The government's EU leaflet: introduction

We've done 15 factchecks of the Government's EU leaflet.

The government explicitly states that the leaflet is arguing for the UK remaining in the EU. So it is not attempting to be even-handed.

Given that, much of the leaflet is accurate and the government deserves some credit for ensuring that it was published with details of the sources, making it easier to judge independently.

There are a number of facts and figures that are highly contestable, or where readers are not given information that they would probably want to know, for example: