We’re all entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts. That’s how the saying goes, but it doesn’t seem that way with Brexit.

Our new polling on perceptions of the impact of Europe on the UK shows how wildly views of the same realities diverge between different groups of the population.

The first thing you notice is how wrong we are about key facts, on average. Large proportions of the public as a whole think that European immigrants take more money out of the system than they pay in taxes, that immigration results in increased crime levels and decreased quality of health services.

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) recently published an independent report, commissioned by the government, that shows each of these is wrong. The best available evidence is that European immigration has a positive, or at worst, neutral impact on our public finances, overall crime rates and the quality of our health services.