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EU: Branson’s euro-lust ‘totally out of touch’ says Mills

LABOUR donor and businessman John Mills has criticised Richard Branson’s claim that leaving the EU would be “catastrophic,” branding the Virgin tycoon “completely out of touch.”

The business bust-up came after Mr Branson said on Sunday that Britain’s membership of the “enormous trading bloc” put our economy in a “wonderful situation.”

He even suggested Britain would be better off adopting the euro, claiming: “I think that if we were part of the euro right now our currency would be a lot cheaper.

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