PwC reports £500m new investment from banks

Around 20 banks and finance companies are planning to invest up to half a billion pounds in the UK following the EU referendum.

PricewaterhouseCoopers - one of the Remain campaign's corporate backers - says that £200m of investment has already been confirmed by a mixture of UK, European and non-EU companies with another £300m in their business plans.

Before the referendum PwC were spinning economic meltdown for the government.

He who pays the piper calls the tune

Lobbyist	EU Funding
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)	£34,780,648
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)	£23,198,670
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	£14,919,492
London School of Economics (LSE)	£13,933,746
Friends of the Earth	£13,006,209
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)	£12,392,039
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)	£5,624,925
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)	£1,026,594
National Union of Students (NUS)	£583,088
Trades Union Congress (TUC)	£580,259
Standard & Poors (S&P)	£566,362
General, Municipal & Boilermakers Union (GMB)	£283,448
UNITE the Union	£217,206
Unison	£143,563
International Monetary Fund (IMF)	£127,789
National Farmers Union (NFU)	£101,723
Commercial Workers Union (CWU)	£19,074
EU funding in the last nine years