Among those who do want to leave, some of the more hot-headed fancy the idea of a referendum straight away if the man from Luxembourg gets the job. But their more cunning colleagues point out that if he does triumph, the impact on Britain’s attempts to renegotiate its relationship with Brussels ahead of a referendum in 2017 (should the Tories win re-election) will be a more eloquent illustration of the EU’s ills than any campaign the Outers can cobble together over the next few months.