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The near £1billion wasted on vanity projects when Boris Johnson was Mayor of London is loose change compared to the bill for his failing Premiership.

The £58million unbuilt 'luvvie' garden bridge, illegal water cannons, narcissistic buses, the conceited Boris Island airport plan in the Thames that never took off and an expensive Taxpayers’ Stadium for West Ham United’s owners – who just happened to donate cash to the Conservative Party – were bad enough.

But they are pennies compared with the pounds his party has cost the country, with their austerity programme – which has cut the economy, squeezed wages, destroyed public services and killed thousands of people – and now Brexit.

The Treasury refuses to estimate the financial damage of Johnson’s Brexit bomb only because Chancellor Sajid Javid knows it is disastrous.

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Experts at the respected NIESR think tank have calculated it would cost each of us £1,100 within a decade by slashing £70billion, or 4%, off the economy creating a Wales-sized hole.

That’s on top of £8billion thrown away on No Deal preparations – including a shipless ferry company – and £100million on pointless October 31 virtual propaganda.

His moronic “Get Brexit Done” mantra is as false as his Halloween promise to leave.

The Tory quack knows a year, maybe years, of renegotiating how we live with Europe follows any divorce from the bloc.

Jeremy Corbyn delivers a big Brexit speech today in Essex in a smart move to address the issue.

He can then focus an election fight on general issues such as wages, jobs, health, education and crime.

Britain’s future in or out of Europe requires a fresh referendum, which Corbyn is offering, while Johnson wants to talk only about Brexit.

This is because he’s pitching to obsessive zealots that are blind to the truth.

Leave and Labour will not have the cash to spend on the NHS and the 83% of schools whose budgets will be reduced next April if the Tories win.

This is despite Johnson pretending he is investing in the future.

Johnson is an expensive nightmare for low and middle earners, disabled, pensioners losing free TV licences and users of public services or law-abiding folk who are worried about crime.

The most significant development of the campaign will be his emergence as an unaffordable fake for the many.