Can you spot a Tory election lie?<\/p>\n
Experts have blasted a Conservative Party claim that maintaining freedom of movement would cost the UK millions of pounds.<\/p>\n
Writing on Twitter, university academics have contradicted a Tory claim that Corbyns plan to continue free movement with EU countries would cost the Department of Work and Pensions over 4 billion in extra benefit costs over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics at Kings College London said the Tory claims were economically and statistically illiterate. <\/p>\n
He said: The governments own analysis shows that EU migrants contribute much more than they claim in benefits and that reducing EU migration means higher taxes or lower public spending.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Steve Peers, Professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex said:<\/p>\n
Were back to Vote Leave style misleading and xenophobic claims about EU27 citizens and benefits.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, we reported that Vote Leave director and Johnson enforcer Dominic Cummings was encouraging Tory activists to hammer a xenophobic, anti-immigration line on the doorstep. <\/p>\n
Join the fightback against this scaremongering.<\/p>\n
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