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The Daily Mail calls a campaign group's figure the 'predicted' UK membership bill without saying in that sentence who made the prediction, and states Stay Out's asylum estimate without attribution in the sentence. It calls small boat arrivals 'arriving illegally' in its own voice, a label the Home Office uses, and it calls one Labour MP's warning 'dire warnings'.
States one side's claim as fact
Minor
“predicted to be the UK's weekly membership bill”
Why this matters
The Mail writes "predicted to be" with no one doing the predicting, so a campaign group's projection reads as a neutral forecast.
The impression it gives
That an independent or official forecast puts the UK's membership bill at £750 million a week.
The context
The Mail's own S22 shows the figure comes from Stay Out, the campaign set up to fight the reset, and gives it as £756 million a week.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“Stay Out has suggested that annual payments by Britain”
“Britain's share would be 4,444 people a year”
Why this matters
The Mail states in its own voice, with no attribution, the number of asylum seekers Britain would take under a scheme it would only join if it rejoined the EU.
The impression it gives
That 4,444 a year is an established obligation.
The context
S3 calls this something pro-Brexit campaigners "suggest", and S14 attributes the scheme argument to Stay Out. It is a campaign group's estimate for a hypothetical rejoining.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“pro-Brexit campaigners suggest the UK could be forced”
Elsewhere in the article“set up by former Vote Leave supporters to resist”
Uses a loaded word
Minor
“arriving illegally”
Why this matters
In its own voice the Mail calls people who cross on small boats to claim asylum people "arriving illegally".
The impression it gives
That everyone arriving by small boat is breaking the law.
The context
That label is the Home Office's. Our editorial describes these as what the Home Office "calls illegal entry routes" and notes that Article 31 of the Refugee Convention protects some refugees who arrive this way.