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The bosses of more than a third of Britain’s top companies on Tuesday urged voters to keep the country in the European Union, warning that a ‘Brexit’ would threaten jobs. Some 198 business leaders including Roger Carr, chairman of BAE Systems, BP CEO Bob Dudley and Ron Dennis, chief of F1 team McLaren, wrote a joint letter published in the Times, backing Prime Minister David Cameron’s deal to reform the EU. “Following the prime minister’s renegotiation, we believe that Britain is better off staying in a reformed European Union,†they wrote.