In case you hadn’t noticed, the battle of Britain’s EU membership has become a proxy war for the soul of the Conservative party.
It has been clear for several weeks that anything but a crushing victory (of the 60-40 variety) for Remain will prompt a swift leadership challenge to David Cameron. A defeat for Remain would almost certainly mean his resignation.
Coming just a year after Cameron surprisingly managed to secure the first majority Conservative victory since 1992, a public...
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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.