10 of VoteLeave’s half-truths and untruths
Pro-Brexit group’s list of so-called broken promises isn't just false. It's the Leave camp’s own Project Fear
Brexit: 4 things Vote Leave got wrong
While dismissing a “dodgy dossier”, out campaigners made significant errors on how Brexit would work.
What proportion of UK law comes from the EU?
Leave campaigners say more than half. Remain campaigners, 13%. Both are correct, neither is meaningful.
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.
UK doesn’t send EU £350m a week or £55m a day
Eurosceptics trot out these figures. Full Fact, which provided them with cover, has now corrected its error.
Britain isn’t marginalised in EU
Vote Leave has made several factual errors about UK influence in the bloc. It is guilty of doing down Britain.
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.