Brexiteers gets up at 6am to replace EU flags at Westminster with 34 Union Jacks

Brexit may not be happening on March 29 any more but Leave voters are already prepping for the change by replacing EU flags with Union Jacks this morning.

A group of Brexiteers descended on Parliament Square at 6am to place 34 Union flags in a spot usually occupied by EU flags before Remain voters arrived.

David Ireland, 41, and three others arrived first thing armed with the custom-made flags to find no EU ones there.

They swiftly moved to set up all 34 around the television cameras outside the Houses of Parliament.

However, Remain campaigners arrived at 7.30am, and began placing their EU flags around the Union flags.

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Mr Ireland said: “People turn on the TV and see this entire wall covered in EU flags; some people want to be in the EU but there’s also some people who don’t want to be in the EU, so we’ve come along and done our flags.

“What the Remain voters do is shun all the Leave campaigners into the irrelevant middle ground and dominate the TV space.

“The narrative was this is the EU zone, we own this, but it seemed a little bit one-sided.”

Asked if he would do the same on Friday, he said: “I’ve got a job, I can’t do this all the time like they do.”