LABOUR’S leadership will not take part in the toxic Tory scaremongering campaign ahead of the EU referendum, John McDonnell vowed yesterday. 

The shadow chancellor made the pledge before embarking on a week-long speaking tour as part of the Another Europe Is Possible campaign, starting in Wolverhampton.

He said: “The EU referendum is about our future relationship with Europe, not who is the next leader of the Tory Party, which is why I think there is a positive case to be made and it’s vital young people hear this case over the personal ambitions of different Tory MPs.

??“The Labour leadership will not go anywhere near the Tories’ ‘project fear’ campaign on both sides of the debate. 

“But instead we will continue to set out the positive case to ‘Remain and Reform’ the EU to create ‘Another Europe’ and reject Tory Brexit.”

Mr McDonnell’s attempt to put distance between the Labour and Tory campaigns comes amid controversy over the decision of senior party figures to campaign alongside Prime Minister David Cameron.

Labour’s former acting leader Harriet Harman visited a supermarket with Mr Cameron last week to highlight claims that food prices will rise if Britain breaks with Brussels on June 23. 

And Mayor of London Sadiq Khan posed alongside the PM yesterday at a Remain campaign stunt, only four weeks after the Tory leader had attempted to link Britain’s most senior Muslim politician with Islamic extremists.

This time hypocrite Mr Cameron changed his tune, celebrating the fact that “someone who is a proud Muslim, a proud Brit and a proud Londoner can become mayor of the greatest city on Earth.”

Alluding to his past smears, the PM said: “We will disagree about many things — we have in the past, I’m sure we will again in the future.

“But we are both on the side of London, we are both on the side of the United Kingdom.”

Mr Khan said he was prepared to work closely with the Tory government “where it is in Londoners’ interests.”

He said he respected the refusal of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to campaign for In seperately from the Tories, saying he was doing a “huge amount” in other ways.

Mr Corbyn will set out Labour’s ambitions to reform the EU at the final Another Europe rally in Cardiff on Friday.