On Boxing day last year the lawyer and Remain-supporting campaigner, Jolyon Maugham, made probably the most unwise decision of his life. He decided, after having an altercation with an animal in his garden that morning, to recount his experience on social media.
At 8am, the campaigner and QC revealed that:
‘Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How’s your Boxing day going?’
In subsequent messages, Maugham explained that the unlucky fox had become trapped in his chicken coop and, to complete the picture, that he had been wearing his wife’s kimono as he dispatched the desperate animal.
Maugham may have thought this was an amusing joke or colourful anecdote, but animal lovers around the world were rather less impressed – and Maugham’s FBPE-supporting, animal-loving followers were distraught that a hero of the Remainer revolution could have behaved so callously towards a wild animal.
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