Image copyright PA Image caption Theresa May says she wants firms to have the “maximum freedom to trade with and operate in the single market”. A major Tory donor has warned that he will stop funding the party if Theresa May"s Brexit plans involve the UK coming out of the single market.
Sir Andrew Cook, who has donated more than £1.2m to the party, told The Times the country could “sleepwalk to disaster” if it made such a move.
The engineering firm chairman said at least one of his factories was almost “entirely dependent” on access to it.
Sir Andrew backed the Remain campaign in the EU referendum.
He told the newspaper that the “economic arguments of staying in the single market are overwhelming” and it would be a “catastrophe” if the country left.
“It 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,” he said.
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