On its masthead, the paper states that it supports peace and socialism, and it is also Eurosceptic. The "Morning Star" and the "Spectator" were the only publications to campaign for an Exit vote in the 1975 referendum. Tony Benn (described as "the "de facto" leader of the "Out" campaign") campaigned alongside the paper. Over thirty years later the "Morning Star" supported the No2EU platform in the 2009 European Parliament election. The paper was also supportive of Britain's vote in 2016 to leave the EU, saying that "Anybody who supports the election of a Corbyn government with a mandate to end austerity, extend public ownership, redistribute wealth and restructure our economy in the interests of working people needs to explain how this agenda can be implemented in the framework of an EU that bans so much of it", criticising the referendum campaign as being headed by "reactionary zealots" such as Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.