Rival campaigners for the U.K. to leave the European Union are struggling to agree on how they can rally the British public and win a vote that could come as soon as June.
Divisions among ‘Brexit’ proponents are widening, leaving them with neither an agreed spokesman nor a clear message. The different groups are vying to be designated the official campaign, giving them access to more funding and the right to make television advertisements and send a government-funded mailing to every home. U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has shifted his backing to Grassroots Out, while the party’s only House of Commons lawmaker, Douglas Carswell, supports the Vote Leave group.
Differences among the groups center on the role immigration should play in communications. Prime Minister David Cameron -- who will campaign for the U.K. to stay in a reformed EU -- hopes to win approval for his renegotiations with the bloc at a Feb. 18-19 summit in Brussels, paving the way for areferendum as early as June 23.
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