> No it didn't. The only reason the vote was called was because the majority of that government demanded it. The current Conservative PM campaigned for it. Ther

> No it didn't. The only reason the vote was called was because the majority of that government demanded it. The current Conservative PM campaigned for it. There are a long list of senior tory party members who pushed it, dozens of former ministers etc. I just wanted to butt in about this point. The Lib Dems at the time also wanted a referendum on EU membership if they won, the theory being that if the Lib Dems won, it would signal that a referendum would pass remain very easily and would give a strong mandate to the pro-Europe types for further integration. Over the last 60 years the Tories and Labour have had a wide range of views on Europe, and with euroscepticism and europhilism and euroantipathy present in both of them in meaningful measures. Certainly some of the tories in government at the time were eurosceptics and wanted the vote because voting out was the eurosceptic wet dream(which came to pass). I don't know David Cameron personally but my impression of him is that on balance he was probably closer to Nick Clegg on Europe than Bojo, else he wouldn't have left so immediately after the vote. I think like Democrats who were rooting for Trump to be the Republican nominee, he was blissfully overconfident in the result and asked a question he really didn't want the actual answer to.