What is the "Brexit Festival"? Everything we know about the 'extremely expensive and deeply unpopular' celebration

A multi-million art festival dubbed the 'Brexit Festival' fell considerably short of expected attendance after attracting just 238,000 people.

Organizers of the £120million Unboxed celebration, which is sponsored by the government and is proposing a post-Brexit arts events programme, had set a "stretch target" of 66 million attendees.

However, government figures for four events revealed a total of 238,000 people attended, just 0.36% of the stretch target, according to The House magazine.

The event has been widely dubbed a "Brexit Festival" , a name first used by Brexit Opportunities Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg.

< p>Boxless organizers have now been criticized for politicizing the events, with director Martin Green saying he was 'unfortunate' that the 'Festival of Brexit' tag stuck.

Naomi Smith, group chief executive of Best for Britain, said the festival was 'the perfect metaphor for how Brexit has left it'. -even turned out - extremely expensive and deeply unpopular with no one really getting what they wanted".

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