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Marine Le Pen changed her Twitter profile picture into a Union Jack flag (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

Anti-EU politicians: 'Brussels has been beaten'

European far right politicians have congratulated the British voters for the decision to leave the EU, a result which will surely inspire the anti-EU movement for years to come.

“Liberty has won,” said French National Front leader Marine Le Pen on Friday (24 June), shortly after the British media called the results.

“Like I have demanded for years, there now has to be a similar referendum in France and in the countries of the EU,” MEP Le Pen wrote on Twitter. She changed her Twitt...

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