Brexit – The Key Claims Analyzed

 
By Sarah Chappell

This article looks to separate fact from fiction – reality from rhetoric – in some of the most polarizing arguments being put forward by ‘Brexiters’ and ‘Bremainers’ in the lead-up to the UK Referendum on EU membership on 23 June. 

Peace and security.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the UK “turning its back” on the EU would increase the risk of war in Europe and has warned that ISIL would be “happy” with a Brexit vote.

Former London mayor Boris Johnson, one of the leading Brexit, has argued that the UK would be better able to safeguard its security if it left the EU, calling Brussels’ “anti-democratic tendencies” a force for “instability and alienation”.

So, is the UK safer in – or safer out?  

Euronews put the question to Hans Pung, President of RAND Europe, an international, not-for-profit public policy research organisation that has taken an impartial position on the referendum.  

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Source: euronews.