EU referendum: The purdah wars

As EU referendum fever (or exasperation, given we’ve four more months of it) sets in and campaign groups of every persuasion increase the heat, another type of ‘conflict’ has raged in the background: purdah rules and the role of the civil service. For those needing a...

Leaving on the Line

The last referendum on Britain’s membership of some sort of European political association – the EEC back then – was in 1975, as pro-leave groups never tire of reminding us. You would think then that such groups have had enough time to organise themselves properly and...