Hello, Boris, what happened to your £350m NHS promise?
Johnson is fronting a new Brexit group that wriggles out of campaign promises. All the more reason for a referendum on the Brexit terms.
Pledge for science and farming offers stopgap not solution
Treasury commitment to continue funding for science projects agreed before this autumn and for farmers until 2020 isn’t good enough.
Express corrects false link of migrants to NHS shortfall
InFacts complaint to press watchdog forces correction of headline wrongly linking EU migrants to projected £10bn shortfall in NHS budget.
EU not denying patients life-saving breast cancer drugs
Press claims EU red tape keeps cancer-fighting drug from patients. Manufacturer delays and UK’s value for money concerns are bigger hurdles.
Leave’s latest myth-making: The People v the Elites
Peace and democracy in Europe; prosperity and consumer choice; freedom to live anywhere in Europe: these are not projects of elites, still less a plot against the people.
Wollaston puts bomb under Vote Leave’s post-truth politics
Former Brexiteer slams Leave camp’s “shameful” claims about NHS and “financial lie” that we send EU £350m/week. But will Vote Leave listen?
Vote Leave TV ads: Leave out the Innuendo
Vote Leave’s NHS TV ads are long on sly suggestion and short on firm facts
Vote Leave’s A&E analysis fails GCSE maths
Latest “research” contains schoolboy error of confusing correlation and causation. It should have asked NHS chief the real answer.
Gove scaremongers on migration free-for-all
Turkey won’t join EU for ages, if indeed it ever does. In any case, free movement benefits the economy and the NHS.
Brexiteers face climate change dilemma
If Leave camp wants to lower energy prices they’ll need to ditch climate change pledges. This will be costly and politically damaging.
Quitting EU would mean less money for NHS, not more
The economic damage caused by Brexit would hit tax revenue, wiping out the smallish saving from not paying into the EU budget.
No Health Surplus: Brexit wouldn’t yield billions for NHS
Vote Leave say that Brexit would give us the fiscal firepower needed to save the NHS. They’re wrong.