Loading ...Chance of halting Brexit now close to 50:50, says leading campaigner
LONDON (Reuters) – Opponents of Britain’s exit from the European Union are preparing a major campaign they say now has close to a 50:50 chance of stopping Brexit by blocking Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal, a leading pro-EU campaigner said.
With Britain scheduled to leave the EU in March 2019, opponents of Brexit are exploring various ways to stop what they say is Britain’s biggest mistake since World War Two.
‘Best for Britain’, a campaign group which received a 400,000 pound donation from billionaire financier George Soros last year, hopes to convince lawmakers in the 650-seat parliament to block the withdrawal deal May aims to bring back from Brussels in October.
“Brexit can be stopped if people want it to be stopped,” the group’s chief executive officer, Eloise Todd, told Reuters in the basement of a former Victorian bakery in central London. “It is absolutely not over yet.”