British Tycoons Setting Up Major Campaign for UK Exit From EU

UK entrepreneurs and business tycoons are funding a major campaign to promote Britain’s exit from the European Union, local media reported Sunday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The $32-million campaign called “No Thanks — We're Going Global” is led by millionaire and major donor for UK Independence Party (UKIP) Arron Banks.

“We represent a group of entrepreneurs, businessmen who are very different from the same people who go around the Westminster bubble. We see the need for a public campaign, rather than all the Eurosceptics just talking to eachother,” Banks told The Telegraph.

The campaign will feature sport stars and celebrities as its ambassadors, according to the news outlet.

The Telegraph reported that there were at least seven other anti-EU pressure groups in Britain, some of them trying to get official No campaign status to get access to the public funding.

The news comes as British Prime Minister David Cameron, who vowed to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union before 2017, is scheduled to fly to Brussels next week to negotiate better terms for his country's membership in the 28-nation bloc.

The Conservatives want a flexible relationship with Brussels that will allow London to decide on the amount of taxpayers’ contribution to EU coffers, business regulations, trade relations outside of the union, and migration curbs.