PA • GETTY Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg described ex-US President Bill Clinton as 'wholly discredited'

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It today emerged former prime minister Tony Blair has been tasked with arranging for the ex-US president to fly in to Britain to urge UK voters to remain in the EU on June 23. Mr Clinton is expected to visit Britain once his wife Hillary has secured the Democratic nomination ahead of November’s presidential election. Teaming up with Mr Blair, the former US leader is likely to reinforce the anti-Brexit warning delivered by President Obama last month. But prominent Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg today welcomed a possible intrusion into the Brexit debate by Mr Clinton. The North East Somerset MP told Express.co.uk he was “absolutely thrilled more foreign politicians will tell us we have to stay” as he suggested Mr Clinton’s intervention would be “an even bigger boost to Brexit than President Obama’s”.

President Obama’s claim Britain would be “at the back of the queue” for a post-Brexit trade deal with America was widely considered to have backfired on the ‘Remain’ campaign. A YouGov poll published after President Obama’s visit to Britain showed a rise in support for Brexit, with 42 per cent saying they would vote to quit the EU compared to 41 per cent who said they want to remain. The survey also revealed that while President Obama is the most trusted politician on the EU referendum - with 35 per cent saying they trusted the US leader - Mr Clinton is the least trusted. Only 14 per cent trusted the ex-president, meaning Mr Clinton is less trusted by British voters on the EU than David Cameron (20 per cent) or Jeremy Corbyn (29 per cent).

GETTY The ex-US president will reportedly team up with Tony Blair

For all his failures Obama is still moderately popular while Clinton is now a wholly discredited figure with few admirers Jacob Rees-Mogg

Mr Clinton’s eight-year spell in the White House between 1993 and 2001 is best remembered for an impeachment row after he had an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. Mr Rees-Mogg said: “Mrs Clinton’s upright moral stand shows how much we can trust him. “For all his failures Obama is still moderately popular while Clinton is now a wholly discredited figure with few admirers.” The leading Conservative eurosceptic said it was “instructive the Remain camp keep running off to foreigners” to make the case for staying in the EU as they don’t trust British politicians to win the argument. He accused Remain campaigners of having a “fundamental lack of confidence in their country” and highlighted the oddity of the US having “little to do with international organisations” while insisting “we are run by Bulgaria”. Mr Rees-Mogg added: “We don’t want to be the 51st state of the United States or the 28th state of the European Union of states.”

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