For all last month’s summit and the Prime Minister’s diplomatic push, the figures have scarcely moved.
He’s certainly not a racist nor predominately a progressive – but, rather, almost laboratory-standard evidence of the Tory hunger for office.
He takes 58 per cent of the vote.
It can be lonely for them but is also bound up with them.
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There is a middle course between resigning to speak out and staying in government while saying nothing.
Were they all to do so, it follows that Cameron would have no need to offer Ministers a free vote – as he should.
The Leave Campaign needs a non-Conservative to lead it. Preferably a woman. Perhaps even a non-Brit. And 14 other observations.
He may not get the deal in February and referendum next summer that he’s pushing for. But if he does, Party management will be deeply problematic.
Lord Ashcroft’s new research on the coming EU referendum is a reminder that gut fear will count for more than rational argument.
Remember: he commissioned and supported a major report supporting a renegotiation bigger than Cameron’s – or else leaving.
Here’s a case for and a case against.
Though the news makes it even less likely that Britain will quit the ECHR – not that such a move is on the cards anyway.