Tory peer Lord Lamont let rip during a BBC Radio 4 interview just after Tony Blair’s made a call to have a second referendum on the Brexit deal once negotiations are over.

The Brexiteer criticised Blair’s comments calling the interview a mere “attempt to sabotage the result of the referendum”.

He said: “I can think of very few interviews I’ve heard in my life that are absolutely designed to increase cynicism about politics.

“This was simply an attempt to sabotage the result of the referendum. 

“It was straight out of the EU school of referendums: only vote if you already know what the result is going to be, if it’s a no, you vote again, if it’s a yes you carry on. 

“This was pure cynicism by him. An attempt to blatantly frustrate the result of the referendum.”

The Conservative peer claimed Blair’s interventions are jeopardising the negotiations between Prime Minister Theresa May and Brussels as they set up a basis to get a bad offer from the EU. 

He said: “More seriously it is very much against the national interest. How are the Government meant to get a good deal if we’re going to have voices like Tony Blair’s at home saying ‘Oh whatever deal is achieved must be subject to another referendum’.

“That would be an absolute incentive to the EU to give us the worst possible deal.”

Lord Lamont also said it would be ridiculous to put a second Brexit vote before the British people as this would never be the case with a general election. 

He said: “When people vote in a general election they vote on various broad themes and they vote on various broad issues. you can always say ‘oh we didn’t know all the details’. 

“No doubt once the Government have negotiated a deal there will be a cry for ‘oh, we didn’t know all the detail’, and when would this referendum be held? Are we going to extend the timetable? And what exactly would be the question?”