President Hollande has signalled that he is ready to move the border with Britain back to Dover, saying there will be “consequences” if Britain leaves the EU. In a helpful intervention for Downing Street, the French president said that he could not rule out ripping up an agreement that allows border checks to take place in Calais. No 10 had already warned that France would issue the threat should voters back Brexit in the referendum in June. A spokesman said that moving the border could lead to migrant settlements like the Jungle springing up in Kent almost overnight. Mr Hollande made his intervention as he stood next to David Cameron after talks in Amiens, northern France. “I don’t want to scare you, but I just want to say the truth,” he said. “There will be consequences if the United Kingdom is to leave the EU. “There will be consequences in many are

By the standards of the world’s great national anthems, it is considered a plodding dirge: endured rather than loved. It’s a long time since anyone charged into battle with their blood up after hearing God Save the Queen. Yet for all it lacks in power to inspire, the national anthem’s place in English sporting culture looked safer last night after the organisations that run the England rugby and football teams came out against moves to drop it. Both bodies have close links to the royal family. The Queen is patron of the Rugby Football Union and Prince Harry vice-patron, while Prince William is president of the Football Association. Toby Perkins, a Labour MP, is pushing for England to get its own anthem, such as Jerusalem, to sing at sporting events instead of God Save the Queen. Campaigners backing his bill, which is due to get a second reading in parliament today, have organised a choir