Senior British business figures have exerted further pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to reconsider hard Brexit under which the UK will lose its preferential access to the EU’s single market and suffer from soured relations with other EU members.
May called for an early election in mid-April to get a “stronger hand” in Brexit negotiations with the European Union (EU), but instead cost her party the overall majority in Parliament.
She is currently desperately trying to reach an agreement with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party to form a minority government.
There are now fresh warnings of the impact of immigration controls and leaving the single market.
The Tory peer and chairman of online grocer Ocado, Stuart Rose (pictured below), who supported Remain, said the election had been a “proxy re-referendum” against hard Brexit.
Also, the founder of Cobra beer and Remain backer, Karan Bilimoria (pictured below), said May had…