Election flop Ed Miliband wades into EU debate by claiming Brexit will harm environment
FORMER Labour leader Ed Miliband has joined forces with pro-EU Tories in a desperate attempt to claim Brexit would damage the environment.
Ed Miliband has waded into the Brexit debate
The election flop signed a declaration with Environment Secretary Liz Truss and called campaigning for backing Brexit “extreme and outdated”.
Along with former Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey and the Green Party's Caroline Lucas they wrote: "Collective action is the only solution to rising seas and rising temperatures.
The former Labour Party leader said quitting the EU would damage the environment
"The European Union is central to both these challenges.”
The Europhiles claimed that membership in the 28-member bloc supports domestic action to improve air quality, protect nature and wildlife and invest in renewable energy.
They also describe Brussels as "a leader in the battle to secure binding agreements" internationally.
Miliband signed a declaration with Liz Truss
Those campaigning for Britain to leave Europe cannot be trusted on the environment
They added: "Those campaigning for Britain to leave Europe cannot be trusted on the environment.
"They have opposed vital green measures and denounced climate change as 'mumbo jumbo'.
"They demonstrate a cavalier ignorance about climate matters which embodies the extreme and out-dated outlook of those who want to leave."
But marine environment minister George Eustice said the EU had "systematically undermined” the UK's place on international wildlife conventions.
He said: “We have already been stripped of our voting rights on regional fisheries management organisations.
Vote Leave supporter George Eustice rubbished the claimed by the Europhiles
"And extraordinarily, it is now unlawful for the UK to speak at wildlife conventions like Cites without first getting permission for what we want to say from the European Commission.
“If we vote to leave and take control, the UK would regain its own seat and its voice in vital international wildlife conventions and everything from promoting shark conservation to ending whaling would become much easier.”