A crowdfunding campaign seeks to encourage Prommers to take up the EU flag rather than the Union Jack.

The concert that caps off the BBC Proms – the world’s largest classical music festival – is seen as one of English classical music’s most patriotic nights. But this year, a group of anti-Brexit campaigners have used crowdfunding to raise money for thousands of blue European Union flags to hand out at The Last Night of the Proms in protest of the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the EU. The organisers have raised £1,175 to pay for flags and have an army of volunteers ready to hand them to audience members outside Royal Albert Hall for Saturday night’s sold-out concert.

The popular Last Night is a festive celebration with the sell-out crowd encouraged to wave Union Jacks – as well as flags from other nations – and features a programme of popular classics that inevitably includes the patriotic anthems Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem, Rule, Britannia! and God Save the Queen. This year the concert will feature works by Offenbach, Rossini, Borodin and Britten and the star soloist will be Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez.

According to a report...