Remain campaigners defend Soros cash

AN ANTI-Brexit pressure group says it is not ‘embarrassed’ by the funding it receives from foreign billionaire George Soros.

Best for Britain yesterday launched its formal campaign for a second EU referendum, publishing its roadmap to delivering what it calls a ‘people’s vote’ in 2019.

The group is calling on MPs to force a referendum on the deal secured by Theresa May, with an option on the ballot paper of keeping the UK in the EU. And it is planning a summer campaign to build public support for a second vote.

Lord Malloch-Brown, the group’s chairman, denied the group were ‘puppets of a foreign funder’ because 20 per cent of their income this year came from Hungarian-American Mr Soros.

‘Am I embarrassed to take George Soros’s money? No,’ he said.

‘Like him, I am very proud of a career spent in international human rights, promoting democracy and trying to secure healthy democratic cultures in countries everywhere.’

Lord Malloch-Brown said Mr Soros has ‘deep personal links’ to the UK because he had a home here and was educated here.