Before the referendum, the then-Chancellor George Osborne
said that “across Britain as many as 820,000 jobs could be lost.” He was quoting
Treasury analysis which said that the number of unemployed people would increase
by that number in the two years following a vote to leave.
That’s
not the same as the number of jobs as one person can have more than one job.
The Treasury analysis estimated that under different scenarios following a vote to leave between 520,000 (in a “shock scenario”) and 820,000 (in a “severe shock scenario”)
more people would be unemployed by June 2018.