Gordon Brown is busy trying to reset the Remain campaign with a rather leftier tone today. As Tom writes, Labour voters are far less solid in their support for Britain staying in the European Union than the party had hoped, and so the campaign is being handed over to the party so that it can have a proper go at telling its voters that it supports staying in (something not all of them have yet noticed). A group of 20 Labour MPs has also penned a letter pleading for more airtime for Labour voices. It argues:
‘The impact of a leave vote will be catastrophic for the British people. Mainstream Labour voices in the debate must be given more airtime if this catastrophe is to be avoided.’
So whose fault is it that Labour voices have been frozen out? It is rather tempting for Labourites to point the finger of blame at Jeremy Corbyn, particularly after he spent the end of last week striding about in a fur coat and joking about his low level of enthusiasm for the campaign on a comedy show.
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