This week a report by Britain’s biggest business organisation, the CBI, found that every year each person in the UK benefits to the tune of £1225 from EU membership, compared to an annual contribution to the EU budget of just £116. That is undeniably a good deal. Meanwhile, a recent poll has found that 6% of businesses in the UK say they would close if we left the EU. That could mean up to 4286 closing in the East Midlands and 114,200 jobs being lost.

Put simply, it’s in Europe, in work. Pulling out of the EU would risk throwing our recovery away and putting thousands of jobs at risk. Liberal Democrats, as the party of In, are focused on helping businesses create more jobs in the UK by reforming the EU from within. We’ve already helped deliver one million new jobs since 2010, now we want to deliver one million more.

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