He said: “Imagine you invited a very important guest around for dinner and you’ve made all the preparations and there were some very important confidential conversations that needed to be had and you thought everything had gone well. 

 

“And yet within hours, your guest had told the outside world that you the host were deluded. 

 

“That you were living in a different galaxy and then all the contents of the conversation were blabbed to an opposition newspaper.”

 

Ridiculing Mr Juncker for claiming the English language was becoming obsolete on the continent, the Brexiteer continued: “And to add insult to injury you say the food wasn’t actually very good either and then a few days later, in a display of extreme petulance you even degrade the national language of the host.