledged that he would opt-out from the “EU Social Chapter”, then attempted unsuccessfully to do that during his negotiations last year in Brussels.
However, when I went to the website of Labour In For Britain, I was more than a bit disappointed that the centre-piece video designed to convince people to vote “yes” makes no mention of any aspect of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It is listed further down the web page, but without a link to the Charter itself. The video, all 93 seconds of it, focuses only on “jobs”, “investment” and “exports”. This makes its pitch hardly distinguishable from the position of the Cameron government (whose website is more elaborate).
