Among its many mistakes was the claim that during this time the EU produced 46,699 new laws, not realising that a huge number of these were shortlived and are no longer in force. As older hands at this game have been pointing out, the total number of EU laws currently in force is 22,398, many of which do not apply to Britain. But the complete number of laws of all kinds currently on the UK legal database is 75,820. As I have discussed here before, it is so hard to work out any meaningful percentage from these figures that all that can be fairly said about the matter is that a great deal of our law now comes to us via the EU but quite how much it is impossible to quantify.