Claim: 47% of the population don't earn enough money to bring in a wife or husband from outside the EU.
Fact-check: You usually need to earn £18,600 a year to bring a non-EU partner to the UK - Full Fact
Verdict: this is an old estimate for the proportion of british national employees who earned less than the £18,600 threshold. more recent estimates have put this at 41%, and it could be lower today. non-british nationals who are settled in the uk can also bring in a partner if they meet the threshold.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joseph O'Leary
Date published: 2018-04-27T00:00:00