A decision to leave the EU would be a “disaster” for British workers who would be £38 a week worse off outside the EU by 2030, according to the TUC. Photograph: Rick Findler/PABritain’s manufacturing sector has yet to fully recover from the impact of the financial crisis, with output still below its pre-crisis peak. “Our manufacturing sector, still battered and bruised by the recession, would be hit hard. We’d lose manufacturing jobs that pay £100 a week more than service sector equivalents. “£38 a week may not be much for politicians like [Vote Leave campaigner] Boris Johnson – a man who described his £250,000 fee for a weekly newspaper column as ‘chicken feed’.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2016 22:52 UTC