In October 2016, David Davis, the then Brexit secretary, told the House of Commons that “there will be no downside to Brexit at all, and considerable upsides”. / On this page we list the ‘considerable upsides’ and also the downsides...
(Includes explanations as given by the vendors themselves.)
Boris Johnson was asked on the BBC's Andrew Marr show how "ordinary voters" in a place such as Leigh in Greater Manchester (which voted Conservative in the 2019 election) would benefit from Brexit.
Michael Gove criticised for wrongly claiming EHIC and Erasmus will survive ‘for a period’ after no-deal Brexit
09/12/2020
‘It’s astonishing that the man in charge of our Brexit policy should completely mislead the public on two major issues of concern’
The border has dominated Irish thoughts on Brexit. Amid the political tensions, several English voices have called for Ireland's dependence on UK trade to be used as leverage in negotiations. Are they right?
Digby Jones made the claim on Twitter at the weekend when discussing the impact of a no deal Brexit.
£1.5bn GDP boost from UK-Japan trade deal is not on top of existing EU-Japan deal benefits
15/09/2020
These estimated benefits are relative to 2018 when the UK (as part of the EU) had no FTA with Japan.
Most of our trade (57% of exports and 66% of imports in 2016) is with countries we have EU trade agreements with, not under WTO rules.
Is the EU ‘pinching our fish’? - FullFact
21/06/2016
"[The EU is] Pinching our fish" - Boris Johnson quoted in The Telegraph, 16 June 2016
This note provides some basic statistics on the UK's trade with the EU.
It is not true that the EU failed to help the UK in the Falklands War, or that it sent weapons to Argentina during the conflict.
THE CLAIM: "Any country joining the European Union must have a fiscal deficit at 3% or below. With the Scottish deficit at almost 8% the SNP must outline how Scotland could join the European Union as an independent country."
Recently, a claim about supposed plans for an ‘EU army’ has been shared on Facebook.