On Tuesday, Richard Branston revealed that his
businesses have lost a third of their value after Brexit, adding that the
decision to leave the EU has cancelled a deal worth 3,000 jobs.
The Virgin founder has called on
Parliament to take a second look at the referendum and believes that those who
voted Leave did not realize ‘what a mess’ the move would cause.
He claimed Brexit campaigners misled
the public over the consequences of leaving and said the UK is ‘heading towards
a disaster’ — insisting people deserve the chance to vote again.
Branston, 65, told ITV’s Good Morning
Britain today: “I don’t believe the public realised what a mess their vote
would cost.”
Speaking to presenters Susanna Reid
and DailyMail.com U.S. Editor-at-Large Piers Morgan about his companies, Branston
added: ‘We’re not any worse than anybody else, but I suspect we've lost a third
of our value which is dreadful for people in the workplace.”
He continued: 'We were about to
do a very big deal, we cancelled that deal, that would have involved 3,000
jobs, and that’s happening all over the country.'
Prime Minister David Cameron’s
spokesman has said that last Thursday’s vote, which produced a 52-48 majority
for Brexit, was ‘decisive’ and that the Government's focus was on delivering on
it.
Branston has already warned that the
Leave vote has ‘opened a Pandora’s Box of negative consequences’ for Britain.
A petition on the parliamentary
website calling for a second referendum has attracted more than 3.9 million
signatures, though it was revealed on Sunday that nearly 80,000 names have been
struck off after being found to be fraudulent.
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