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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 would cause a reduction in UK wages'

The Trade Union Congress found that UK wages would drop by £38 per week in the long term if the country left the EU, according to its General Secretary Frances O'Grady.

As with so many of these economic analyses, the specific figure is eye-catching but impossibly precise, according to fact-checking organisation Full Fact, analysing the live BBC referendum debate.

The TUC based this prediction directly on the economic forecasts of four economic institutions. So if you trust the economic models that produced this forecast, you might trust this result.

They took the expected reduction in economic growth and assumed that the expected growth in average wages would be reduced by the same amount.

Looking at averages isn’t always useful. The figure doesn’t tell you how a vote to leave the EU would affect wages in different industries or different regions.

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