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This morning’s fish-flinging protest outside Parliament “surpassed robust expectations for eccentricity”, the FT noted, given that London bureaucracy prevented Jacob Rees-Mogg from boarding the protest boat, leaving Nigel Farage to step in to throw fresh haddock overboard alongside Brexiteer fishermen.

Their eye-catching protest over the Government’s agreement to keep Britain in the Common Fisheries Policy until 31 December 2020 under its transition out of the European Union was somewhat blunted by Tory whips, who successfully persuaded MPs not to chuck fish off the boat, even if they still turned up to show their support. The flinging was left to Mr Farage, the man who led Brexiteer...