It started with such promise, but "Britain in Europe" has definitely ended with more of a whimper than a bang. When I was persuaded to give up a career in journalism with the Financial Times to set up the campaign group in 1999 I knew it would be difficult to shift public opinion, what with the years of complacent neglect by pro-Europeans, an emergent well-funded anti-Europe campaign, and the drip-drip [...]

Saturday 10 June is supposed to be Save the Pound Day, although the original plan to have activity in hundreds of constituencies has been scuppered by the reluctance of many local Conservative associations to join in. So, in the end, it will probably amount to little more than set-piece speeches from William Hague and Michael Portillo, with noises off from an unappealing rag-tag of extremist cheerleaders from the UK Independence [...]