Jeremy Corbyn new poster boy for Leave campaign Pro-Brexiteers have unveiled a new recruit to their cause – Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour leader is leading attempts to persuade wavering […]

Pro-Brexiteers have unveiled a new recruit to their cause – Jeremy Corbyn.

The Labour leader is leading attempts to persuade wavering supporters of the party to support Remain.

But Vote Leave have seized on past comments by Corbyn to urge Labour supporters to put their cross in the Out box.

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Their latest poster features a smiling picture of the party’s leader.

Alongside the photo it runs an old quote from him: “The EU takes away from national parliaments the power to set economic policy and hands it over to an unelected set of bankers who will impose the economic policies of price stability, deflation and high unemployment throughout the European Community.”

And it adds the message: “If you agree with Jeremy and will vote Leave on 23rd June, sign up below.”

The Labour MP Graham Jones described the tactic as “scraping bottom of desperation barrel”.

Corbyn ‘reluctant Remainer’

Vote Leave’s intervention came as Corbyn – flanked by his shadow Cabinet and union leaders – prepared to renew his appeal for a Remain vote.

Many Labour MPs are privately dismayed he has not taken a more outspoken and high-profile stance in favour of EU membership.

Surveys suggest many Labour voters still do not know where the party stands on the EU.

His party critics suspect Corbyn – who voted against membership of the European Economic Community in 1975 – is a ‘reluctant Remainer’.

Three days ago he rated his passion for staying in the bloc at about “seven or seven and a half” out of ten.