The BSE [Britain Stronger in Europe] campaign was found out yesterday for
using ‘dishonest’ figures, selective quotations and ludicrous claims about trade
and jobs. Appearing before a committee of MPs, Lord Rose and Will Straw,
chairman and chief executive of BSE, admitted that many of the key statistics
used in their campaign are not based on facts.
Will Straw blew a hole in their core campaign message by acknowledging that
‘all the trading would go on’ after we leave the EU, and that the claims of an
£11 billion rise in prices were ‘entirely speculative’. Crucially, he admitted
that the renegotiation would do nothing to change the powers of the EU
courts.
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