In or out? — that is the question that a new cross-party campaign would have put
to the British people. And so they’re launching their “People’s Pledge” today. The idea is that voters would promise to support only those parliamentary candidates who back a referendum
on our membership of the EU. The signatures will then be enumerated, presented on a website, and — it is hoped — shock Westminster into delivering the referendum itself. At the very
least, it might persuade some candidates to face up to, and meet, the tide of public opinion on Europe.
It seems we’ve been here, or somewhere like it, before now. Daniel Hannan, for instance, launched a campaign last year to collect signatures for an EU referendum. But the timing of this latest attempt is slightly more resonant.
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