Brexit ranter ‘launched racist attack’

  A UCL student ranted about Brexit and launched a vicious racist attack against his friend as they took an Uber ride back from a night out, a court heard. Stephen Ward, 48, allegedly told Azim Ul-Haque that his parents came from the ‘gutters’ before punching him in the head in the minicab on 3 October 2016. Moments earlier Ward had been praising the Brexit vote and moaning about immigration, saying the country was overcrowded, jurors heard. The pair, who…