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A RESPECTED former Bank of England boss has launched a powerful defence of leaving the EU and rejected calls for a so called “soft Brexit”.

In contrast to his gloomy successor Mark Carney, Mervyn King said Britain needed to be be more “self-confident” about our chances outside of the economically “pretty unsuccessful” EU.

In a blistering attacking on Remoaners, Lord King, who quit Threadneedle Street in 2013, said “it’s not the end of the world, and there are real opportunities that arise from the fact of Brexit that we might take.”

And he rejected plans to try keep as much of Europe as possible when we leave, saying we must not “pretend we should remain in the single market,”.

He added: “I think there are real question marks about whether it makes sense to remain in the customs union.”

He warned: “Clearly if we do that we cannot make our own trade deals with other countries.”

Speaking to the BBC, Lord King also called time on the whole European project, claiming it was facing “existential problems” over migration and the single currency.

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Remainers won't like that.

New research by the Change Britain campaign showed that a huge £24 billion a year prize is up for grabs if Theresa May rejects a so called “soft Brexit”.

Their option – which it describes as “clean Brexit” – could see annual savings of almost £10.4 billion from contributions to the EU budget and £1.2 billion from scrapping “burdensome” regulations, while also allowing the UK to forge new trade deals worth at least £12.3 billion.

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