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| A story about which sectors of the British economy would suffer most from a radical reduction in EU migration said it was drawn from a study carried out by the Office for National Statistics. This was an editing error: the piece was referring to an analysis of ONS figures carried out by the GMB union (“From translators and fruit pickers to hotel workers – key EU migrants we rely on to keep the economy going”, News, last week, page 9). | A story about which sectors of the British economy would suffer most from a radical reduction in EU migration said it was drawn from a study carried out by the Office for National Statistics. This was an editing error: the piece was referring to an analysis of ONS figures carried out by the GMB union (“From translators and fruit pickers to hotel workers – key EU migrants we rely on to keep the economy going”, News, last week, page 9). |
| “Labour used to be the party that grasped the folly of leaving” (Business, last week, page 41) quoted Margaret Thatcher after the two-to-one vote in favour of Remain in 1975, paying tribute to Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, and said she “should also have praised Edward Heath”. In fact she did: immediately before her Commons tributes to Churchill and Macmillan she said: “All of us on this side of the House, and many on the other, would wish to hand the campaign honours to my right honourable friend the Member for Sidcup [Edward Heath]”. | “Labour used to be the party that grasped the folly of leaving” (Business, last week, page 41) quoted Margaret Thatcher after the two-to-one vote in favour of Remain in 1975, paying tribute to Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, and said she “should also have praised Edward Heath”. In fact she did: immediately before her Commons tributes to Churchill and Macmillan she said: “All of us on this side of the House, and many on the other, would wish to hand the campaign honours to my right honourable friend the Member for Sidcup [Edward Heath]”. |
| In our Speedy crossword (last week, page 47)“pence” was given as the answer to the clue: “Lowest denomination of British currency”. Pence is plural; the singular is penny. | In our Speedy crossword (last week, page 47)“pence” was given as the answer to the clue: “Lowest denomination of British currency”. Pence is plural; the singular is penny. |
| Write to Stephen Pritchard, Readers’ Editor, the Observer, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk telephone 020-3353 4656 | Write to Stephen Pritchard, Readers’ Editor, the Observer, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk telephone 020-3353 4656 |
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