Peter Oborne says ‘misleading statements’ have shot to ‘record levels’ under Boris Johnson’s Government (Picture: Reuters)

Occasions where the Prime Minister and his cabinet have been accused of distorting the truth or simply lying are being tracked on a new website.

Ever since Tony Blair’s administration dishonestly led the country to war with Iraq in 2003, journalist Peter Oborne has kept a dossier of porkies by British governments.

After seeing the scale of ‘lies, falsehoods and misleading statements’ rise ‘exponentially to record levels’ under Boris Johnson’s leadership, the political commentator decided to publish them online.

Howlers include the Prime Minister vowing not to drink until Brexit was delivered, only to be seen sipping on Whisky in a distillery and drinking beer in a pub in Wolverhampton.




He also told exporters in Northern Ireland they would not need to fill in extra paperwork after the UK leaves the EU, despite Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay saying the opposite.

The PM was taken to task over his claim Northern Ireland exporters wouldn’t need to fill in paperwork to send to Britain after Brexit (Picture: Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Setting out his vision for a dynamic free-market economy in his Conservative Party conference speech, Johnson said: ‘Yes you heard it right, capitalism – and when did you last hear a Tory leader talk about capitalism?’

His predecessor Theresa May might have something to say about that – having called the economic system the ‘greatest agent of collective human progress ever created’ in 2017.

David Cameron was also reasonably pro-capitalist, calling it ‘the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness’ in 2012.

And who could forget the PM saying ‘there’s no press here’, in front of several television cameras, as he was confronted by the father of a patient at Whipps Cross hospital in east London?

Boris-johnson-lies.com also calls him out for accusing MPs of ‘refusing time and time again to deliver Brexit’.

Fact checkers say the Commons approved a second reading for his withdrawal bill and that the Tory leader is the one who ‘paused’ it.

Peter Oborne has been keeping a dossier of government lies ever since Tony Blair’s time in power (Picture: REX)

This was because Parliament rejected the Government’s programme motion which only would have given them three days to scrutinise the legislation.

Oborne also tears apart Johnson’s pledge for £1.8 billion in ‘new money’ for the NHS, which was actually just a removal of a freeze on cash it already has.

Chancellor Sajid Javid is scrutinised and accused of ‘ludicrous fake news’ after claiming a government led by Jeremy Corbyn would spent £1.2 trillion over a five year period.

Oborne’s website says the figure relies on Labour implementing its four-day working week in its first day of office.

But the party is actually aiming to bring down the average public sector working week to 32 hours within a decade.

Boris Johnson enjoys a refreshing beer in Wolverhampton, after vowing not to drink until Brexit was done (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

The Conservative Party Twitter account comes under fire over a video showing the Shadow Brexit Secretary lost for words at a question by Piers Morgan about Labour’s Brexit position.

Sir Keir Starmer did in fact provide an answer but the Tories cut this off for their campaign video.

Calling the video ‘fake news’ while speaking with Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly, Morgan said: ‘Why should we believe any video or anything that you guys put out?



‘If you’re prepared to be that shameless and that cynical and that misleading, why should we believe anything?’

Cleverly did not answer his question and refused to say sorry for the video.

Writing in the New Statesman, Oborne says: ‘After weeks of work, my website has finally gone live.

‘It shows that the lying taking place under the Johnson administration is far more serious than anything that has taken place before. Much of it is deliberate, calculated and systematic.’

Number 10 and the Conservative Party have been contacted for comment.

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