EU referendum: barrage of grim forecasts takes aim at our homes

Osborne, Carney and Lagarde are like wartime generals, with a relentless salvo of bad news for Brexiteers. It isn't working. Targeting house prices might do the trick

Different location, same story. On Thursday, it was Mark Carney sitting in Threadneedle Street issuing a warning from the Bank of England about the perils of Brexit. Less than 24 hours later it was Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, delivering the same message.

The approach being taken by the government to the referendum appears similar to tactics adopted by the British high command on the western front during the first world war: soften up the enemy with a constant and ferocious pounding.

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