French President Emmanuel Macron may be tempted to tell the UK to “p*** off” out of the Brussels bloc if no progress is made in Brexit negotiations by the end of October this year, a professor has claimed. Alan Sked, who founded Ukip, insisted the prospect of the UK leaving the European Union without a Brexit agreement had become “very likely”. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Mr Sked also claimed he could not see how Parliament could now block a no deal exit.

He said: “No deal is much much more likely. It was almost the last throw of the dice in Parliament when the Labour Party desperately tried to get a coalition to make it impossible for no deal to happen, but that didn’t work.

“I can’t see, even John Bercow, with the mad, rogue Speaker, I can’t see if there is anything he can do to stop it.

“Boris is saying he won’t rule out proroguing Parliament if it does come to a crisis over no deal, that’s fine. But, I don’t think that will be necessary now.”

He added: “Everything I think depends on the European Union. There is also the chance that Macron, the President of France, will just get so fed up with us he will just tell us to “p*** off” and we will be kicked out.

Macron will just get so fed up with us he will just tell us to p*** off

Brexiteer Alan Sked

“That would be good from our point of view, you could almost say ‘we were willing to negotiate but the French said no’.

“Macron has been tempted to say ‘no’ in the past, and he has got the backing of countries like Luxembourg, Spain and Lithuania.”

Before the UK was granted a Brexit extension until the end of October this year, reports suggested the French President was willing for the UK to leave without a Brexit agreement.

Before the European elections in May, the French President said he wanted to avoid the UK “polluting” the EU after October 31.

Mr Macron said: “In the case of Brexit, you just have to know at some point whether it stops or not.

“If we follow the logic of saying that it scares us and that we are prepared not to respect the British vote, we betray both the British and the interest of the British.”

Macron added: “That’s why I spoke. But I did not try to act alone. If I had wanted, the French veto would have been enough to block unanimity.

“We have, with Charles Michel and Chancellor Merkel in particular, built a consensus around 31 October, that is to say before the establishment of the new Commission, to prevent the next mandate being polluted by this subject we’ve been talking about for three years.”

Earlier this month, a motion that would have paved the way to enabling Parliament to block a no deal Brexit was blocked by MPs.

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Shortly after the vote, Tory Remainer Oliver Letwin admitted Parliament has run out of options to prevent the next Prime Minister pushing through a no deal Brexit.

Conservative MP Boris Johnson is the favourite to take over as Britain’s next Tory leader and as Prime Minister.

On Tuesday, Mr Johnson reaffirmed his position to deliver Brexit by the end of October this year.

He said: “We are getting ready to come out on 31 October. Come what may. Do or die. Come what may.”

He added: “It’s got to be, we need a new withdrawal agreement – if we’re going to go out on the basis of a withdrawal agreement.”

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has also said he would be willing to pull the UK out of the EU without a deal at the end of October, but it was not his first choice.

But, earlier this week, Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood claimed around a dozen Conservative MPs would support a vote of no confidence in the Government to stop a no-deal Brexit.

On the possibility of some Tory MPs supporting the “nuclear option” of denying the Government Commons support if it pushed for no deal, Mr Ellwood told the BBC: “I believe that absolutely is the case.”

Conservative MP for Rushcliffe, and Father of the House, Kenneth Clarke, also admitted on Monday he would bring down the Government to prevent no deal.

Mr Clarke told BBC’s World at One: “If it’s heading for a no deal simply because the Government can’t go round doing anything then, yes, I think I would.

“I am a life-long Conservative, that means I am pro-business, I am in favour of free markets, I am in favour of free trade and I think all of those should be combined with a strong social conscience, because I am a one nation Conservative.”

Conservative MP Dominic Grieve has suggested himself and at least 15 other Tory MPs would be willing to put “country over party” and prevent a no deal Brexit, which could potentially trigger a general election.

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