Anti-Brexit campaigner Jim Cornelius had his window smashed (Picture: Twitter)

An anti-Brexit campaigner had a brick thrown through his window in the early hours of this morning.

Jim Cornelius, from Lewes, East Sussex, tweeted several images showing the damage that was caused to his home.

Pictures showed a window with stop Brexit stickers on the inside had been smashed and glass was left on the floor of the kitchen.

Liberal Democrat supporter Mr Cornelius wrote:’I’ve just had a brick thrown through my window.


‘Just finished cleaning up the kitchen and best I can. Glass everywhere. The brick hit my Google Home Hub and damaged the screen.

‘I called 999 within seconds. But they can do nothing.



‘Whoever did it was gone before I got to the door. Wife and myself stoic, but my son is very upset.’

The window was smashed overnight (Picture: Twitter)

The brick appeared to have traitor written on it (Picture: Twitter)

Mr Cornelius, who is an Associate Fellow at the UK Trade Policy Observatory, added he noticed something had been written on both sides of the brick.

It appeared to say ‘traitor’ on one side.

Mr Cornelius also tweeted an article of a similar incident in his area that happened a few months ago where a brick was thrown through the window of another anti-Brexit campaigner.

The incident came after Boris Johnson was criticised for his language in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

He repeatedly described attempts to block no-deal as the ‘surrender act’ and dismissed a Labour MP’s complaint that his ‘inflammatory’ language risked provoking attacks as “humbug”.

The brick landed on the kitchen floor (Picture: Twitter)

It had something written on the other side as well (Picture: Twitter)

Mr Johnson further angered the opposition by suggesting the best way to honour murdered Remain-supporting MP Jo Cox was to ‘get Brexit done’.

On Thursday, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson had to leave cross-party talks early so she could speak to police about a threat made to one of her children.

And Labour MP Jess Phillips disclosed that a man had been arrested while trying to smash the windows and kick the door of her Birmingham Yardley constituency office while yelling ‘fascist’.

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