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Hugo Rifkind

This really isn’t how Robert Mugabe would run a referendum

The Prime Minister is behaving with conciliation to the point of deference. Plus: MPs’ tax returns

16 April 2016

9:00 AM

16 April 2016

9:00 AM

It is not what Robert Mugabe would do. Calm down. These are ‘spiv Robert Mugabe antics’, said the Tory backbencher Nigel Evans, of the government’s alleged £9 million mailshot making the case for staying in the European Union. But no. They aren’t.

If David Cameron was behaving like Robert Mugabe, then he wouldn’t just be sending a leaflet to your house.

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