SIR Ian Botham backed Boris Johnson's Brexit campaign during a photocall in County Durham today, with a warning the country could get "cluttered" if the UK votes to remain.

The pair met at a Vote Leave event at Chester-le-Street Cricket Club, close to Durham's ground where England had just beaten Sri Lanka.

Sir Ian said: "I have been lucky enough to grow up in a wonderful country, a country that has always been able to look after itself."

But he felt power has been "eroded by Brussels", adding: "I think, hang on, enough's enough."

Sir Ian said if the EU was inviting the UK to join afresh, we would "give it a very wide berth".

Asked about how the campaign was going, he said pollsters had been wrong before, and there was still three weeks to go.

And when was asked about concerns over job losses if the EU voted to leave, Sir Ian said: "If we stay, who's going to get those jobs?

"The people coming into our country, they don't seem to have to come over with a job, any qualifications, just turn up.

"I think it will get cluttered.

"I would actually start thinking, 'hang on a minute, we've got enough people in this country'.

"If you want 100m people in this country, then so be it if that's what you want, do it.

"But I don't think people really want that.

"I think it would be nice to go back to being England." Sir Ian then corrected himself, by saying "the UK".

He was speaking after watching Mr Johnson smash a few gently bowled balls over the boundary at Chester-le-Street Cricket Club.

Mr Johnson had also obliged the photographers by bowling some medium pace deliveries at a young batsman.

His performance with the bat and ball skills prompted Sir Ian to comment Mr Johnson had improved since the last time he saw him play.