Some ardent Brexiteers settle their scores on social media. Jonathan Arnott, a Ukip MEP and briefly last year a contender for his party’s leadership, is letting his fists do the talking — and his bishops. Arnott is stepping into the ring at London’s famous York Hall next month for a “chess-boxing” bout against Toby White, an anti-Brexit Lib Dem activist. The fight consists of 11 three-minute rounds: six of chess and five of punching each other in the head. Very much like working in Brussels, I suspect. It sounds more fun than yet another amendment debate in the House of Lords.

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