A local MP crossed party lines by sharing a stage with Nigel Farage and urging voters to back leaving the European Union this June.

Conservative MP David Davies, a strident critic of the EU, joined UKIP leader Nigel Farage at an event rallying support for a historic vote to end Britain’s EU membership.

The outspoken Eurosceptics addressed a crowd of around 500 people in Newport last week as the run-up to June’s referendum begins to boil.

Mr Davies issued a battle cry for ordinary voters to play their part ‘in another wonderful chapter in the history of Great Britain’.

“It is time to take back control of our money, control of our borders and control of our laws and the politicians who make them,” he said.

The right-wingers stood alongside a number of influential pro-Brexit supporters, including UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill, head of Labour Leave group Brendan Chilton and Daily Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer.

Organised by cross-party alliance Grassroots Out, the event aimed to mobilise members of the public to vote for Britain to leave the EU in the referendum on June 23.

“Every year the EU’s own accountants look at the books and are unable to account for billions of pounds which it is spending.

“If it were a limited company it would have been shut down years ago for failing to keep proper records,” said Mr Davies.

He added that the EU had failed ‘disastrously’ to control immigration, an issue polled to be top of potential voters’ concerns.

“All of us want to help genuine refugees fleeing war, but leaders like Angela Merkel have simply opened the door to anyone in the world who wants a better standard of living.

“As a result, millions of people are entering Europe illegally. The vast majority are young men who come from countries with very different cultural attitudes towards women’s rights. It’s a problem we can’t ignore.

“The EU now wants to distribute migrants across the continent and give visa-free travel to Turkey, which will make matters worse,” he said.

With more than half of the UK’s laws and regulations apparently set in Brussels, the Tory MP challenged the audience to name any of the 28 unelected European Commissioners.

“Hardly anyone knows who they are and we don’t have any way of getting rid of them. The system is fundamentally undemocratic,” said Mr Davies.

“The British people alone should decide who makes our laws. And if our lawmakers do their jobs badly we should have the power to chuck them out.

“I call that democracy.”

The European referendum is set for Thursday June 23 of this year.