Brexit fact check: Did the UK ever really send £350m a week to the EU?

Ten years after the Brexit referendum, one of the campaign’s most memorable slogans remains under scrutiny: “We send the EU £350 million a week, let’s fund our NHS instead.” According to Mark Dayan, Brexit Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, “It was a very exaggerated way of counting contributions to the EU that didn't count some of the money that we got back.” But did Brexit deliver a financial boost to the NHS? Dayan argues: “What we saw in practice is that because of the economic impact of leaving the EU, and the lower taxes that resulted in, there was actually less money available into the health service.” Watch Debunked for the full story.

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