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Australia's former prime minister Tony Abbott has been ridiculed by trade experts after saying Britain would experience no problems if the country left the European Union without a deal.

Britain is scheduled to leave on March 29, but Prime Minister Theresa May faces pulling the country out of the EU without an agreement after her proposed deal was shot down by MPs in January.

Mr Abbott, writing in a column for The Spectator, said the country would struggle with 'at most a few months of inconvenience' and any difficulties would quickly pass if no deal was reached.

In his column's opening paragraph, Mr Abbott mocked those who feared the prospect of a no-deal Brexit. 

'Apparently the country that saw off Hitler, the Kaiser, Napoleon and the Spanish Armada is now paralysed with fear at the very thought of leaving the EU,' he said.

But former World Trade Organisation negotiator for Australia, Dmitry Grozoubinski, accused the

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