A Bulgarian national who carried out a string of sexual attacks would have been given a stronger sentence if the UK was still in the European Union, a judge said. Ali Hasan Ali, 32, of Skirbeck Road,

A judge has blamed Brexit for a more lenient sentence on a Bulgarian sex offender who carried out a string of daytime attacks on lone women. Judge Simon Hirst said omissions in the Brexit agreements meant he could not take into account previous sexual offences committed by 32-year-old Ali Hasan Ali in his native Bulgaria.

A Bulgarian sex offender who carried out a string of daytime attacks on lone women was unable to be deemed dangerous by a British judge because the UK has left the EU. Judge Simon Hirst admitted he would have passed a sentence which meant Ali Hasan Ali,

Boris Johnson has said he suspected France’s Emmanuel Macron of “weaponising” the small boats crisis to “punish” Brexit Britain. Writing in his forthcoming memoir Unleashed, the former Prime Minister suggested Mr Macron discreetly allowed migrants to cross the Channel to “drive the British public nuts”.

French President Emmanuel Macron saw Brexit as ‘a terrible snub to the EU and to his view of the world’, Boris Johnson claims in his memoir ‘Unleashed’