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British corporate leaders will likely vote for the U.K. to remain a part of the European Union, according to lobby groups for business, manufacturing and financial services.
The Institute of Directors said the deal reached by Prime Minister David Cameron and EU leaders is sufficient for more than 600 of its members to vote to stay in the bloc. Manufacturing group EEF said six in 10 of its members want to remain, based on a poll before the negotiations in Brussels were concluded. The contents of the agreement would do little or have no bearing in changing that view, the EEF said.