West London café bans Michael Gove and Boris Johnson for leading Brexit campaign

Banned: Michael Gove and Boris Johnson
Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Hannah Al-Othman2 July 2016

A west London café appears to have banned a number of the Brexit campaign's leading figures.

A poster has appeared in the Notting Hill Gate establishment, which is allegedly “just up from where Michael Gove lives”, warning staff not to serve the six Leave campaigners.

They are Conservative MPs Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, and Andrea Leadsom; Ukip leader Nigel Farage; Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre; and Sarah Vine, Daily Mail columnist, and wife of Michael Gove.

The poster reads: “These people have harmed our business, one more meal or sale will not be worse than what they’ve done.

“These people have hurt our employees and our friends, and we will not make them share the same space with them.

"These people's cruel and regressive agenda was rejected by the people of London.

The scathing poster goes on to say that the six are: "persona non grata (sic) in this city", adding: "London should give them no aid or comfort and neither will we."

Justifying the ban, the poster reads: "these people seek to harm our city, they should be denied its comforts," and says the management of the café is "united against Brexit, united against the causes of Brexit."

There has been an outpouring of anger in the capital since the referendum result was announced last Friday.

Britain voted to leave the European Union in a referendum last week by 52 per cent to 48 per cent, but voters in London strongly backed Remain by 60 per cent to 40 per cent.

An anti-Brexit rally in Trafalgar Square attracted tens of thousands, despite being cancelled by organisers over safety concerns, and millions have signed a petition calling for a second referendum to be held.

Tomorrow up to 40,000 people are expected to process through the streets of central London in an anti-Brexit 'March for Europe' protest.

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