Mr Hilton added in an article for the Daily Mail: “Membership of the EU makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country.”

“A democracy is based on the notion that the people – or their directly-elected representatives – are able to decide issues for themselves. And yet membership of the EU brings with it constraints on everything from employment law to family policy, all determined through distant, centralised processes we hardly understand, let alone control.”