Fact checks looking at the impact and reported impact of brexit on the UK economy
Politics
The big political story today has been a wide-ranging deal between the UK and EU on fishing, defence, passport checks and more. We’re currently looking into a number of claims around this—but the agreement on fishing has grabbed many of the headlines today. Read
A social media post that claimed 26% of the electorate voted to leave the EU in 2016 was corrected after we got in touch. Read
Politics
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson made his first appearance [12:35] in the 2024 general election campaign last night with a little over a day to go before polling opens on … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A now-corrected article in The Guardian fails to make clear that a figure estimating the impact of Brexit on UK tax revenues is based on a counterfactual analysis. Read
Europe
The Prime Minister has made the same incorrect claim several times before. Read
Europe
Claims that the EU forced the UK to adopt the metric system and made the use of imperial measures illegal are not entirely true. Read
Europe
A picture of a chicken from Morrisons has gone viral for packaging stating the salt and pepper used are “non-EU”. Morrisons says this is to comply with legal requirements, not to “make a geopolitical Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Manufacturers can continue to export to Britain, as long as they renew their accreditation by 7 January 2022. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The government estimated its new imports policy will save wine drinkers £130 million. An industry body puts the figure at around £30 million. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
There is other evidence that trade did not fall this much and it may have been driven by stockpiling before January and Covid. Read
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