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EU Referendum: economic message lost on voters

23 June 2016

By the end of the campaign, the heads of Britain's most respected economic think-tanks issued a joint statement, so worried were they that the message had failed to connect. Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Jagjit Chadha, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and John van Reenen, head of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said Brexit would ''almost certainly make us financially worse off compared with staying in the EU, quite possibly by a substantial amount''.

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