FTSE companies withdraw support for pro-EU letter paid for by the taxpayer

Thanks to a change in the rules to allow Downing Street to use taxpayer-funded civil servants to promote the EU, they've had one of David Cameron's SpAds draft a letter for FTSE 100 company bosses to sign promoting the EU.

Last week they were briefing the papers that 80 of the top 100 companies on the FTSE were going to sign the letter. Yesterday they were briefing the papers that 50 of the top 100 companies on the FTSE were going to sign the letter. Today the letter is published in the Times with just 36 signatures. How embarrassing.

H/T Guido