Now Jolyon faces legal action

Like Rembrandt or Michelangelo, Mariah or Britney, Jolyon Maugham is a performance artist simply known by his first name. The journey of this Rumpole of remainers from obscurity to Twitter fame was slow but steady. He first hit the headlines during the Ed Miliband years when, as Labour’s non-dom adviser, he was revealed to have represented multiple so-called ‘celebrity tax dodge film schemes.’

Then came Brexit and his reinvention as the High Priest of remainier. In 2017 he announced plans for his own party – ‘Spring’ – and his intention to hold a 28-day festival at a Maidenhead football stadium, with each day dedicated to the national dress and cuisine of a different EU member state. Christmas 2019 saw Maugham’s magnum opus: splashing the front page of the Financial Times after bragging on social media about battering a fox to death on Boxing Day with a baseball bat while wearing his wife’s satin green kimono.