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It was Jacob Rees-Mogg who christened it a festival of Brexit - a moniker that might well have cursed it from the beginning.

Announced by Theresa May in the aftermath of Britain's referendum on EU membership, and supposedly inspired by the 1851 Great Exhibition and 1951's Festival of Britain, the then prime minister heralded a programme of events to be held this year to showcase what makes our country great today".