16-05-2025
We are running the definition of a Union Jack up the flagpole
It has been a red, white and blue week, and not just on the jackstaffs of Royal Navy ships. At the VE Day celebrations, we said, the Cenotaph 'was draped in a large Union Jack'; earlier we wrote of the Reform UK plan to ban all flags but Union Jacks and St George's crosses from council buildings. A party spokesman took a pop at those who were 'upset about Reform councils flying the Union flag' — which will have been a relief to Jack Brenchley of Tonbridge.
'With reference to your article on the front page on Tuesday,' he wrote, 'the use of Union Jack is incorrect. The Union flag becomes the Union Jack only when flown from one of His Majesty's ships or submarines,
