The Lexiteers include a section of the trade union movement and smaller Left groups and parties. Today he supports Remain, even though a significant Left group remain strongly pro-Brexit — or Lexit (Left for Exit) as they call themselves. Brexiteers counter this by saying that EU migrants put an enormous strain on the National Health Service, housing, schools and the social infrastructure. If the British Right is split on the referendum, so too is Britain’s Left and trade union segment. Leaving the EU offers Britain the potential and the objective basis, the Lexiteers argue, to create a sovereign state based on greater social and economic fairness in the long term.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2016 00:33 UTC