Thirty gay MPs and peers today weighed into the EU referendum battle with a call to the lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and intersex community to unite behind the Remain banner.

In a letter to the Evening Standard marking International Day Against Homophobia, they hailed the EU’s role in promoting human rights worldwide and claimed that it would all be put at risk by a Brexit.

“A lot has been achieved but there’s still more to be done,” said the letter, whose signatories include Labour shadow business secretary Angela Eagle, Tory Scottish Secretary David Mundell and the former EastEnders actor Lord Cashman, a founding member of Stonewall

Source:  London Evening Standard