John Rentoul

John Rentoul is chief political commentator for The Independent on Sunday, and visiting fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he teaches contemporary history. Previously he was chief leader writer for The Independent. He has written a biography of Tony Blair, whom he admired more at the end of his time in office than he did at the beginning.

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Strong-Hand Dan

Posted by John Rentoul

Thursday, 5 November 2009 at 09:28 am

Just two months ago, Daniel Hannan, Conservative Euro-MP, who was on Newsnight on Tuesday night saying that it didn't matter what a referendum was about, just as long as there were one, wrote this:

I am increasingly confident that Britain will get its referendum. I’m not in a position to explain why at this stage, but our hand is stronger than is generally supposed. I know this won’t do for some of my readers, but I’m afraid that, for now, you’ll just have to take my word for it.

We'll know what to do with his word in future.

Thanks to Sunder Katwala for reminding me.