Brexit 'honoured' with street name

Julien Sanchez, the mayor of Beaucaire and a member of the far-right and Eurosceptic Front National, announced on Twitter that the town council had voted in favour of calling the previously unnamed street in an industrial estate Rue du Brexit.

The announcement was quickly welcomed by a pro-Brexit Twitter account.

The crescent-shaped Rue du Brexit leads off another street named after former prime minister of France Robert Schuman, a politician regarded as one of the founding fathers of the European Union, and rejoins it a few hundred yards later.

“It’s a street in an industrial zone, and isn’t going to shake up the daily lives of Beaucaire residents,” Mr Sanchez told France Bleu radio.

But he pointed out that many streets in France are 'named after founders of a 'Europe smothering the people', so he believed a rue du Brexit was 'justified to rebalance things'.

France Bleu also said that the decision can be contested at the administrative tribunal of Nimes in the next two months.