Hundreds of business leaders have written to each of the ten Conservative leadership candidates urging them to abandon plans for a no-deal Brexit.
Pro-EU parties have won more votes in the European Parliament elections, but the split vote between has resulted in Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party taking the most seats.
Theresa May has said she will quit as the leader of the Conservatives on 7 June and a contest to become the next prime minister will begin the following week.
Facebook has been forced to remove dozens of far right disinformation pages in recent weeks, after research by Avaaz showed the scale of the issue poisoning discussion on the platform.
The “milkshaking” of Nigel Farage on Monday was the latest in a series of milk-based protests against far right political figures in the UK, with “lactose the intolerant” the latest evolution of a long-standing British slapstick tradition of throwing eggs and custard pies at politicians.