Despite sharing concerns on immigration, Wycombe Labour have pointed to sixty years of peace in Europe as one of the main reasons to remain in the EU.

Here, Wycombe Labour spokesman Linda Derrick writes to give her views on the EU Referendum debate:

The Labour Party believes the UK should remain in the EU because it underpins investment, jobs, protection for workers, customers and the environment – and 60 years of peace in Europe.

We know many Wycombe voters are concerned about the loss of UK sovereignty.

But no country has absolute sovereignty (except perhaps countries like North Korea – and who would like to live there?) Democratic countries have learnt to share some of their sovereignty – to compromise, negotiate and agree to deals which aren’t quite what they want.

They learn that restrictions on their freedom to act unilaterally in some areas is the price they pay to get co-operation in tackling global problems like war, terrorism, mass migration, famine, climate change and the power of multinational organisations.

We know many Wycombe voters are also concerned about immigration.

Most are concerned because public services – schools, children’s services, the NHS – are failing and couldn’t cope with an influx of immigrants from the EU.

Wycombe Labour shares these concerns.

However, this failure of public services is largely a problem of the Tories’ own making.

The Tories said they would lower taxes and cut public services. So now public services can’t cope with demand and has little capacity to respond to crisis.

We also have to accept that migration will continue. If we leave the EU but still want to trade in Europe on preferential terms, we will have to accept free movement of labour with the EU. We will still have migration from non-EU countries.

The question is whether we deal with that migration alone, and with our border at Dover not Calais, or as a member of the EU.