The chairman of a British steel company, who received a knighthood in David Cameron\u2019s resignation honors list, has previously given Theresa May’s party more than \u00a31.2 million ($1,475,000), according to the Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Now he is saying he \u201cwould find it impossible<\/em>\u201d to keep donating to the party should the prime minister endorse the move that will see the UK exit the EU’s single market.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is very difficult to make a political donation to a party when, although I support it ideologically, I do not believe that my interests and my ideology are ad idem with the principal Brexiteers<\/em>,\u201d Sir Andrew\u00a0told<\/a>the Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n The chairman of steel engineering company William Cook Group, which makes components for railway and defense industries, said losing access to the European market \u201cwill be a catastrophe<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Stating that arguments for single-market membership are \u201coverwhelming<\/em>,\u201d he added that the other option is \u201cthe political tail… wagging the economic dog<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: Economist admits BoE\u2019s Brexit financial collapse warnings were \u2018a misjudgement\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Earlier this week, another key Tory sponsor said he was experiencing \u201cdonor fatigue<\/em>,\u201d the Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n A number of businesspeople in Britain have been calling for a \u201csoft Brexit,\u201d which would allow the country to keep its single-market membership in return for a compromise over free movement of citizens, demanded by EU leaders. But a number of Tory MPs have been on the \u201chard Brexit\u201d side, saying Britain would not take a softer approach to migrant policies, and would be willing to sacrifice both the single market and EU customs union membership.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Labour divided over Brexit following Keir Starmer remarks on free movement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sir Andrew, who acted as the treasurer of the ConservativesIN campaign, and sponsored it with over \u00a3300,000 ($369,000), has dubbed the OUT campaign as \u201cpopulist and xenophobic<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n There are \u201cEU citizens, with skills<\/em>\u201d working at his plants, the magnate said. They are \u201ccoming here to fill jobs that British people are either unable to do or don’t want to do<\/em>,\u201d he told BBC Radio 4, as quoted by the Evening Standard<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cSome people [in Westminster] will take me into account, others will not<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tories may lose support from one of their major donors, steel magnate Andrew Cook. He warned UK Prime Minister Theresa May that he would cut his donations if Britain withdraws from the EU single market \u2013 a move he called a \u201ccatastrophe.\u201d The chairman of a British steel company, who received a knighthood in David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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