It’s not been a great week for the In campaign in terms of ‘celebrity’ endorsements. On Tuesday Emma Thompson unexpectedly got the remain camp in the news when the Nanny McPhee actress explained that she was pro-EU because Britain alone is just ‘a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island’. They then seemed to have a royal endorsement after hacks thought Prince William hinted that he was a Europhile in a speech to the Foreign Office. Alas Kensington Palace were quick to put out a statement denying this was the case.
So the In campaign must have been hoping it would be a case of third time lucky on Question Time. June Sarpong — the Britain Stronger in Europe board member — appeared on the current affairs show to offer a pro-EU perspective on the panel. However, the former T4 presenter got off to a difficult start after clashing with Dragons Den‘s Theo Paphitis over what a Brexit would mean for UK employment:
JS: I care about the future and I don’t want to live in the past.
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