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Is only 13% of the UK economy and only 8% of its businesses involved with european Union trade?
CAPX recently published a pro-Brexit opinion piece by John Longworth who headed a pro-Brexit pressure group. He argued that the UK were being held to ransom and were being treated like a "vassal ...
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Does the UK provide 50% of EU's waters? And does this imply anything about fishing rights?
Leading Brexiteer Owen Paterson wrote in an article in the Telegraph about fisheries:
At present, the UK provides 50 per cent of the EU’s waters but receives only a 25 per cent share of the Total ...
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Did Britain borrow $120 billion in 1945?
This copy-paste has being doing the rounds of local newspaper letters pages and dodgy hard-core pro-Brexit Facebook pages, etc:
JEAN Claude Juncker should be forced to walk past every white ...
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Has freedom of movement of people lead to a reduction in wages and worsening of working conditions in the UK?
Has freedom of movement of people lead to a reduction of wages, and a worsening of working conditions, in the UK?
From 'If you've got money, you vote in ... if you haven't got money, you vote out'
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Has immigration from Eastern Europe impacted UK youth unemployment?
MigrationWatch UK is a think-tank that argues for lower immigration levels into the UK.
In a 2012 Briefing Paper they claimed:
Youth unemployment in the UK increased by almost 450,000 in the
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