The leave campaign's new "think" tank, Change Britain is at it again. After producing a highly misleading report (HERE) they are now claiming that new trade deals will create 400,000 new jobs.
However, as many people have pointed out (HERE), (HERE) and (HERE), new trade deals are designed to increase both exports and imports so jobs created are usually balanced by jobs lost through importing more stuff. Change Britain ignores any job losses and focuses entirely on new jobs created by additional exports. As several experts have said, the number of jobs created is usually between zero and a negligible number and dismiss the report as "entirely fictional".
This is all very worrying. If the people most in favour of leaving cannot show conclusively without resorting to misleading figures that the UK will be better off what chance do we stand?
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