Outers’ e-cigarette outrage all smoke without fire
Farage leads Brexiteers fuming at the EU’s tax plans for vaping. There is no plan, just the early stages of a review.
Leave campaign drug trial argument stuck in past
Brexiteers cite discredited clinical trials law to argue EU is bad for science. They don’t say it’s being replaced.
“Decade of uncertainty” warning rings true
Chris Grayling says it’s ludicrous to claim Brexit could trigger 10 years uncertainty. His case doesn’t stack up.
Carswell downplays Britain’s voice in Brussels
UKIP MP says UK is “represented by one twenty-eighth of a eurocrat” in EU. He undersells our numbers and influence.
Passport buying jihadis figment of IDS imagination
Minister says terrorists could buy EU citizenship and attack London. Is he aware of the checks they’d have to pass?
UK to enforce loan repayments from EU students
EU students never repaying UK loans is a common gripe. New rules could mean less ammunition for Eurosceptics.
More than treaties keep migrants in France
Even if France scrapped Le Touquet treaty post Brexit, asylum-seekers would struggle to reach UK for other reasons.
UKIP delight in Turkish scaremongering
Its party political broadcast suggests Turkey could join the EU in 2020. That’s just one of many fanciful claims.
Vote Leave campaign writes science policy fiction
Brexit group says EU axed science advisor post for being “politically awkward”, but seven new experts replaced it.
Bernard Ingham blunders with EU fraud claim
Thatcher’s former press secretary is just the latest eurosceptic to misunderstand how EU auditing works.
City of London could be carved up post Brexit
That, at least, was a key conclusion of Open Europe’s acrimonious post-Brexit simulation.
Dublin asylum rules reform is not EU blackmail
Eurosceptic claims that Dublin Regulation reforms would ‘bully’ Britain into taking more asylum seekers are premature and make little sense.