Jacob Rees-Mogg has compared the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union to the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo and Trafalgar as he insisted young people will “love” Brexit.

The leading Eurosceptic said the UK’s divorce from Brussels would be a similarly important moment in British history as he also suggested its significance would match the signing of the Magna Carta.

Mr Rees-Mogg also claimed younger generations would welcome Brexit when they realise it means they will be in charge of their own future rather than having their lives “determined” by Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission.

Mr Rees-Mogg has been a box office attraction at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester with activists willing to brave lengthy queues for the chance to hear him speak.