Is Britain really inching back towards the EU? Kevin Craven, chief executive of ADS Group, a UK trade association that represents aerospace, defence and security firms, is among them. If the UK strikes a security partnership with the EU, then British weapons manufacturers could potentially access some of that cash. "If you were, for example, aligning UK and EU rules on industrial products, you'd get a much bigger economic impact". "I am worried about our prime minister, with that baggage, with those preconceived ideas, […] trying to negotiate a better deal with the EU."