GETTY NHS sites are directing users to pro-EU propaganda

FREE now SUBSCRIBE Invalid email Make the most of your money by signing up to our newsletter fornow We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights.

The Government has placed an innocent looking weblink on several of its official websites. However, when visitors click on it they are taken to an online version of its controversial £9million pro-EU leaflet. Dozens of sites, including the Treasury, Department of Health, Department for Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Justice and the DVLA, now carry the link.

SG This weblink sends users to pro-EU publicity

Last night Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen said: “The Government is determined to use every lever of power to try and affect the result, which is quite clearly undemocratic. The referendum has now become a threeway contest – between Remain, Leave and the Government.”

The Government is determined to use every lever of power to try and affect the result, which is quite clearly undemocratic Andrew Bridgen, Conservative MP

The gov.uk websites received 922 million hits last year. Once a user clinks on the referendum link they are taken to the Government’s own site, which explains: “Why the Government believes we should remain.” It also features a video backing the Remain case. Brexiteers have long feared they will be outgunned in the debate, not only by the might of the Government but also by the European Commission. Last night it was revealed that a group of worried MPs has written to EC President Jean Claude Juncker urging him not to fund a propaganda campaign supporting Britain’s continued membership of the EU. The letter, signed by 26 Eurosceptic MPs, demands urgent assurances about the role the EC intends to play in the UK’s forthcoming referendum.

SG

GETTY Dozens of sites, including the Treasury and Department of Health now carry the link