James Forsyth James Forsyth

Cameron’s appointment with fear

Why the song remains the same for the Remain camp even as the polls are turning towards Brexit

issue 18 June 2016

The best thing that can be said for David Cameron’s current predicament is that he has been here before. His career has been punctuated by moments when the polls and the pundits have said he was done for. In 2007, with the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown enjoying a honey-moon and considering a snap election, this magazine pictured him on the cover with a noose and the headline ‘Get out of this, Dave’.

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