SUPER-gonorrhoea and food shortage crises are just some of the "ludicrous" claims being made to scare people into remaining in the EU, according to Monmouth MP David Davies.

Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr Davies derided the so-called 'Project Fear' – a perceived scaremongering campaign by anti-Brexit groups.

A band of "banks, businesses...and remain-supporting groups", Mr Davies said, were responsible for "ludicrous scare stories" including an imminent epidemic of 'super-gonorrhoea' – an antibiotic-resistant strain of the sexually-transmitted infection.

The pro-Brexit MP pointed out a number of contradictions in what he sees as a concerted effort to get leave voters to change their minds.

"We get told that there will be mass unemployment as a result of Brexit, but the next minute we are told that there will be a huge shortage of workers to fill all the jobs available," Mr Davies said in parliament.

"We are told one minute that we will run out of food, and the next we are told that farmers will be ruined by all the cheap food imports.

"I was on the radio a few weeks ago with an academic, who said that 12,000 people will die due to a lack of fresh fruit and veg.

"Needless to say he is from London, because I could have shown him a few orchards in Monmouth where we grow plenty of fruit and vegetables."

Bosses of several leading supermarkets have warned recently of the consequences a no-deal Brexit could have on food supply lines.

But Mr Davies said such claims amounted to 'Project Fear' on steroids and were "not fooling anyone".

"These stories just get more and more silly. Last June the papers were saying that one of Britain’s top private GPs had reported a huge increase in adultery and venereal disease due to Brexit.

"There was a headline in the paper the following month saying that we would have super-gonorrhoea raging out of control due to Brexit.

"It almost came as a relief in September when another newspaper... reported there would be a shortage of Viagra as a result of Brexit.

"In the space of just three or four months, Britain had been turned from Sodom and Gomorrah into Eden before the fall as a result of Brexit.

"Those stories are frankly ludicrous."

Mr Davies went on to talk about meeting with workers in Holyhead who were, he said, "perfectly well prepared for a no-deal Brexit".

He concluded by calling on MPs to share leave voters' "optimism and confidence" about Brexit.