THE Leave campaign has failed to answer the overwhelming economic case for staying in the EU and can only "whinge and whine about scaremongering," former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has said.

In a passionate speech urging Labour supporters to vote Remain, he said economists agreed that Britain would suffer if the country voted to Leave on June 23.

He said that, faced with compelling evidence, the "only response of the Leave campaign is to whinge and whine about scaremongering and 'project fear'."

Putting the economic case for the EU, he added: "It is not alarmist. It is not doom-mongering.

"It is risk analysis. It is due diligence. It is look before you leap.

"No-one should buy a car before doing that let alone decide the future of their country.

"It is not scaremongering, it is not project fear. It is common sense."

Lord Kinnock cited authorities including the Bank of England and International Monetary Fund as he claimed Britain would lose investment if it were to leave the EU.

He said the Leave campaign had been reduced to "shabby, short-sighted slogans" that were "not worth the paint on the side of a battle bus".

He was speaking at a rally at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall organised by The Labour Movement for Europe.

"It is obvious that staying in the EU is the best way to safeguard the cohesion and the political and economic wellbeing of the UK

"That's why the Labour movement is emphatically for remain," he told supporters.

Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, said EU funds has helped rebuild communities scarred by the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s.

He also credited the EU with introducing important protections for workers against the wishes of Conservative ministers.

"Sometimes the EU has to defend the British people against the Tories," he said.

He recalled how, during their first meeting after he became an MP, Lady Thatcher pronounced his Cowdenbeath constituency as 'Codenbeth'.