Those who acted as the biggest cheerleaders for Project Fear in the run-up to the referendum now have the awkward task of changing tack. One of those shouting loudly was Rob Wainwright, the British head of Europol. A key campaign strategy of David Cameron was that Britain would be safer in the European Union – and, ergo, less safe outside of it. Joining him in those warnings was Wainwright, who said that if the UK was no longer a member of the EU, Britain would become a ‘second-tier member’ of the crime-fighting club. He said, in the event of Brexit, that:
‘It would make it harder for Britain to fight terrorism and crime.’
This morning, he’s been striking a somewhat different note. He told the Today programme:
‘We’re dealing very much with a globalised problem that requires close co-operation with our European neighbours, particularly in information sharing.
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