On Tuesday of this week, I posted a vision of what life would be like if we voted to Leave next week. It was a terrifying look into a UK taken over by the right of the Conservative Party. But having discussed it with others since, I think I may have actually been a little […]

This week, upon advice from strategists and pollsters, David Cameron is taking a step back from the Stronger In campaign. This is not how DC saw things going down a few months ago – by this stage, Remain were going to be 20 points up in the polls, all down to his magnetic popularity. Instead, […]

The Germans are saying no access to the single market if the UK votes for Brexit, and Cameron has said he’ll take a Brexit vote as a signal to pull us out of the single market as well. Although both sides could backtrack on this, it would be difficult after all this has been said. […]

Over the weekend, I happened upon a YouGov poll that was conducted and released at the end of May on the EU referendum question. This one wasn’t your run of the mill polling on the subject – instead, people were asked to rank 30 different well known fictional characters from most likely to vote Remain […]

David Cameron had hoped that an EU referendum would result in a thumping win for Remain, close the Europe question down for a generation and thus bring unity to his party. All three of those goals now look out of reach. The polls are staying doggedly close into the final stretch, already Brexiteers are setting up for a […]

The first thing to say about last night is that it could have been a lot worse for Vote Leave. What they would have wanted to avoid at the outset was Farage ending up saying something offensive that was quotable; they dodged that bullet. The UKIP leader was aggressive and nervous, however, and didn’t come […]

We all agree that the EU referendum campaign has been unedifying – and we’re not even into the final two weeks of it yet, where the ugliness is bound to increase, particularly after the Leavers got a poll bounce off the immigration stuff. The squalid nature of the debate has come as no surprise to […]

When the Leave campaign began to focus all its guns on immigration, it looked to many of us as if they had given up. They couldn’t win the economic argument, so they shifted to betting everything on a last ditch effort built around a topic they had assiduously avoided to that point in order to […]

Last night, as those of you not watching England v Portugal might have picked up on, the prime minister went on Sky News to be grilled by Faisal Islam on why we should stay in the EU, followed by questions from the studio audience on the same topic. After it was all done, the commentariat […]

I’ve read a few articles over the past week or so from members of the Right who are desperate to jump on any sign of life from the Leave camp as proof that the country still might vote to leave the European Union on June 23rd. Anytime a poll puts Leave in even the most […]