“Ludicrous” claims are being used to sway public opinion on Brexit, says Monmouth MP David Davies, reports Hannah Jones.

Davies ridiculed so-called ‘Project Fear’ while speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday. Davies blamed “banks, businesses… and remain-supporting groups” for the “ludicrous scare stories” such as the approaching epidemic of ‘super-gonorrhoea’, an antibiotic-resistant form of a sexually transmitted infection.

The Eurosceptic MP highlighted contradictions in what he sees as an attempt to lose the support of people still wanting to leave the European Union, “We get told that there will be mass unemployment as a result of Brexit, but the next minute we are told that there will be a huge shortage of workers to fill all the jobs available."

"We are told one minute that we will run out of food, and the next we are told that farmers will be ruined by all the cheap food imports.”

Numerous leading supermarket bosses have warned lately of the consequences a no-deal Brexit could have on food supply lines.

Davies maintained that the claims are again the result of ‘Project Fear’ and were “not fooling anyone.”

Mr Davies claimed that the “stories just get more and more silly” and that some are “frankly ludicrous.”

"Last June the papers were saying that one of Britain’s top private GPs had reported a huge increase in adultery and venereal disease due to Brexit.

"There was a headline in the paper the following month saying that we would have super-gonorrhoea raging out of control due to Brexit.

"It almost came as a relief in September when another newspaper... reported there would be a shortage of Viagra as a result of Brexit.

"In the space of just three or four months, Britain had been turned from Sodom and Gomorrah into Eden before the fall.

Mr Davies continued to talk about meeting with workers in Holyhead who he claimed were, "perfectly well prepared for a no-deal Brexit".