Pro-EU campaigner Gina Miller says she wants to set up a ‘progressive alliance’ – but DENIES she’s obsessed with Europe
The businesswoman held a campaign event on a boat in the Thames today
CHIEF Remoaner Gina Miller today revealed she wants to set up a 'progressive alliance' to fight for closer ties to the EU.
The businesswoman also denied that she is obsessed with Brexit - saying that it is Leave voters who can't move on from the referendum.
Mrs Miller, 52, who took the Government to court to force them to hold a parliamentary vote, is backing pro-Europe candidates across the UK.
This afternoon she held a campaign event on a boat on the Thames alongside a Liberal Democrat candidate.
She said her new movement was totally non-partisan - even though it is only backing Labour, Lib Dem and Green candidates and not anti-Brexit Tories.
Mrs Miller told The Sun: "We're not just backing one party or another.
"We have approached Tory candidates, but they have ruled themselves out because the manifesto has an extreme Brexit in it."
Asked why she had not set up her own pro-EU party, she said that there had been no time to start a new operation before the snap election.
She added: "A progressive alliance may well be the answer, but we'll have to wait and see what happens."
Mrs Miller's organisation, Best for Britain, has raised more than £400,000 through an online crowdfunding campaign.
It is backing 25 candidates including Nick Clegg, Chuka Umunna and Caroline Lucas.
One of the candidates supported by Mrs Miller is George Turner, the Lib Dem contender in Vauxhall, who joined her on the boat today.
The stunt was intended to mock the moment last year when Kate Hoey, Vauxhall's pro-Brexit Labour MP, posed on a boat with Nigel Farage during the EU referendum campaign.
Asked if he has a chance of unseating Ms Hoey, who has held the seat for 28 years, Mr Turner joked: "Stranger things have happened at sea."
Despite her incessant pro-EU campaigning, Mrs Miller said that she no longer hoped to undo the result of last year's Brexit vote.
She said: "What I get is a lot of people saying they're apathetic about the thought of another referendum.
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"We shouldn't be talking about Remain and Leave, we should be talking about what happens next.
"The only people who are talking about Remain and Leave are the Leavers."
Mrs Miller, a financier and entrepreneur, shot to national fame when she helped fund a court case which ended up forcing the Government to hold a vote in Parliament on triggering Article 50.
She complained about receiving online abuse in the wake of her high profile, but has refused to leave public life.
*In a previous version of this article it was stated that Gina Miller wants to set up a political party. Her representatives have stated that this is not the case.