UNELECTED EU president Donald Tusk urged Britain to make a U-turn on Brexit yesterday.

Addressing MEPs in Strasbourg, Mr Tusk said: “If the UK government sticks to its decision to leave, Brexit will become a reality — with all its negative consequences — in March next year unless there is a change of heart among our British friends.”

He insisted that the EU had not had a “change of heart” over Brexit, telling the British: “Our hearts are still open to you.”

The EU Council president hinted at an Irish-style second referendum on leaving the EU, saying British Brexit Secretary David Davis himself had said: “if a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.”

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said he hoped Mr Tusk’s message “will be heard clearly in London.”

And German MEP Manfred Weber mocked Britain’s plan to issue its passports in dark blue rather than burgundy.