Members of the 'Remain' and 'Leave' camps have clashed in the ITV Referendum Debate, with accusations of lying and scaremongering thrown back and forth ahead of the vote in two weeks time.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, Angela Eagle and Amber Rudd appeared on behalf of Vote Remain. Former London Mayor Boris Johnson, Andrea Leadsom and Gisela Stuart represented Vote Leave.
Around three million British jobs are linked to exports to and trade with the European Union, Angela Eagle said.
Estimates suggest this is roughly accurate, according to fact-checking organisation Fact Check, working with ITV News.
But, this isn't the same as being dependent on membership of the EU.
We don’t know how these exports, and so the associated jobs, would be affected if the UK were no longer an EU member. That depends on the trading and other economic arrangements made in negotiations after a vote to leave.
Recent minutes from the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England warn that some jobs might be lost, at least in the short term. That’s in line with what seems to be the view of most other economists who’ve said that leaving the EU would come at some cost to the economy.
This could mean unemployment rises by up to 1.7% in the short term, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, if you accept the assumptions made in their modelling. That’s in the region of 30,000 people, about the same number who are estimated to have entered work in the last few months.
Nobody is saying that three million jobs would be lost.
Campaigners for remaining in and leaving the EU have clashed in a fiery debate on ITV.
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