“I don’t know which ass—and ass is the most moderate word that I can think of— thought of the name ‘Project Fear’ but there is no such thing… [The term] was probably invented by some little twerp in a think tank.”
In an exclusive interview with Prospect Nicholas Soames, the Conservative MP for Mid Sussex, former Defence Secretary under John Major and grandson of Winston Churchill, argued that it is the campaign to leave the European Union (EU) that is too insular, not the campaign to remain in it.