Pro-Europe campaigners and tourists during the regular anti-Brexit 'rejoin the EU' protest at the junction of Parliament Street and Parliament Square in Westminster, on 18th June 2025, in Westminster, London, England.

A former Conservative prime minister has branded Brexit “an act of collective folly” in a bitter attack on the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.

John Major said Britain’s “enemies celebrated and our friends despaired” at the result of the 2016 referendum.

He accused those who campaigned to leave, which included senior Tories like Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, of spreading “misinformation” to persuade voters not to stay in the EU.

“It left our country poorer, weaker and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen,” Major said.

“National interest was brushed aside by false hopes and........

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