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The Labour MP referenced a petition to stop a second Brexit vote and insisted that now it has got over 100,000 signatures it must be debated in Parliament. But Ms Hoey also said it was “interesting” that Brexiteers are “beginning to fight back” against Remainers. Speaking to Express.co.uk following a Labour Leave event in November, Ms Hoey said: “You know, we don’t have the money that the Remain campaign has. There have been huge amounts of particularly foreign money coming in to help the Remain campaign. And we have seen that with the placards and the cards and the letters that are being written and the way that they have spent huge amounts of money.
“We have the strength of people and that is more important than money.”
Multi-millionaire Julian Dunkerton, who is one of the co-founders of clothing label Superdry, announced in August that he had donated £1million to the People’s Vote campaign.
In an article for The Sunday Times online, Mr Dunkerton, 53, who stepped down as the company’s CEO three years ago but remains its largest shareholder, said if Brexit had happened 20 years earlier “Superdry would never have become the global success that it is”.
He wrote: “Until Brexit raised its head, people were looking enviously at our country. The whole of Europe was saying it wanted to learn from us. Now we’re close to throwing away this amazing opportunity.
“I’m putting some of my money behind the People’s Vote campaign because I know we have a genuine chance to turn this around.
“It’s becoming clear there is no vision for Brexit and the politicians have made a mess of it.
“Increasingly, the public knows that Brexit is going to be a disaster.”
Billionaire financier George Soros has also backed another of the most prominent anti-Brexit campaigns.
The Hungarian-born billionaire, who made much of his fortune by betting against sterling on 1992’s Black Wednesday, donated over £400,000 to the Remainer campaign Best for Britain.
The comments come as than 100,000 people sign an online Government petition to stop a second Brexit vote and “ensure democracy rules”.
The petition was launched by Ronald Mitchell after 700,000 people took to London’s streets demanding a “People’s Vote”.
Prominent Remainers including the likes of former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and Tory MP Anna Soubry have repeatedly pleaded for Britain to have a so-called people’s vote on the final Brexit deal.
The petition to stop a vote, which at the time of writing has been signed by 116,654 people, has now reached the threshold for a parliamentary debate.
The petition reads: “Although not legally binding the referendum on whether we stay or leave the EU carried out on the 23rd June 2016 was the clearest indicator of the will of the electorate.
“At that time our Prime Minister David Cameron badured us that the result of the referendum would be carried out.
“We must ensure democracy rules.”
Breaching the 100,000 threshold does not automatically mean a debate will take place but it does force Parliament to consider a debate.
Prime Minister Theresa May has repeatedly said Britain will not have another Brexit referendum “under any circumstances”.
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