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Leak reveals CBI’s campaigning for EU membership

BIG-BUSINESS lobbying group the CBI was embarrassed yesterday by a leak of secret documents about its campaign to keep Britain in the European Union.

Minutes marked “confidential” from a meeting of the CBI president’s committee held in July were revealed by the Vote Leave campaign.

The CBI has publicly claimed that it will back neither the In nor Out campaigns in the forthcoming referendum on EU membership.

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