UKIP and Tory outers use the language of nationalism in the EU referendum debate. But there is a democratic socialist argument for Brexit, and the Labour Party should be making it.

Jeremy Corbyn suggests the EU can become socially progressive. No: it’s an institution of the banking and business establishment, governed by a remote administration over which we have no democratic influence.

If Labour opposes low wages and unemployment, austerity, the imposition of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and NHS privatisation, the party should support Brexit.

EU free-market rules have made millions of young people across the continent unemployed. Berlin and the European Central Bank crushed the Greek government’s anti-austerity policies.

Any reforming Labour government will find itself in a straight-jacket of restrictive EU regulations.

But of all policies that benefit business and the elites at the expense of workers, free movement of cheap labour is key.

As a Labour supporter and trade unionist, I’ll vote in the interests of workers and communities in this country. I’ll vote to leave.

Colin Hall, Tower Place, York