STICK IT UP YER JUNCKER

BRITONS will “regret” their vote for Brexit, according to EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker.

The European Commission President hit out last night, saying Britain severing ties with Brussels was a tragedy.

He claimed “the wind is back in Europe’s sails”.

And the gobby bureaucrat added: “This will be a very sad and tragic moment in our history.

“We will always regret this, and I think that you will regret it as well, soon.

“Nonetheless, we have to respect the will of the British people. But we are going to make progress.

“We will move on because Brexit is not everything, it is not the future of everything, it is not the be all and end all.”

During his speech, setting out the future direction of the bloc, he circulated a letter describing 2016 as his “annus horribilis” – Latin for horrible year.

The Eurocrat pinched the term famously used by the Queen after a series of catastrophes hit the royals in 1992, including Charles and Diana splitting up and a fire at Windsor Castle.

But the penpusher, 62, also crowed that the world was “knocking at our door” to sign trade agreements with the EU.

Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage told MEPs after Mr Juncker’s address: “All I can say is: ‘Thank God we’re leaving.’”

Meanwhile Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates said Britain would keep its place as a world-leading science and technology hub after Brexit.

Gates, 61, explained that firms would carry on investing in the UK’s top research universities “because they are the best at doing lots of this important work”.