Brexit
Fact checks looking at the impact and reported impact of brexit on the UK economy
About 1 in 7 German cars are sold in the UK
Germany sells about 14% of all the passenger cars it makes domestically to the UK, a little over one in seven. (That makes up about 18% of the passenger cars …
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False claims, forecasts, and the EU Referendum
Campaigners on both sides of the EU referendum made false claims, or predicted things that turned out to be wrong. Sometimes they made false claims about the false claims made …
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Brexit means... borrowing?
The Office for Budget Responsibility expect the government to have a £21 billion deficit in 2020/21. In March they had predicted an £11 billion surplus.
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Brexit and household incomes
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects national income in 2020/21 to be about £50 billion lower than it would have been, had the UK voted to remain in the …
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The IMF on Brexit
Did the International Monetary Fund get its Brexit predictions wrong?
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Free trade outside the EU customs union
Can the UK be partly in and partly out of the EU customs union?
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Scottish jobs after Brexit
A ‘Hard Brexit’ would see 80,000 fewer jobs in Scotland than EU membership, according to one set of figures.
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"Leaked" analysis: would a Hard Brexit cost £66 billion?
Recent "leaks" about the £38 to £66 billion potential costs of a "Hard Brexit" are based on Treasury analysis that was published in April.
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Brexit and price rises
Brexit has been blamed for a series of price rises, from holidays abroad to military equipment. All are down to a fall in the value of the pound.
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Brexit and the great British pub
It's been suggested that the UK's pubs have been doing a roaring trade on the back of the vote to leave the EU. The figures don't support that theory.
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