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The “ludicrous” claim was made in a speech by the European Commissioner’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier as he tried to play hardball over the forthcoming BREXIT talks. But he was lambasted

by senior Tory MP Peter Bone who laughed when he heard Mr Barnier’s suggestion and reposted that Britain’s wartime leader would have demanded Britain’s £184 billion back from the EU and

“not paid a penny to leave” a senior Tory MP has claimed. The Wellingborough Conservative MP who led the Brexit campaign group Grassroots Out said: “Actually if Winston Churchill had had his

way we wouldn’t have even joined the EU. “He wanted a union of nations on the continent not for Britain to be part of it.” The Tory MP was touching on the false claims regularly made by

Remoaners and figures in Brussels that Churchill would have wanted britain to remain in the EU and was a pioneer of its creation. Mr Bone went on: “Barnier’s claims are completely ludicrous.

The reality is Churchill would have wanted all our money back and certainly would not have a paid a penny to leave.” Mr Barnier has threatened to take Britain to the hague international

court if it fails to pay his demand for £52 billion. He told a European Parliament Committee that Britain would be worse off if there is no deal trhan the EU, a position refuted by the

British Government. He said: “This scenario of a non-agreement, a no deal, is not ours. We want an agreement. We want to succeed. Success not against the British, but with them.” Raising the

issue of the stunning exit fee demand, the eurocrat quoted Winston Churchill, as he continued: “The price of greatness is responsibility. When a country leaves the union, there is no

punishment.  "There is no price to pay to leave, but we must settle the accounts. No more, no less. “We will not ask the British to pay a single euro for something they have not agreed

to as a member. “The best relationship with the EU would be to remain a member of the Union. The second best one would be to be a member of the European Economic Area like Norway.” The

threats were dismissed by Downing Street. A Downing Street spokesman said: "We have set out our position very clearly on this on a number of occasions. What is important to recognise is

that we go into these negotiations in a spirit of huge goodwill.  "Our ambition is to get the best possible deal for the UK but also one that works in the best interests of the other

27 member states. “We want to protect the rights of European citizens living here but it is equally right that there is a reciprocal arrangement for the million or so UK citizens that are

spread across the other member states. “We have been clear about what we want to achieve, we have also been clear we want this to be a priority in the negotiations once they have started.”