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The Spectator's Notes

Two foreign leaders could swing the EU referendum: Erdogan and Assad

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19 March 2016

9:00 AM

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

Do Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Bashar Assad support ‘leave’ or ‘remain’ in Britain’s EU referendum? I ask because they are the most powerful foreign leaders in deciding the vote, their views being much more effective than any sonorous words that may soon be offered by Barack Obama or any last-minute inducements from Angela Merkel.

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