Ticket sales slump after Brexiteers' boycott threat

Three Choirs Festival Chief Executive Dr Alexis Paterson said sales for a performance of Beethoven's 9th were "below the level we would generally expect for our final night" after Brexiteers threatened to organise a boycott of the show. Paterson said the inclusion of a symphony that contains the EU anthem was not politically motivated and that there were likely to be a number of reasons why sales had so far been sluggish.