• Interesting. You could say if he was 'confident' he would have told the electorate that membership of the EU was not up for debate, so go and vote for UKIP if you disagree.

  • It's got nothing to do with the electorate, this referendum was conceived to satisfy the internal tensions within the Conservative Party.

  • It's got nothing to do with the electorate, this referendum was conceived to satisfy the internal tensions within the Conservative Party.

    It's definitely both, and the two are linked: he was worried about more Tory MPs defecting to UKIP and getting re-elected.

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