GETTY Nigel Farage says Britons will be £40 better off a week if we leave the EU

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The UKIP leader also claimed the UK would be boosted by being free to make its own trade deals and he rubbished a report claiming Brexit will cost the average worker a month’s salary. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Mr Farage locked horns with host Nick Robinson over the upcoming EU referendum. Discussing the OECD’s report which claims leaving Brussels will cost the average Briton one month’s salary by 2020, Mr Farage said: “The IMF, the OECD, there are whole series of international organisations that are stuffed with people that failed in politics.

Outside the EU the average British family will be £40 better off Nigel Farage

“I'm in Cardiff University and Partrick Minford, the professor of economics said outside the EU the average British family will be £40 better off. “These international bodies have nobody working for anyone who’s manufactured a good or traded a product globally, which is what I did for 20 years before I entered politics. “Whether in or out we will go on buying and selling goods between France, Germany, Britain and Italy as ultimately this is about consumers making choices. “If Norway and Switzerland can get their own deals then we can get bespoke British deals for us.”

GETTY The Economists for Brexit group say leaving the EU would cut prices by 8% for the average consumer

A panel of economists led by Professor Minford, who was an economic adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, have formed the Economists for Brexit group. Professor Minford believes leaving would cut prices by about eight per cent for the average consumer as well as cutting the number of unemployed benefit claimants. Speaking ahead of the group’s launch he said: “Each of the economists in the group independently came to the conclusion that Britain would be economically better off outside Europe and have come together, as we feel the public is crying out for evidence-based arguments on the economic benefits of an EU exit.” Mr Farage, in a quick-fire interview, added the eurosceptics must start challenging the Remain campaign ahead of the June referendum.

GETTY UKIP's Nigel Farage claimed the UK would be boosted by being free to make its own trade deals

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