The number who believe there is no danger to Party unity has also fallen dramatically.
“It’s too complex. I just can’t understand the issue. With a referendum I think it needs to be something really quite simple, like in Ireland when they had gay marriage.”
Plus: Sorting out energy. Protection from Putin. And: furthering the single market.
There are serious negative effects caused by this misplaced certainty and deference.
The former Defence Secretary says that the Prime Minister should stay on in the event of a Remain vote.
Whatever one’s view of Cameron’s former head of strategy, he cannot simply be written off as some crusty reactionary.
Part One of a ConHome series on how the Prime Minister’s aim of a reformed Europe, claimed by him as the basis for a Remain vote, was not achieved by his renegotiation.
As the ground campaign to stay in the EU launches, the International Development Secretary sets out her own personal case for backing it.
A take on the issues by Daily and Sunday Politics.
Plus: Hooligans shame the name of West Ham. Team Corbyn spins the local elections. And: Is Ruth Davidson actually Alec Douglas-Home in disguise?
A further graft from the remnants of Labour and the LibDems might be the best way of preserving the Union and providing an alternative government to the SNP.
Expect to read a lot of cliché about the constituency’s diversity and vibrancy. It has both, but it is a mistake to think that the area’s BAME population is all for Labour.
He used to be a Conservative MP, was destroyed by the cash-for-questions affair, but has risen, quite unexpectedly, from the political grave.
Those who say that they want to win the referendum “at any price” need to consider what “any price” might mean in terms of our ability to govern our country.