A countdown clock ticking down to October 31 has been delivered to Downing Street.
The countdown clock, worth an estimated £500, will be displayed in Boris Johnson’s office, No 10 confirmed.
A similar one has been hung in the Conservative Party’s headquarters, below a message saying, “We will have delivered Brexit and left the EU by . . .”.
On Wednesday the Tories tweeted a photo of James Cleverly, the party chairman, grinning and pointing to the clock. “We will deliver Brexit by October 31st,” he said.
The clock was paid for by the party not the taxpayer, according to a spokesman for the prime minister. It was manufactured by the Oxfordshire-based company Wharton Intelligent Time Systems, and displays 6cm high digits that can be