“What’s your edge?” the actor playing Craig Oliver asked Dominic Cummings in Monday night’s TV drama Brexit: The Uncivil War. The programme does a decent job of demonstrating how Vote Leave used a superior slogan (“Take back control”) and false claims (on money for the NHS, and Turkey joining the EU) to capture the public mood. Sadly it brushes over the illegality of their overspending and overplays the role of their data wizards – who are now common in politics. But rather than looking backwards at 2016, the question posed by Oliver – David Cameron’s then spin doctor – is perhaps more pertinent with regard to the prospect of a new referendum. Some bookmakers have slashed the odds of a people’s vote to virtually evens as Theresa May’s deal looks destined to fail. Although my part in the TV drama was blink-and-you-miss-it, in reality I was part of the remain campaign from the start. My job was to build an organisation – Britain Stronger in Europe – from scratch, which ultimately employed 200 people around the country. I was there in 2015 when Oliver and the rest of Cameron’s team wanted nothing to do with us as they pursued their… Read full this story
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