By BAGEHOT
IN MY column this week I profile Dominic Cummings, a ragged govt adviser who’s now campaign director for Vote Leave, the greatest of the teams vying to e-book the Out campaign in Britian’s upcoming referendum on the European Union (EU). Mr Cummings is blunt, stuffed with life and artful; he infuriates some however conjures up intense loyalty among colleagues; he wants Eurosceptic campaigners to wrestle the upcoming battle as insurgents towards an establishment he considers overwhelmingly first payment-European (already Vote Leave has despatched protesters to heckle David Cameron at a speech to the CBI). With him at its helm, the Out campaign will likely be unlike one thing British politics has seen sooner than, predicts one shut (despite the indisputable truth that first payment-EU) observer.
Although I disagree with Mr Cummings on the EU, his arguments towards it are appealingly thoughtful and in a device optimistic. He serves as a reminder that now not all Eurosceptics are tweedy, isolationist Minute Englanders; that there is a liberal, whiggish even, stress of anti-EU concept in Britain that deserves to be engaged with severely (here one might well per chance moreover point out Douglas Carswell, the cheerily libertarian UKIP MP who, unlike many of his birthday party comrades, backs Vote Leave over its bitter rival, Leave.ecu).
