Emma today has written to The Guardian newspaper with other MPs. In the letter she explains why the Labour Party is supporting Britain’s continued EU membership to protect workers rights.

“With respect to our parliamentary colleagues and fellow trade unionists (Letters, 7 June), who are among a small minority of Labour MPs and trade unionists who support leaving Europe, it is worth remembering that it was the last Labour government that signed up to the European social chapter. It is British ministers accountable to our parliament and elected MEPs who make European laws, not the European commission. It is curious that anybody on the left would trust a rightwing government led by Boris Johnson and supported by Nigel Farage in the event of a leave vote. It is factually wrong to suggest that UK law on its own underpins these rights. Paid annual leave, rights for agency and part-time workers and anti-discrimination laws are guaranteed by EU law, and would all be at risk. If we leave the EU, the recession that the Bank of England governor has warned about would hit our constituents on low and middle incomes the hardest and would mean less money for our public services like schools and the NHS. That is why the Labour party is calling on everybody who cares about keeping workers’ rights and our future prosperity to vote remain on 23 June.”

Emma Reynolds MP, Ben Bradshaw MP, Pat McFadden MP, Phil Wilson MP, Tristram Hunt MP, Rachel Reeves MP, Conor McGinn MP, Mary Creagh MP, Stephen Doughty MP, Wes Streeting MP, Julie Elliot MP, Chuka Umunna MP, Adrian Bailey MP, Stella Creasy MP, Alison McGovern MP, David Hanson MP, Jamie Reed MP, Ruth Smeeth MP, Shabana Mahmood MP, John Woodcock MP, Dan Jarvis MP, Neil Coyle MP, Rushnara Ali MP, Liz Kendall MP, Ann Coffey MP, Chris Evans MP, Jo Cox MP, Joan Ryan MP, Chris Leslie MP

You may also read the letter here.