MBK emailed in this from The Times:
The row centres on the sample used by YouGov, which Vote Leave claims was “wholly unrepresentative” of Britain’s 5.2 million companies.
For example, only 20.5 per cent of the respondents had fewer than 50 employees, despite the fact that 99.2 per cent of British businesses employ fewer than 50 people.
Vote Leave also claims that only 22 per cent of the businesses surveyed had a turnover of less than £5 million. The average turnover of private businesses is £673,000.
The CBI is understood to have selected the sample for YouGov from its membership list. In total, 451 of the members selected responded.
All of which seems very likely to me, if you pay attention to these things, you'll find that the larger the corporation, the more pre-EU it is and vice versa. The CBI is the worst of the lot.
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