Responding to Boris Johnson’s comments admitting there might be job losses if we leave the EU, Alan Johnson MP, Chair of Labour In For Britain, said:

“Boris Johnson’s admission that jobs and our fragile growth would be put at risk by leaving the EU is at least honest. But it highlights the instability and uncertainty that wrenching Britain away from the EU would create.

“Labour will continue to make the case for Britain to remain part of the biggest commercial market in the world with all its protections for workers, consumers and the environment, rather than wandering off into an uncertain and isolated future.”

ENDS

Notes

Boris Johnson admitted there ‘might’ be job losses if we leave the EU.

Andrew Marr: ‘Before you get to the Sunday cup lines, there would be a period of dislocation, uncertainty and job loss. You yourself have used the very clear metaphor of the Nike tick. And as we all understand these days, the Nike tick goes up in the swoosh, but it goes down first. There would be a period where people would lose their jobs.

Boris Johnson: There might. It might or it might not’ (Marr Show, 6 March 2016)