Here’s a puzzle: blonde-rinsed, wild-eyed Marine Le Pen, clutching a bottle of champagne, rings your doorbell. What do you do? The obvious social reflex is to lie quietly on the carpet and hope that she doesn’t spot you through the curtains. Surprisingly that is also the position taken by the Brexit campaign after the French National Front leader announced she was crossing the Channel to help out with a speech or two. Gisela Stuart, Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg: they’re all hiding behind the sofa, rather than welcoming the support of the European far right.
They seem to be afraid that Marine and her ilk will let the cat out of the bag: that she will give an ugly neo-Nazi and very un-British tinge to the