In the top photo, “Kent Conservatives In” activists pose for a picture as members of the local Tory Remain campaign.

In the second photo, “Sussex Conservatives In” activists pose for a similar snap.

Notice anything odd?

The pavement is the giveaway – the photos were taken in exactly the same place, they just swapped the banner. Look closer and you see the exact same activists appear in each photo, they just swapped places so they appear for the cameras in a different order. One way of disguising the fact no one wants to campaign for you…

UPDATE: This from the weekend is another ConservativesIN event, publicity photos on the right show the closely pressed crowd, on the left we can see that the speech was actually delivered to a seated audience of three. Which is, to be fair, a pretty good turnout for a Hammond speech…

It’s all very chummy over at Conservatives for Reform in Europe, the pro-Remain group led by Nick Herbert. Eurosceptic Tory staffers note that Herbert employs as his taxpayer-funded parliamentary researcher one Georgia Hill, the daughter of EU commissioner and arch-Europhile Lord Hill, a close friend of the PM. Georgia joined nepotist Nick’s team in 2014 straight out of university. The sort of favour for a friend you usually see in Brussels…