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Episode: The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership
Description: If the EU referendum debate just involves two politicians shouting contradictory statistics at each other - then we are here to help.
In this series, we're giving you a break from the politicians and we're going to try to figure out the truth. Bracing concept, isn't it? We'll be looking at some of the big questions - immigration, lawmaking, regulations and trade.
But in this first program, Tim Harford tackles two very basic questions: how much would we save if we left the EU? And what would we lose if we did?