Populist, anti-expert mood shaping Brexit supporters' views

London

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron was only minutes into a final push to persuade his country to stay in the European Union (EU) this week when he invoked the e-word: experts. "It's not just the 'remain' side," he said, rattling off warnings of a cataclysm to come if Britain votes to leave. "You've got expert after expert: the OECD, the IMF, the Bank of England, the Institute for Fiscal Studies."

His audience of common-man interrogators on the BBC's vaunted Question Time pro…