If one negotiates, one needs a negotiating position, and I am not sure Britain yet has one – officially. Sir Bill and Messrs Jenkin and Redwood have very helpfully set one out. It is a policy anchored in reality rather than in the woolly, rather fantastic pretences that underline the approach at the moment. I suspect it is because the Government knows what a non-deal it is going to get from Europe that the terms of the referendum are being rigged so much as they are – not least the refusal to impose a period of purdah on official institutions before the vote.