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It’s not quite the Jarrow March, although it follows a similar route – next month a group of pro-Brexit protesters , led by Nigel Farage, are due to stage a walk from Sunderland to London to “voice their deep disappointment at the ongoing betrayal of the referendum result”.

The event is being organised by Leave Means Leave, whose founder and chair, Richard Tice and John Longworth, will be among the planned “core group” of marchers who will trek the entire 270 or so miles.

Farage, the former Ukip leader who is setting up a new pro-Brexit party, will be there for the start – Sunderland was chosen as the first city to record a vote for leave in 2016 – and on yet-to-be-confirmed other legs to be fitted round his “pre-existing commitments”, a spokesman for Leave Means Leave said.

The march will end with a rally in Parliament Square on 29 March, the planned Brexit date, though of course it might end up not being then.

In a quote released by the organisers, Farage said:

The Westminster elite are in the process of betraying the British people over Brexit. All of us who want Britain to be a great country once again accept that we must be prepared to stand up for what we believe in and fight for our independence.