Struggles for control at the top of the People’s Vote Campaign have burst out into the open after Roland Rudd, the campaign’s chair, removed James McGrory and Tom Baldwin from their posts as campaign director and head of communications respectively.
It is the culmination of months of simmering resentments about personnel, strategy and trust within the campaign. The People’s Vote Campaign has always been a somewhat unwieldy chimera of an organisation, comprising as it does five major pro-European organisations – the United Kingdom’s oldest pro-EU grouping, the European Movement; the two youth wings Our Future Our Choice and For Our Future’s Sake; Wales for Europe; and Open Britain, the successor organisation to the defeated 2016 Remain campaign – with at times sharply differing visions about how best to campaign for a second referendum.
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