BREXIT campaigner Richard Tice has demanded the BBC ban the EU flag from the Last Night of the Proms as it is “an insult to Britain”.
The founder of Leave.EU and Leave Means Leave fumed that the BBC had been “complicit” when.
Tice, now the leader of the Reclaim Party, told the Daily Express the flag must be banned from future editions of the Last Night of the Proms, which closes the BBC’s summer classical music series. He said: “I am not in favour of banning things normally but we really need to ban the EU flag from the Last Night of the Proms.
"This is a patriotic event celebrating Britain and we are allowing people to insult this country with the flag of a political organisation."I don't have any problem with French people or Germans or whoever taking their own flag, but really the main flags should be the Union Jack not the EU one.""It was noticeable that people with EU flags were being ushered to the front where of course they will be caught on camera more.
The group Thank EU for the Music claimed responsibility for the stunt, writing in a Facebook post: “Tens of thousands of music lovers have taken our free European flags into the Royal Albert Hall for each Last Night of the Proms in solidarity with musicians who feel the destructive impact of Britain's recent isolation from
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