The ‘People’s Vote’ campaign’s latest struggle with the truth

Given how Remainers have lost no opportunity to accuse the official Leave campaign of telling porkies about how much money we send to the EU – £350 million per week according to Vote Leave but closer to a net £250 million once the UK rebate is taken into account – one might imagine that the ‘People’s Vote’ campaign would take extra special care over statements relating to financial contributions to the EU. But it seems not. It has been caught out doctoring a report written by an outside expert, leading to inaccurate claims about how EFTA members’ contributions to the EU are spent.

Yesterday, ‘People’s Vote’ published a report entitled ‘Why Norway Plus Won’t Work’, with a foreword by David Miliband and Jo Johnson. The report sets out to try to debunk the growing suggestion that the Brexit crisis could be resolved by Britain joining – or rather re-joining, since we were members prior to 1973 – the European Free Trade Association ‘EFTA’.