BREXIT champion and former Ukip leader Nigel Farage will be addressing a rally in Bournemouth today.

Mr Farage is vice-chairman of pro-Brexit campaign group Leave Means Leave, and will be speaking alongside fellow members and Brexiteers Tim Martin, the founder and chairman of Wetherspoons, and Brendan Chilton of Labour Leave.

Also speaking at the ‘Save Brexit Rally’ at the Bournemouth International Centre is Conor Burns, MP for Bournemouth West, who has recently called for the government's 'Chequers' proposal – currently being considered by the EU – to be abandoned.

"They are having a whole series of these events across the country to continue to make the arguments for leaving," said Mr Burns.

He said he thought leave campaigners had been too complacent in the aftermath of the referendum.

"When the result came in we stopped campaigning, while those who supported staying in saw it as the beginning of another campaign," he said.

"In Denmark, France, Ireland, when people have had the opportunity to have a referendum there have been some minor changes made and they have then been told to vote again until they come up with the 'right' answer.

"We thought it would be different here, we would hold the vote and that would be that."

Mr Burns said he expected the event, at 7pm on Monday, to attract leave voters, but anyone who wished to attend would be welcome.

"This event is intended to be an antidote to the remorseless negativity about Brexit, to remind people of the positive arguments put forward for leaving," he said.

Mr Burns, alongside Christchurch MP Sir Christopher Chope, has previously expressed support for a 'Canada ++' free trade deal between the UK and EU after Brexit.

Leave Means Leave calls itself “the leading cross-party campaign for a clean, swift exit from the European Union”, and lists Sir Christopher as well as New Forest West MP Sir Desmond Swayne among its supporters.

“In response to two years of delays to the Brexit process, we are restarting the Leave campaign to ensure the British people get what they voted for in June 2016,” the group says. “The government must chuck their Chequers proposal – which if delivered would amount to Brexit in name only – and instead seize the opportunities of a ‘world trade deal’.”