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Pub chain boss and fervent Brexiteer Mr Martin made his remarks as Mr Johnson geared up for another big week, starting with Monday's Parliamentary motion to call a general election.

Speaking on the day Chancellor Sajid Javid admitted there was zero chance of the UK leaving the bloc on October 31, despite Mr Johnson's now-famous "do or die" pledge, Mr 

Martin said: "A small number of people in Parliament don't want to leave and demanded that no deal was taken of the table. "The net effect of that is that we're still in

the EU. "I think we would have left by know if MPs had done their jobs. "And we'd probably have done so with a far better deal as well." Mr Martin has admitted he is no

fan of the deal which Mr Johnson brought back from Brussels last week, and which he has been battling to get through the Commons, so far without success. However, he chiefly blames Remainer 

MPs for holding up the process, explaining: "It's a shame for the UK public that a few people in Parliament can do this. "They are making the public pay - and when the dust

settles people will realise that. "The public feels they are being conned here." READ MORE: BREXIT STITCH-UP: WETHERSPOONS BOSS TIM MARTIN REJECTS BORIS’S DEAL "It basically

boils down to saying: 'Give me your accounts on one page. "In other words - keep it simple, something the European Union never does. We need Churchill back!" Mr Martin would

like to see a "clean break" Brexit, as advocated by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, believing Mr Johnson's proposals would tie the UK far too closely to the EU. As such he

would like to see the Conservative Party team up with Mr Farage's fledgeling political outfit to form a Leave alliance, regarding that as the best way of delivering such an outcome.

However, he is far from convinced Britain will actually go to the polls next month, irrespective of the Prime Minister's efforts. He said: "I would've thought that there will

have to be an election at some point. "People assume there will be one before the end of the year and maybe they are right. "But often when people are that confident they turn out

to be wrong."