“We used to have proper Parliamentary debates then that went on a bit. Were he to come back… he’d be rather upset to find we are giving up the principles of free trade.
“But were he to find the reason we were giving up the EU free trade was to keep out more foreigners, I think he would have been surprised and probably pleasantly surprised.
“Though actually, not totally, he was as keen on free trade as I am.”
The odd remark came after the renegade also used his 10 minute speech ahead of the vote on the Government’s EU divorce Bill to accuse the Government of becoming anti-migration.
During the impassioned address, he also referenced Mr Powell, as he said the late Tory MP would have been surprised to see what had become of the Tories.
“If he was here he would probably find it amazing to believe that his party had become Eurosceptic and rather mildly anti-immigrant in a strange way in 2016,” he said.
“I’m afraid on that I haven’t followed them and I don’t intend to do so.”
On Wednesday evening, Mr Clarke was the only Tory MP to ignore the will of the British people as he voted against the Government’s EU bill.
Defending his decision ignore the people’s demand for freedom from the red-tape obsessed bloc, Mr Clarke told LBC he would have been laughed at had he voted with the rest of his party.
The EU-loving Tory said: "I think my views are so well known, and for 50 years I've not only been pro-EU, pro-European, but really quite actively involved in Britain's involvement with the steadily growing European Union.
"That Eurosceptics... would have been utterly amazed if I'd cast a vote in favour of Britain leaving the European Union. I would have been laughed at."
The barmy excuse for ignoring the will of the British people came after he directly after the vote in the House of Commons declared his fight against Brexit was not over.
He also accused the Government of not having a credible plan in place to divorce Britain from the EU ahead of the forthcoming negotiations.
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