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22 11, 2016

#120: It’s official – the cost of the EU to the UK rose 2015

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Top Lines: Latest balance of payment figures for 2015 now available from the 2016 Pink Book. The Vote Leave claim of EU costing £350M a week during the referendum campaign was wrong – official figures now show it was an underestimate. In 2015, the UK gross contribution to EU institutions was £19.6 bn, equivalent to £377M a [...]

28 10, 2016

#119: The shrinking EU market for UK exports

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Top line: UK exports outside the EU are 37% greater than UK exports to the EU In the last ten years, UK exports outside the EU grew. In the last ten years, UK exports to the rest of the EU shrank. In 2015, the value of UK exports to the rest of the World (RoW) [...]

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