FORMER Dudley South Conservative MP Chris Kelly has confirmed his backing for the Brexit campaign by unveiling a giant Vote Leave poster on the M5 motorway.

The 37-year-old, who stepped down last year to return to the family haulage firm Keltruck where he is now company chairman, made no secret of his Eurosceptic views during his time in Parliament.

Now he’s boldly showing his support for the campaign to leave the EU with the unveiling of the poster which he’s put up at junction 1 of the M5 where his family's Keltruck business is based – at the heart of the country’s motorway network.

He said: "Britain should seize this opportunity and vote to leave the undemocratic European Union. Only by doing so can we take control of our nation’s borders and destiny once again.

“If we Vote Leave next month we can take back control of our courts and deport dangerous criminals who are currently protected by EU law."

Prime Minister David Cameron claims leaving Europe would threaten the Britain’s economic and national security and he says the country will be “stronger, safer and better off by remaining inside the EU”.

He has also promised tough new restrictions on access to the welfare system for EU migrants and protections for the economy if Britain remains in the European Union - and he’s pledged to pursue further reform into the future.

But Mr Kelly says he’s been left "deeply disappointed" by Mr Cameron's renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU and he said: "The renegotiation process proved Brussels to be incapable of reform.”

He’s even gone as far as accusing the Government of carrying out a “campaign of subterfuge to conceal the scale of constitutional changes involved if we voted to stay in the EU”.

He continued: “The Prime Minister’s suggestion Britain would fail economically outside the EU is a nonsense — we are the fifth largest economy in the world with a proud trading history globally.

"It is absurd for the PM and the Chancellor, George Osborne, to suggest Britain has no power to conduct its own trade negotiations and do deals with fast growing economies around the world.

"The single market hasn’t delivered what was promised as illustrated by the fact the between 1992 and 2011 there were 27 non-EU countries whose exports of goods to the rest of the EU grew faster than the UK’s.

“The EU has shown itself to be profoundly undemocratic and we cannot change its direction. We cannot change the pace. We cannot interrupt the steady erosion of democracy unless we Vote Leave.

“Staying in the EU means handing over more money and more control to Brussels. It means even greater pressure on our public services through increased migration. That is why it is the safer choice to Vote Leave on June 23.”

Mr Cameron, however, says the leave campaigners are simply offering “risk at a time of uncertainty – a leap in the dark”.

Mr Kelly's successor Mike Wood has also confirmed his support for the Leave campaign.