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Remain and Leave clash in final EU referendum debate

Remain and Leave campaigners have clashed at the final major EU referendum debate before polls open on Thursday.

The BBC debate took place in front of 6,000 people at Wembley Arena.

Participants included Boris Johnson for Leave, and his successor as Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, who is backing Remain.

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Fact check: 'Brexit means additional £10 billion for public services'

The UK would have an additional £10 billion at its disposal to spend on public services if it left the EU, according to Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom.

That is indeed in the ballpark of what we pay towards the EU budget annually - £8.5 billion in 2015 - although it doesn’t take into account several billion pounds that comes back in EU spending in the UK.

It is fair to say that spending doesn’t necessarily go on "our priorities" though, according to fact-checking organisation Full Fact, analysing the live BBC referendum debate.

But overall, most economists think that public finances would lose out if the UK left the EU.

The consensus is that the hit to the economy, and the resulting drop in tax receipts and rise in welfare spending, would more than wipe out the membership fee saving.

Three leading independent economic institutions have recently repeated that it’s “almost certainly untrue” that the UK would have £10 billion for public services if it left.

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