Labour spokesman on Europe Pat McFadden told FPA members that the Pope had been correct about the risks faced by migrants from North Africa, “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a graveyard”. He said Labour was calling for a resumption of funding for the EU Triton search and rescue operation. It wasn’t fair to leave it all to Italy, he said.
Mr McFadden said Labour would resist the forces of nationalism and isolation in this General Election. Britain was flirting with the possibility of leaving the EU because of weak leadership; the Prime Minister had put party management before the national interest.
He said the centre of gravity in today’s Labour Party was pro EU and a Labour Government would be a force for reform in Europe, not a battering ram for Brexit. His colleague Gareth Thomas from the shadow Foreign Office team said the Labour campaign on the ground was going very well and the Labour activist base in the country had been growing since 2010.
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