Gary Gibbon
Sturgeon calls for indy vote 2018/19
Nicola Sturgeon has pressed the button. Scotland’s First Minister wants a second independence referendum potentially as early as next Autumn.
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck Q&A: What does Theresa May’s Brexit statement mean for the UK?
The headline is that we will be pulling out of the EU’s Single Market and will not remain a full member of the Customs Union either.
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FactCheck: Britain’s “50bn exit bill” from the EU
Another week, another warning that UK taxpayers could be left paying into the EU for years after Brexit.
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Jon Snow
Brexit: A costly pick-and-mix deal?
Brexit might be heading for a costly pick and mix deal, perhaps denuded of the power to influence either the EU or, perhaps even more critically, the WTO
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Gary Gibbon
May EU strategy: we may know little more for months
Some EU figures don’t expect to see much more of Theresa May’s hand than is already known even when the Article 50 moment comes.
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Tom Clarke
Arctic Circle: explore in 360
On average, the world is now about one degree warmer than it was in pre-industrial times. But the Arctic has warmed twice as fast.
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Gary Gibbon
Juncker on Brexit: forget a la carte single market access
A slap-down for Theresa May’s ambitions for a bespoke Brexit deal? European Commission President Juncker today ruled out “a la carte access to the Single Market”.
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FactCheck: does immigration drive down wages?
Boris admits he hasn’t read a study he quotes to attack the EU on immigration and wages. But could he have a point anyway?
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FactCheck: Does health tourism cost the NHS billions?
The claim VoteLeave says UK gives £5.8bn more to EU countries for medical costs than it gets back, which campaigners say means “health tourism from the EU has cost us billions”. VoteLeave Chair and Labour MP, Gisela Stuart, April, 2016 Does the UK lose £723m a year caring for migrants in the NHS? According to Vote…
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FactCheck: Express goes bananas over EU
Straight bananas, anyone? A kilo of eggs? The newspapers are still having fun with tales of “barmy” Brussels regulations. Most of them are untrue.
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FactCheck: everything you need to know about EU immigration
Claims about EU migration are coming thick and fast. Here’s what you need to know…
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Is the IFS funded by the European Commission?
The proportion of funding the IFS gets from the EU has increased in recent years – from 5.9% of funding in 2009 to 11% in 2014.
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FactCheck: will Brexit lead to mass deportations?
Leave campaigners say Brits who live in EU countries will have the same rights even if the UK pulls out. What do the experts say?
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FactCheck: do we really send £350m a week to Brussels?
Leave campaigners say Britain is sending £350m a week to Brussels as the price of EU membership. Fact or fiction?
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Do we really send £350m a week to Brussels?
Numerous Brexit campaigners say EU membership costs the country £350m a week. We’ve FactChecked this claim before and found it wanting. And now the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has made an important new intervention.
