Iain Duncan Smith on the Andrew Marr Show this morning (Picture: BBC)

Iain Duncan Smith, one of the top Tory Brexiteers has now backtracked over the Vote Leave’s pledge to give the NHS the £350million that the EU takes every week.

The former Tory leader was presented with the pledge by Andrew Marr this morning, but he denied promising the money would be spent on the NHS.

Vote Leave campaigned using a bus that promised the money for the NHS.

Get out now: EU leader tells Britain it must invoke Article 50 on TuesdayMr Duncan Smith denied the Leave side had broken promises to switch £350 million a week from Brussels to the NHS as he suggested something like half that amount could go to the health service.




‘It is not a promise broken, I never said that through the course of the election, what I said was we will be able to spend the lion’s share of that money,’ he said.

Mr Duncan Smith also said that the new Tory PM must come from the Brexit camp.

The bus that promised £350million for the NHS (Picture: Getty)

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The hard-line stance would rule out pro-Remain Home Secretary Theresa May from the top job, as she was being positioned as the ‘Stop Boris Johnson’ candidate by MPs loyal to David Cameron.

‘Whoever takes up that job… it would be very, very difficult for the public who have voted for leaving the European Union to find that they then had a prime minister who actually was opposed to leaving the European Union, Mr Duncan Smith told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show.

Get out now: EU leader tells Britain it must invoke Article 50 on Tuesday’There was a clear decision, and what has to happen is delivery on that, and somebody who has been involved in that clearly has to be the case, because the Government itself had a view… which was to Remain, so now we need to change that position and actually deliver on this very clear mandate form the British people.’

Former defence secretary Liam Fox echoed the calls for an anti-EU PM as he refused to rule himself out of the leadership contest.

Pro-Remain Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned that candidates to replace Mr Cameron must spell out exactly what trade-off they would aim to make in Brexit negotiations with the EU over what he called ‘incompatible’ positions made by Leave that the UK could control immigration yet remain in the single currency.

That money won’t be going on the NHS after all (Picture: Getty)

‘We will not be able to negotiate control of migration from the EU and at the same time full access to the single market. There will have to be a trade-off,’ Mr Hammond told ITV’s Peston on Sunday.

‘Key Leave campaigners made contradictory promises to the British people. Now they are going to have to resolve that by explaining how they will balance the trade-off between the different things that they promised which are mutually incompatible.

Jeremy Corbyn sacks Hilary Benn for raising concerns about his leadership’That will be hugely disappointing to many people in this country who voted Leave, but how those trade-offs are made is the key question now for the prosperity of our country,’ Mr Hammond said.



Asked if Ukip leader Nigel Farage would be involved in the cross-party exit negotiations with Brussels, Mr Duncan Smith suggested the party’s sole MP Douglas Carswell be consulted.

‘There is a Ukip MP who is part of that process in a parliamentary sense, and I’m very happy to discuss… with Ukip about what their expectations are, but the Government itself, right now, actually dictates how this will happen,’ he said.