Boss of trendy Superdry brand gives £1million to Remoaner campaign to overturn Brexit referendum
Julian Dunkerton is funding a series of polls designed to change the public's mind on Brexit
A FASHION tycoon is pumping £1million into the anti-Brexit campaign for a second referendum on the EU.
Julian Dunkerton, the founder of trendy brand Superdry, has joined the bid to overturn the result of the 2016 vote.
He is paying for a string of new polls intended to change the public's mind on Brexit.
The move is the latest sign the pro-EU campaign is preparing for one final push ahead of the moment Britain officially quits the EU next March.
Mr Dunkerton, 53, left his role at Superdry this year after the firm made him a multi-millionaire.
He claimed the company would never have become a success outside the EU because it relies on close trade links with Europe.
And he compared Brexit to "being served undercooked chicken in a restaurant", adding: "Do you eat it, knowing it will make you ill, or do you send it back and order a steak instead?
"What I want is to enable people to send this Brexit back."
Mr Dunkerton's donation will go to the People's Vote campaign, which developed from the official Remain movement in the 2016 referendum.
He is now the single biggest donor to the campaign as it ramps up its activities and continues a hiring spree.
Superdry has previously been criticised for paying workers just 28p an hour after The Sun revealed it outsources production to India.
Ukip's youth wing said today: "Superdry pouring money made from slave labour into the #PeoplesVote campaign.
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"These corporations will stop at nothing to halt the democratic will of the people in order to line their own pockets."
Leave stalwart Nigel Farage branded it a paid attempt to “destroy democracy”.
Pointing to a Sun poll that showed millions in the country still back Brexit, he urged Mr Dunkerton to “stop trying to trip the country over when we are on course”.
Theresa May’s director of communications Robbie Gibb tweeted: “The country hasn’t changed it’s mind.”
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Pharma boss Hugo Fry, head of French firm Sanofi, warned the UK's medical system could suffer if life-saving drugs are caught up in queues at the border.
That means companies may have to enact emergency plans to avoid a drastic shortage of medicine.
Mr Fry told the Sunday Times Sanofi could strike a deal where all its drugs are flown in to a designated airport where they would undergo less stringent checks.
Currently both Britain and Europe are dependent on the free movement of medical supplies to avoid shortages.
Both sides are keen to strike a deal to avoid endangering their citizens by disrupting those supply lines after Brexit.
In a bid to combat the growing anti-Brexit campaign, Eurosceptic businessmen have launched a fresh bid to convince politicians to respect the result of the original referendum.
A new poll finds that Remain voters are more likely than Leave supporters to have changed their mind since 2016.
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