Angela Eagle MP, Labour’s Shadow First Secretary of State and Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, commenting on Rolls Royce CEO Warren East’s letter to staff arguing that EU membership is best for the company, said:

“This is yet further evidence of the benefits membership of the largest single market brings to British workers and businesses. Nine out of ten economists agree that Britain is better off in and that a vote to leave the EU is a threat to jobs and the economy.

“Rolls Royce is a world-leading engineering company and employs 23,000 staff in the UK. This letter to staff makes clear that the uncertainty of a vote to leave the EU would be unsettling for the company. 

“This referendum is a vote about jobs and workers’ rights, which would both be threatened by Brexit. Labour believes passionately that working people are better off in the EU.”