Skip to content

Subscriber Only

Osborne Urges Businesses to Speak Out Over Brexit Concerns

‘Not the moment for businesses to sit it out,’ chancellor says
Plea comes as polls show EU referendum remains on a knife-edge

Bloomberg business news — Osborne: Confident Britain Will Vote to Remain in EU

By

Simon Kennedy and Svenja O'Donnell

June 13, 2016, 11:36 AM UTCUpdated onJune 13, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne called for pro-European Union businesses to speak up about their concerns as polls suggest momentum is building for a vote to leave the bloc.

Brexit Watch: The pound, the polls, and the probability of Brexit, all in one place