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Brexit-backing politicians led by Michael Gove have used some extremely creative accounting to claim Britain is set to get a £32 billion windfall after Brexit .

The claims follow revelations from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) that Britain faces almost £60 billion in extra borrowing because we are leaving the EU.

But in an open letter, the former Vote Leave leader claimed there was a net £200 million a week ' Brexit dividend' "buried" in the small print of the OBR financial forecasts.

Mr Gove has demanded the money be spent on the NHS, as suggested by the massive message emblazoned on the side of the Vote Leave bus during the Referendum campaign.

But there's just one problem - there isn't actually any extra money.

What?

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The OBR has made financial predictions based on what it thinks will happen after Brexit . Now, that hasn't been an easy task, because the Government has refused to tell them what they want to get out of the Brexit negotiations.

But they came up with a model that they think is the most likely scenario for post- Brexit Britain.

But when we leave, we stop sending the EU membership fees, right?

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Yes, but as you might expect for some of the country's foremost economic experts, they've accounted for that.

If you turn to page 158 of the OBR report, you'll find an explanation.

"For this forecast, we have made the fiscally neutral assumption that any reduction in these transfers to the EU would be recycled fully into extra domestic spending."

In English, that means that yes, we stop sending that money to the EU, but we're probably going to spend it on other things instead.

Those other things could be the NHS, as demanded on Boris Johnson and Michael Gove's bus, or it could be compensating for lost EU grants for science research and farming.

But it's not actually extra money, is it?

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No. And crucially, the extra £60 billion in borrowing that is predicted just from extra costs due to Brexit in the OBR's forecasts is on top of that.

They've essentially counted it twice.

But who needs experts, eh?

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Chuka Umunna, who chairs campaign group Vote Leave Watch, said: "It's hard to believe someone with such a dodgy grasp of basic maths ever managed to become Education Secretary.

"We know what Michael Gove needs for Christmas - a calculator.

"And he ought to apologise for still peddling misleading figures and trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the British people."