“So I’m delighted to join the in campaign’s board as chair, and I look forward to introducing the rest of the board at our campaign event on Monday”, Rose said as quoted by the newspaper on Friday.
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Will Straw, a former Labour parliamentary candidate and executive director of the campaign, told BuzzFeed News that a host of senior figures from “business, culture, entertainment and security” would be backing the pro-EU group – a few of whom are “household names”.
Lord Rose of Monewden, the Conservative peer who headed Marks and Spencer between 2004 and 2010, boosted Europhiles with his appointment as emails leaked to The Times showed the acrimony between rival Brexit campaigns.
“But the British are remaining vague, and we’re not making any progress”.
Two groups are competing to be designated by the Electoral Commission as the official “out” campaign body. “The choice in the coming referendum is between remaining stronger, safer and better-off inside Europe, or taking a leap into the unknown, risking our prosperity, threatening our safety, and diminishing our influence in the world”.
The In Campaign said Lord Rose would take up the position with immediate effect.
Many United Kingdom companies are anxious about the possibility of losing easy access to their main export markets and there are also concerns about the impact on Britain’s financial services industry if Britons vote to leave the EU.
He will do battle with another Tory member of the House of Lords, former chancellor Lord Lawson, who is leading the Conservative campaign to leave the EU.
Whichever group comes out on top will enjoy advantages including higher spending limits, campaign broadcasts and public funding of up to £600,000.
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“I believe that we can listen to David’s ideas and use many of them to make the European Union a better place”. Last month the two men publicly clashed at UKIP’s conference in Doncaster when Banks suggested Carswell should face deselection if he failed to back his campaign.
