What, no facts in the EU debate? You cannot be serious | Martin Kettle

It feels as if the enlightenment is at stake. Thank goodness historians are standing up for reason

If there is one thing that Britain’s European Union debate has plenty of, it is facts. Hardly a day passes without a weighty, for the most part decently researched, report from a generally reliable source crammed with facts about the impact of a possible Brexit on everything from migration to the price of milk.

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