Vote Leave

I’ve now spent the last three weeks fact-checking every detail on Brexit that I possibly could.

I’ve read 90-page government reports on my way to a wedding. I’ve hacked through academic analyses of the EU when I really should have been…

A friend of mine asked me to look into George Osbourne and the Treasury’s claim that 820,000 jobs could be lost in Brexit, which he described as “blatant lies”. It does sound like a pretty extreme claim — so does it pass a fact check?

OK, let’s start at the beginning: Leave’s front page at http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/campaign

In amidst the rhetoric, they make one fact-checkable claim: that we send £350m to Brussels every week: