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7 April 2016

Would the Doctor vote for Britain to leave the EU?

He’s a maverick who knows how to handle an over-mighty federation of monsters.

By Pete May

Most questions in life can be answered by Doctor Who and perhaps wavering EU referendum voters should place their faith in the Time Lord. Where would the Doctor stand on Brexit? Whovians will not be short of guidance.

Those who argue that the Doctor would support Brexit might point out that the Doctor has always had a problem with authority imposed by distant institutions. At the end of the last series Peter Capaldi’s Doctor banished Rassilon, the Lord President of the High Council of Time Lords, from Gallifrey with a cry of “get off my planet!” (though Rassilon had kept him trapped in a confession dial for several billion years, as you do).

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