Red Tape

Boris Johnson says EU passes 2,500 new regulations a year costing Britain £600m a week. He’s wrong.

Maria Caulfield MP says EU “red tape madness” stops farmers reusing egg boxes. But it’s a voluntary UK hygiene rule.

Farage leads Brexiteers fuming at the EU’s tax plans for vaping. There is no plan, just the early stages of a review.

The EU has no ability to introduce the taxes suggested in 2012 by an advisory committee of regional worthies.

The pro-EU case doesn’t rest on the concessions provisionally agreed. These are useful, not revolutionary.

Is the EU really about to ban the beloved custard cream - or is it the eurosceptics who are going crackers?