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Outgoing European Council President Donald Tusk has urged British voters not to “give up” on stopping Brexit.

As campaigning ramps up ahead of next month’s general election, he warned that leaving the EU would leave the UK a “second-rate player”.

In a speech, he also said Brexit would likely mark the “real end of the British Empire”.

He is due to step down from his role next month, having held the post for five years.

Mr Tusk’s intervention comes as Conservative leader Boris Johnson said the UK Parliament was “paralysed” and had refused “time and again to honour the mandate of the people and to deliver Brexit”.

Meanwhile, the UK has continued to refuse to put forward

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