David Cameron’s ex-EU Commissioner Lord Hill tells Remoaners to get over Brexit as it is not a catastrophe like the Black Death

DAVID CAMERON’s former EU Commissioner has told ‘Remoaners’ to get over Brexit – saying it’s not a catastrophe like the “black death or Second World War”.

Lord Hill resigned in disgust just two days after the Referendum vote last June.

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But speaking yesterday he said it was time for feuding politicians to stop arguing over “backward looking” issues.

He is launching a think tank with a hedge fund manager designed to bring warring sides together to discuss a ‘constructive’ Brexit.

The Conservative peer said: “The language of the debate, polarised between catastrophe and liberation, is part of the problem.

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“For me a catastrophe was the Black Death or the Second World War.”

Sir Paul Marshall, a Vote Leave donor and co-founder of the Marshall Wace hedge fund, said the Lib Dems had “lost the plot” over Europe.

And he said: “I go into the business world and people are just getting on with it. And that’s what we need to do for the country.”