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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: 'EU bureaucrats do not account for themselves fiscally'

A vote for Brexit means "taking back control" from unelected unaccountable bureaucrats who do not represent Britain - and don’t account for themselves fiscally - according to Conservative MP Priti Patel.

This mildly cryptic remark refers to the claim we often hear: the EU’s budget hasn’t been signed off by auditors for years, fact-checking organisation Full Full explain.

Both sides have a point. The EU’s Court of Auditors regularly “signs off”—in its own words—the reliability of the accounts themselves, and has given them a clean bill of health for the last eight years.

But it has found significant errors in how the money is paid out consistently since it began giving opinions in 1995.

Ultimately, it depends on what you think the term “signed off” implies about the accounts.

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