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]”.
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.
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