The problem isn't Ukip, it is Europe | Simon Jenkins

David Cameron has fallen into the same trap as John Major. Now the politics of citizen identity lurks everywhere

I cannot tell if this week's cross-party plan to brand Ukip as racist emanates from the spin doctors of Nigel Farage's party or from some madcap ivory tower in Westminster. On all previous evidence, it will do Ukip no harm and, by keeping the party that wants Britain out of Europe in the headlines, will probably do it some good.

Like project fear, which was intended to scare Scottish...