UK Economy: Post-Referendum Assessment

David Nuttall Excerpts

Monday 23rd May 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr David Nuttall (Bury North) (Con)]

Given that the independent think-tank Open Europe, which is not taking sides in the referendum debate, has said that it is a mistake to think that short-term forecasts are inevitably more accurate than long-term forecasts, can the Minister tell us, in percentage terms, what the chances are of these forecasts actually being true?

[Mr Gauke]

Of course I hope that none of them turns out to be true, because I hope that the hypothesis of our leaving the European Union is not realised.