george osburn told him he should hammer johnson and gove.him he should hammerjohnson and gove. —— osborn. these are your opponents, they are telling you, you have to destroy their credibility. and he didn't do it. so he was not prepared to counter their lies and fight for what he apparently believed in at the time. he was trying to protect the time. he was trying to protect the party, wasn't he? he has done a marvellous job of that. the whole thing has turned out to be a com plete thing has turned out to be a complete shambles. the one bit he mentions is that when michael gove went on about how they would be an influx of turkish migrants if the uk didn't leave the eu, cameron never made the point that actually, we could have vetoed turkey's membership of the eu. he mentioned those as mistakes. obviously the biggest mistake was calling the referendum in the first place. but he had always said he would if they won the election, and i suppose they we re won the election, and i suppose they were not necessarily expecting to win the election outr