“It’s rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.”
The fervent believer in the European project was also an early advocate of market economics. We send our commiserations to his widow and family.
We’re off! The new organisation for Brexit has a no-nonsense message, all-party support, lots of money – and should become the official Leave campaign.
The French President was commendably honest when he responded to Farage.
Steve Baker MP said Britain needs “a common market with the world”.
66 per cent declare themselves likely to support quitting the EU, and 30 per cent likely to back staying in it.
Plus: Our fringe programme for Manchester in full, including other major events on families policy with Priti Patel and how to respond to Corbyn with Liam Fox.
Plus our usual monthly questions – including a final shot at who the Conservative candidate should be for next year’s London Mayoral election.
Frankly, we need to get through all this without a split. Resources neutrality is essential to that end.
The latest social action project undertaken by the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists.
Perhaps the most important question is whether or not the money and manpower of the two big parties is deployed during the campaign.
If controlling our growth involves a rupture with the EU over the ‘freedom of movement issue’, then – in my view – that is a price which must be paid.
Like the Scottish referendum, this referendum cannot really bring closure.
We have said all along that we would move to address those concerns with clear rules about what taxpayer-funded resources can and cannot do.
Progress has been made, but a narrow focus prevents the area flourishing as a popular Conservative principle.