Claim: There are 1.5 million British people employed in businesses owned by EU citizens in the UK.
Fact-check: UK jobs and EU-owned businesses - Full Fact
Verdict: in 2014, about 1.6 million people were employed by businesses that were eu-owned, or by businesses whose parent company was eu-owned. we don't know how many of these employees were british.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2016-10-07T00:00:00