Nationalist group leaders agree to stop hoisting St George’s flags in Oxfordshire

Leaders of the nationalist group Raise the Colours have agreed to stop hoisting England flags on lamp-posts in Oxfordshire after the local authority sought a high court injunction against the campaign . Ryan Bridge, Ben Cullen and Trudy Wells told the high court on Tuesday they would not raise St George’s flags from Oxfordshire county council property, encourage others to do so or impede council workers from taking them down. Cullen told the court that a fourth leader of the group, Kevin Good, who was not present in court, had also agreed to have “nothing more to do with flags” in Oxfordshire. Mr Justice Dias indicated he would be willing to support the council’s application for an injunction against unauthorised flag raising against the four defendants as well as “persons unknown”, subject to the wording of the order being agreed. Ryan Bridge attends an event discussing immigration, hosted by Policy Exchange, in Westminster, London last week. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA The Raise the Colours campaign has been putting up flags across the country since August last year, the court heard. Bridge, who like all three defendants was representing himself, told the court the council were using “bullying tactics” but he agreed to the proposed terms of the injunction. …