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When the sun shines on the town of Clacton-on-Sea on the east coast of England, its seafront plays host to sunbathers, kids feeding coins into arcade machines and shopkeepers hawking beach balls on the sandswept promenade. But the sky on April 23 was overcast, and it hung over a different sort of crowd.

A few hundred people gathered at Clacton’s pier, many bearing pro-Brexit signs and wearing Union Jack pins.

When the sun shines on the town of Clacton-on-Sea on the east coast of England, its seafront plays host to sunbathers, kids feeding coins into arcade machines and shopkeepers hawking beach balls on the sandswept promenade. But the sky on April 23 was overcast, and it hung over a different sort of crowd. A few hundred people gathered at Clacton’s pier, many bearing pro-Brexit signs and wearing Union Jack pins.