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Shameless vacuum cleaner tycoon Sir James Dyson has called for the government to make it easier to fire people after Brexit , and for corporation tax to be scrapped.

And the billionaire inventor said it is time for Britain to walk away from Brexit talks, because Europe is being “incredibly unreasonable.”

Asked how manufacturing in Britain can be revitalised after Brexit, Sir James blamed, in part, Britain’s “very difficult” employment laws.

He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr: “This is controversial, but since I don’t know what orders I’m going to get next month or next year, and the manufacturing industry is very volatile, not being able to flex your workforce is another reason why you wouldn’t start or expand a manufacturing business.”

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He added that it should be “easier to hire and fire” people.

Sir James also called for corporation tax should be “eliminated”.

He said: “A tax on profits is the wrong way to tax people. Corporation tax is a very odd thing because there’s ways to get around paying it.

“You shouldn’t really be taxing people’s profits, you should allow profits to be reinvested. And also, if you remove corporation tax you encourage a lot of other industry to come to Britain.”

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Britain already has the lowest corporation tax rates of any of the World’s top 20 economies.

Sir James also said it is time to walk away from the Brexit negotiations.

The entrepreneur, who campaigned for Leave in the referendum, said it was quite outrageous that Brussels was demanding "billions and billions".

Sir James also called for an end to corporation tax, insisting there were better ways to impose levies on companies.

He said: "Demanding billions and billions to leave is quite outrageous and demanding it before we negotiate anything is outrageous.

"So, I would walk away. I think that's the only way to deal with them."

Sir James said he believed 90% of future growth would come from outside the EU.