Three-quarters of British people don’t know how many countries are in the EU

And 61% told The Independent's ComRes poll that most British laws have to be approved by the European Parliament, which is not the case

Presented with the statement, “There are 29 countries in the EU,” 73 per cent said it was true, and 27 per cent said it was false. There are in fact 28 countries in the EU, and have been since Croatia joined in 2013.

Here is the full list. Statements in green are true, statements in red are false:

ComRes interviewed 2,043 GB adults online on 11 and 12 May 2016. Full tables on the ComRes website.

Of the nine statements, a majority of the public correctly identified six of them and got three of them wrong.

Apart from the number of member countries, 61 per cent thought that “most British laws have to be approved by the European Parliament”. This is not the case. The European Parliament has a role in most European law, some of which then has to be implemented in UK law, but that is a small minority of UK legislation. British law also has to be compatible with European law, but that is a matter between the British Government, the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, not the European Parliament.

The other statement most people got wrong is: “The EU has an official anthem.” This was thought to be false by 70 per cent of respondents. In fact, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” was adopted by EU leaders as the official anthem of the European Union in 1985. According to the EU’s website, “There are no words to the anthem; it consists of music only. In the universal language of music, this anthem expresses the European ideals of freedom, peace and solidarity.”