Epsom and Ewell MP Chris Grayling slammed David Cameron’s EU reform deal, saying it could leave the UK in a worse situation than it was before.

Speaking at a Vote Leave event in Westminster on Thursday, Mr Grayling also asserted a ‘Brexit’ would ‘create opportunities for more jobs’.

Later in the day, Mr Cameron accused Leave campaigners like Mr Grayling, of seeing lost jobs as ‘a price worth paying’ of leaving the EU.

Mr Grayling said in his speech the Prime Minister’s concession – as part of his new deal – that the UK would not interfere in further Eurozone integration was a ‘significant loss of leverage’.

He said: “One of the inadvertent consequences of the renegotiation is that we have agreed that Britain shall not impede the implementation of legal acts directly linked to the functioning of the Euro area.

“This is a significant, and under-appreciated, loss of leverage.”

The leader of the House of Commons also criticised the agreement for not altering the extent to which the EU governs Britons’ lives.

He said: “The renegotiation has not returned powers to parliament or the people elected and accountable to it.”

Mr Grayling is one of the most prominent members of the Government to campaign for Brexit alongside Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith.

He is also set to host a meeting with Epsom and Ewell Eurosceptics on Saturday to discuss the upcoming campaign ahead of the June 23 referendum.

The meeting – at 1pm in the meeting room at the back of the Epsom Conservative Club in Church Street, Epsom – follows a series of ‘Leave’ street stalls set up this week.