Brexit rumpus: Farage faces protests in Harrogate

Coming to Harrogate tomorrow: Nigel Farage MEP.

Protests are expected in Harrogate as leading Brexiteer Nigel Farage arrives for a 'Save Brexit Rally'.

His appearance tomorrow afternoon, Saturday in an event organised by the Leave Means Leave campaign, comes on the same day as local anti-Brexit members of the public will be heading down to attend a massive People's Vote march in London to demand a vote on whatever the final deal is.

North Yorkshire for Europe supporters are set to join the march in London and are travelling down in two coaches from Harrogate and Ripon at the crack of dawn.

Although NYFE's local organiser Richard Sadler said his group would be boycotting Farage's rally in Harrogate completely, Harrogate & Knaresborough Labour Party are organising a protest tomorrow outside former UKIP leader Nigel Farrage's "Save Brexit Rally" at Harrogate Convention Centre.

The protest is open to anyone who wants to express their view about the MEP and his Leave Means Leave group which also includes Jacob Rees-Mogg and David Davis.

Protesters will be meeting between 12.30pm and 12.50pm at the Cold Bath Brewing Company bar on Kings Road opposite Harrogate Convention Centre.

Harrogate and Knaresborough Lib Dem’s prospective parliamentary candidate Judith Rogerson said she did not oppose Harrogate hosting a ‘Save Brexit’ rally in principle but the party firmly supported a 'people's vote'.