Soros-backed campaign to push for new Brexit vote within a year
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels and Richard Partington i from on (#3R77P)
Billionaire says holding fresh referendum soon could save UK from 'immense damage'
A campaign to secure a second Brexit referendum within a year and save the UK from "immense damage" is to be launched in days, the philanthropist and financier George Soros has announced.
The billionaire founder of the Open Society Foundation said the prospect of the UK's prolonged divorce from Brussels could help persuade the British public by a "convincing margin" that EU membership was in their interests.
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