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Last week I asked my taxi driver, an Indian migrant, how he was voting. “You won’t like it John,” he replied sheepishly. I’m voting ‘leave’! If we come out we can give the NHS more money.”

It’s a line I hear a lot.

Leave’s claim that “we send £350million a week to the EU ... let’s fund our NHS instead” has been slammed as inaccurate and misleading by the UK Statistics Authority and the cross-party Treasury Select Committee.

The misleading slogan is emblazoned on Leave’s battle bus of shame.

But the true figure is barely half of that £350million, as it doesn’t include a deducted rebate and the benefits we get back.

Even Vote Leave supporter and former GP Dr Sarah Woolaston accused Boris Johnson’s Brexit campaign of “deliberately misleading” the public. It offended her so much she has now joined the Remain campaign. I suppose doctors are entitled to a second opinion.

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But it’s time people realised that this has stopped being a referendum on the EU.

This is a General Election in all but name. You can either vote with Labour to Remain. Or vote Leave and let Boris Johnson become PM.

Boris’s Brexit Cabinet will be so right-wing and extreme they’ll make the Bullingdon Boys look like Fidel Castro.

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In the past Johnson has called for the scrapping of the EU’s Social Charter which protects employment rights. This was the social chapter that Major opted out of as PM but we enacted when Labour came to power.

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Almost all UK employment law, including health and safety law and the legal right to paid holidays and maternity leave, are protected by us being in the EU. If we come out it would allow hard-right Tories to scrap those rights.

Then there’s fellow Brexiter Michael Gove – a former Rupert Murdoch journalist – who laughably paints himself as the scourge of bankers and the “elites”.

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This is the guy who constantly voted against Labour’s plans for a tax on banker’s bonuses to help fund 100,000 jobs for young people.

He even employed a former chair of banking giant Goldman Sachs to advise him on education... and he went to Murdoch’s wedding.

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More worryingly, Gove contributed to a book of Tory ideas that proposed “denationalising” the NHS, replacing it with an insurance market system.

Or how about Chris Grayling. An unmitigated disaster as Justice Secretary. He wants us to pull us out of the European Convention on Human Rights – rights that have spread democracy and social justice across the continent.

Another Brexiter who could enter the Cabinet is Priti Patel.

A former lobbyist for tobacco companies, she has wanted to bring back the death penalty and said cutting disabled people’s benefits by £30 a week is justified as it will help those with a “limited capability” to work find a job. Do you really believe these people will pump money into the NHS? The Tories have already cut NHS spending from Labour’s average of nine per cent of a country’s Gross Domestic Product to seven per cent.

NHS supremo Simon Stevens said the shock to the economy from Brexit would hit funding and be “very dangerous”.

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And it’s a bit rich of these Tories to complain that the sons and daughters of EU migrants are overcrowding our schools when it was Gove who cancelled Labour’s school building programme.

Vote Leave wants to take control – of your employment rights, your NHS and your future.

Vote to Leave and you’ll elect an even more rabid, out-of-touch and dangerous Tory Government than we already have. So I appeal to Labour voters especially, and to anyone who cares about the NHS and social justice, to consider this:

Being in a social Europe reflects our values in the workplace and in civil society so much more than this Tory Government.

Voting for Boris and Brexit will see you lose control of workers’ rights, our NHS and a prosperous future. So vote with Labour.

And vote Remain.