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A Tory MP has said he is in "dismay" that Brexit doesn't mean the UK will be leaving the Eurovision song contest.

Brexiteer Michael Fabricant is clearly not a fan of the annual international music competition.

But he clearly doesn't know very much about it.

The contest is actually linked to European Broadcasting Union which includes 56 countries - many more than the 28 (soon to be 27) of the European Union.

It is an alliance of public service media organisations and includes channels in Russia and Israel as well as those on the continent of Europe.

And it's somewhat a u-turn from 2016 when Fabricant hit out at “remoaners” for “fallacious” comments that suggested Brexit meant leaving European institutions such as Europol, Erasmus and Eurovision.

He made his comments today in the House of Commons chamber to groans from his fellow MPs.

He asked: "Does my right hon. Friend share my dismay that Brexit does not mean that we are leaving the Eurovision song contest?"

They were directed at the Culture Secretary Matthew Hancock who rejected Fabricant’s idea saying that the UK entry had his full support.

“A principle I try to apply to my life, we should apply to the Eurovision Song Contest - which is, whenever something goes wrong, we should try, try and try again, and maybe eventually we’ll get there.”

Eurovision was started in 1956 making it the longest-running annual televised music competition.

But despite taking part every year since it began, the UK's entry has only won five times.

In recent years the programme has attracted an audience of over 200 million - although the MP for Lichfield may not be among them.

Best for Britain’s Paul Butters said that it was a sign that the Leave camp were getting “desperate”.

He said: “Mr Fabricant might be walking on sunshine, but this seems to be the Brexiteers’ Waterloo.”