In filthy weather, Farage’s few hundred begin the long march

The March To Leave setting off from the coast near Sunderland today. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesOn a bleak stretch of England’s north-east coast, they gathered to save Brexit and begin the long march to Westminster. Few of the 300 cheery souls who walked out with Nigel Farage on to grassy cliffs south of Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, will make it all the way to London, but there was a determination to reach the first staging post on the 270-mile journey. Whatever happens they will