Despite all the fighting over which faction is working with who that’s taken place over the past few days, MP members of the Vote Leave campaign are actually rather upbeat. In private conversations that I’ve had over the past few days, a number of MPs who had been worried about the campaign have told me that they think it has turned a corner with the restructure that was announced earlier last week.
The Vote Leave bunch do not want to merge with Leave.EU for a number of reasons, but one is simply that it would be difficult with such a small amount of time left before the referendum. But there’s nothing to stop the groups working together, and co-ordinating their activities, rather than the current situation of a lot of friendly fire between Leave.EU and Vote Leave. Figures in Vote Leave tried to engineer a ceasefire in the past week, but this failed within hours, with the other side rebuffing the approach.
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