The heated clash broke out after the Conservative MP hit out at Femi Oluwole over the Project Fear “lies” aimed at suggesting a vote for Brexit would have a devastating impact on the British economy. Mark Francois noted the campaign had claimed all travel to and from the European Union would come to a halt as well as saying the UK would run out of food but none of the warnings had come to happen. Speaking to the Jeremy Vine on 5 show, Mr Francois said: “It’s called democracy.
“We were told by the advocates of Project Fear that when we leave the European Union the planes won’t fly, the trucks won’t run, ferries will stop, the Eurostar won’t go.
“We’re going to run out of food in the supermarkets, people won’t get their insulin – none of that is going to happen.
“The Sun will rise in a free country and we will keep calm and carry on. It was all a lie, it was a lie.”
Mr Francois previously said: “The British people voted clearly in a referendum in 2016 to leave the European Union.
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“We got to a terrible mess in Parliament because many MPs simply refused to obey the instructions of the people. We had three years of trench warfare.”
But Mr Oluwole rejected the claims Mr Francois moved against the Remain camp saying the warnings were limited to a no deal scenario rather than the UK quitting the EU with an agreement.
He said: “On that particular point, as of tonight we’ll still be under EU rules. Those warnings were about no deal.
“And we won’t be having no deal because we’ll still be under EU rules.”
A transition period will begin at 11.01pm on Friday which will see all the current arrangements remain the same, though the UK will have no representatives in EU institutions.
British citizens will no longer also be EU citizens, though they can continue to travel as if they were.
Trade negotiations will start on March 3 and the UK will have 10 months to reach an agreement on the future commercial ties the country will have with the remaining EU member states.
The British Government has made clear that Britain must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement as well as agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.
