Superdry founder donates £1m for second vote on EU
BRITAIN is more committed to Brexit than at the time of the referendum, Downing Street has said after the founder of Superdry, the clothing firm, donated £1million to the campaign for a second vote on leaving the European Union.
Julian Dunkerton, the co-founder of Superdry, said that he was making the donation to the “People’s Vote” campaign because he saw a “genuine chance to turn this around”.
However, Downing Street highlighted a poll in The Sun on Sunday which found that 15 per cent of Remainers have changed their minds, compared to 11 per cent on leavers.
Robbie Gibb, No10’s director of communications, said: “1.9 million Leave voters say they would now vote to Remain. But 2.4 million Remain voters would now vote to Leave. The country hasn’t changed its mind.”
Theresa May has repeatedly ruled out a second referendum on Brexit, but there is growing support among Remain-backing Tory and Labour MPS. Mr Dunkerton, who left Superdry earlier this year, told The Observer: “If Brexit had happened 20 years earlier, Superdry would never have become the global success that it did.
“We would have struggled to cope with negotiating customs and tariffs.
“Perhaps even more importantly, Europe was our staging post because inside the single market we had no fear of opening a store in France, Germany, Belgium or anywhere else.
Andrew Bridgen, a Eurosceptic Tory MP, told BBC News: “People’s Vote talk about democracy [but] their declared intent is to overturn the democratic decision of the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union.”