The IN campaign’s plan for victory in this EU referendum is relatively simple. ‘Do you want the status quo or the riskt alternative?’, is how one Cameron ally sums it up.
To date, Remain—aided by the various government dossiers—have been pretty effective at pushing this message. That is why they are ahead in the polls.
So, Vote Leave know that they need to push the risks of staying in, up the agenda. I write in The Sun this morning that their message in the coming weeks will be that ‘wages will be lower and taxes will be higher if stay in the EU’. Their argument will be that the continuing troubles in the Eurozone will hit the UK in two ways. First, this country’s EU budget contribution will get bigger and bigger as the UK economy will be growing while the Eurozone one is stagnant.
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