John Cleese says he is backing Brexit in scathing attack on Brussels bureaucrats

Fawlty Towers actor John Cleese has suggested the only way to reform the European Union is to kill the European Commission president.

The 76-year-old, who said he will be voting to leave the European Union in next week’s EU Referendum, said he did not believe there was any chance of major reform in the EU.

In a series of tweets, Cleese made his views on remaining in the European Union clear.

He posted: “If I thought there was any chance of major reform in the EU, I’d vote to stay in. But there isn’t. Sad. Sorry, Paddy.”

When asked what kind of reforms the EU needs, Cleese replied: “It should give up the Euro, introduce accountability, and hang Jean-Claude Juncker.”

Mr Juncker is the president of the European Commission.

Cleese also said Britain had been “swimming against the tide” to try and make changes in Brussels and said that bureaucrats had taken away “any trace of democratic accountability”.