Alex Salmond says David Cameron has let internal party politics get in the way of leading the EU debate.
David Cameron’s failure to reach out to rival pro-Europe politicians could be the “fatal weakness” of his EU campaign, says Alex Salmond.
In his column for The Courier, the ex-SNP leader says the Prime Minister cuts an increasingly isolated figure after his close ally Michael Gove sided with the Brexit campaigners – with Boris Johnson following suit on Sunday.
Mr Salmond said Mr Cameron had “offended” the UK’s devolved leaders by setting the referendum date so close to national elections and has made no attempt to court the support of figures like Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon.
He said Mr Cameron looks more like the leader of the biggest faction of the Conservative Party than the man in charge of the UK.
He added: “That may become a fatal weakness as this European campaign progresses,”
Mr Salmond pounced on Mr Cameron’s “scaremongering” use of the phrase “leap in the dark”.
And his column also discusses the significance of the discovery of fossils in the Borders – which is not believed to be a veiled reference to residual Tory support in Scotland.
Read his column in full in Monday’s edition of The Courier.
Prime Minister missing chance to build a pro-European union, says Alex Salmond
