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Tim Shipman's column reports the launch of the Stay Out campaign and openly shares the campaigners' view of Andy Burnham's EU plans. The body says the £750 million a week figure is Stay Out's claim and is based on gross contributions. The headline drops both, and states the campaign's figure as The Spectator's own fact.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
Headline goes beyond the article
Serious
“Rejoining the EU would cost £750m a week”
Why this matters
The headline states 'would cost £750m a week' in The Spectator's own voice. It gives no attribution and no sign that the number is a gross figure.
The impression it gives
A reader takes it as an established fact that rejoining would cost Britain £750 million a week.
The context
The body calls the figure a claim made by a new campaign group, Stay Out, to attack Andy Burnham. It also says the figure rests on expected gross budget contributions, not a net cost. The Daily Mail attributes the same figure to the campaign group's own research.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“by hitting Andy Burnham with the claim that going back in would cost Britain £750 million a week”
Elsewhere in the article“based on expected gross budget contributions to Brussels of £39 billion a year”