The EU's Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt said he was surprised to see former Ukip leader Nigel Farage sitting in European parliament in Strasbourg, saying 'I thought you were marching 200 miles for the leave campaign? How many did you do? Two miles.' The former Belgian prime minister Verhofstadt later compared Farage to Field Marshal Haig from Blackadder, saying that Farage was 'sitting safely in his office, while his people are walking in the cold and the rain'