EU Referendum: A1 Flues joins Leave campaign

The Business for Britain campaign in the East Midlands has a new champion – Notts-based A1 Flues.

The firm says it backs the campaign and is hosting an event to galvanise business support for the campaign.

A1 Flue Systems employs 140 people and is a market leader in the design, manufacture and installation of commercial and industrial chimney, flue and exhaust systems.

TJ Duncan-Moir from A1 Flue Systems said: “British manufacturing is the best in the world and A1 would like to leave the EU so that the UK can revert back to British Standards – which are a guarantee of quality that is understood around the world.

“The current EU standards that we conform to are full of ambiguity and, in our opinion, allow for inferior products to slip through the net. We would love to see a revival of the British Kitemark because everyone knew what to look for and what it stood for as a powerful symbol of the world-beating quality of British manufacturing.”

In the final countdown before the EU Referendum on 23 June 2016, Business for Britain East Midlands will be talking to local businesses from across the East Midlands in a final push to make the business case for Britain to leave the EU.

Nigel Baxter, who is regional chairman of Business for Britain East Midlands, and owner of RH Commercial Vehicles believes many SMEs want to see a fundamental change in the UK’s relationship with the EU and that too much control over the British economy has been given away to EU politicians. According to Business for Britain, the East Midlands sends £1.05 billion to the EU every year.

He said: “When we take back control over our economy, businesses like mine will be able to create new jobs and opportunities for young people, and increase prosperity to the local area.

“Britain will be free to make its own laws and not be held back by Brussels bureaucracy. We’ll also be free to build new trade links with the rest of the world beyond Europe, to the fastest growing economies such as India and China with whom the EU currently has no trade deal.”