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Remainers need new messengers for a new media

The cards are still stacked against the next Remain campaign. It's time to learn lessons and regroup.

By Josiah Mortimer
Remainers need new messengers for a new media
Young Remain campaigners outside Downing Street | Isabel Infantes/PA Images
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I’ll make one prediction about the next referendum campaign, if and when it comes to the fore; it will be characterised by a single word: betrayal.

The moderate right will claim the 2016 referendum has been betrayed, by Remainers intent on reversing the ‘will of the people’. The hard right will claim the moderate right betrayed voters’ ostensible will for a ‘full Brexit’ – a near-total end to European relations, closing the borders and raising the drawbridge.

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