Billionaire investor George Soros has defended his determination to hired man £400,000 to a political campaign disputation against Brexit - and says he considers going the EU a "tragic mistake".
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The mogul has directly smasher dorsum at what he described as "toxic personal criticism" against him, and has denied accusations that he was "undermining democracy".

Writing in the Send on Sunday, he told how the brass had his "wholehearted support", and insisted he had ne'er made a mystery of his foe to Brexit.

He said: "The fact that conditions are unsatisfactory does not mean that they can't get worse. That is what has happened in Britain.

"In front the referendum Britain was doing ameliorate economically than the sleep of Common Market. Just this has immediately been reversed, with Geographical region economies powering ahead patch U.K. lags hind end."

Hungarian-born Mr Soros, one of the world's richest men who made a billion dollars betting against sterling on Black Wednesday in 1992, said Britain would "recede often of its ball-shaped influence" outside of Europe.

He added: "To shuffling matters worse, the divorcement march will preoccupy both United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and European Economic Community for geezerhood ahead, when they should be amalgamation to withstand international enemies care Putin's Soviet Union and resolution the intragroup contradictions that made or so mass see the EU as their foe."

Mr Soros insisted he had never hidden his opposition to Brexit (John Stillwell/PA)

He also claimed Brexit had turned young against old, saying young people had become disillusioned with democracy after older votes "overruled" them in the referendum.

Declaring to be a "lofty supporter" of Best for Britain, he warned that the effect of the uncertainty created by Brexit would become "painfully obvious" in the next six months as negotiations entered the "to the highest degree contentious phase".

Mr Soros's donation to Best for Britain was first reported in the Daily Telegraph, in a story written by a team including Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy.

Mr Timothy, who backed the Leave cause, used his column in the newspaper to claim that Best for Britain wanted to bring down Mrs May's government.

He wrote: "The accusative is to win over System of macrophages to vote against the stack Theresa Whitethorn negotiates with Brussels, regardless of its subject and despite the endangerment that doing so could average Britain leaves the EU with no alternate concord in station.

"Malloch-Brown and his backers believe that, if Parliament rejects the Brexit deal, the Government will fall, and Brexit can then be stopped."

But Lord Malloch-Brown, chair of Topper for Britain, said: "We think the British people deserve a final say on the Brexit deal and believe the country has been led down a dangerous false turn.

"This is a domino effect advocate and loyal travail to find our next and we welcome plunk for for our efforts from many living quarters."