Eurosceptics brand no contingency plan for Brexit 'disgraceful'

David Cameron’s admission on the Marr Show this morning that the EU referendum might take place either a little later in 2016 than most expected or indeed in 2017 isn’t what has exercised eurosceptics. From their point of view, a later referendum will give them more time to set out their arguments for a change from the status quo. But what has annoyed them is the Prime Minister’s suggestion that the government was not drawing up contingency plans for Britain voting to leave the European Union. Marr asked him whether the government was prepared for the possibility of leaving the EU. Cameron replied:

‘I don’t think that is the right answer, for the reasons I’ve given, but were that to be the answer we would have to do everything necessary to make that work. We put it in the manifesto, it’s the public that will decide this, not the civil servants.’