article_snippet: Mr Brown had made the claim in a newspaper article published before last night's debate.
article_snippet: In Mr Brown claimed that Tory Eurosceptics and Ukip have instigated a 'culture war' urging disaffected Britons to blame foreigners for economic problems and so turning people against Europe.
article_snippet: The former prime minister railed against those on the right who have sought to address voters' concerns about globalisation by creating a 'siege mentality' that pits Britain against the continent, portraying support for Europe as unpatriotic.
article_snippet: In what is likely to be The former prime minister Commons swansong, the Labour giant said the only way progressives can win the 'culture war' to keep Britain in the European Union is by winning hearts as well as minds.
article_snippet: It came after Gordon Brown claimed Britain would be like Kim Jong Un's pariah state (above) Gordon Brown cautioned against a 'London establishment-led, corporate financed' statistics-heavy campaign by 'elites' against leaving the EU as 'technical arguments are not enough to trump cultural grievances'.
article_snippet: Gordon Brown told the Commons: 'There is no doubt that millions of our fellow citizens feel more insecure than ever because of what is the bewildering pace and destructiveness of what to millions of our fellow citizens often seems an out of control and uncontrollable global economy, and millions of our fellow citizens are looking for someone or something to shelter, insulate, protect and cushion someone or something to shelter from these bewildering, often alien forces that have taken someone or something to shelter livelihoods on occasion from someone or something to shelter.
article_snippet: As they look for someone to hold responsible, and now they are being urged to turn what started off as economic protest, rather than a cultural prejudice, into a culture war - the main weapon of which is to blame foreigners, target immigrants and engender a siege mentality against the outsider.'
article_snippet: Gordon Brown said: 'I have to say that in this culture war, arid statistics about exports and investment from a well-meaning, London establishment-led, corporate-financed campaign of 'the great and the good', who will be accused of being elites who don't understand Britain, will appear to many voters no match for the cultural charge from the right that Britain has ceased to be the Britain that many voters know and love. '
article_snippet: You cannot win in a culture war which asserts Britain is no longer a country you recognise just with fact
article_snippet: Technical arguments are not enough to trump cultural grievances. '
article_snippet: When you are fighting back in a culture war that others have started, you must take on strongly felt sets of beliefs with other strongly felt sets of beliefs. '