Don't fall for Project Smear, Mr Burnham

In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers deployed Project Fear to scare the living daylights out of anyone considering voting to Leave. Their statistical projections of an economic Armageddon were so absurd that they proved a monumental own goal, deemed sensationalist scaremongering. Ten years on, still smarting from the result, Rejoiners are peddling just as fantastical calculations of what the past decade would have been without Brexit: let’s call it Project Smear. But the smarter element of those who would have us return sense another defeat and so are trying something slightly different. Their cunning new strategy is aiming, instead, to foster a different fear: the idea that, perhaps, the European Union is now… too good for them! The idea is deliciously fiendish. Combined wit