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Tory Jeremy Hunt has been left humiliated after he accidentally disagreed with HIMSELF on live TV.

The Health Secretary was ambushed spectacularly by BBC host Andrew Marr after he claimed "a lot of experts have been proved wrong" about Brexit.

Mr Hunt was trying to back Theresa May's claim that there will be a 'Brexit dividend' to fund the NHS after Britain leaves the EU.

So he was confronted with a quote by one such "expert" who said it wouldn't exist.

Bullish Mr Hunt was asked if he agreed with the "expert", and replied: "No".

He was then immediately told the expert was, in fact, himself.

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Mr Hunt made the original comment in the House of Commons on 6 July 2016 - two weeks after the country voted to leave the EU.

At the time he told MPs not to trust claims by Vote Leave, led by Boris Johnson, that Britain could reclaim £350million a week of EU budget payments to spend on the NHS.

Mr Hunt said in 2016: "Even the net figure - the more like £100 million net contribution that we make to the EU - is not a figure that we can bank on with any certainty.

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"Because , even if it did materialise after an exit from the EU, it would be negated by the very smallest of contractions in the economy.

"[That] would itself reduce the tax base and the amount of public spending available."

Confronted with his quote today, Mr Hunt said he didn't agree with it.

Told it was in fact by him, the flustered Cabinet minister took a couple of seconds to register, then said: "I don't agree with the line of questioning."

Mr Marr replied: "That's your own quote!"

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It comes after PM Theresa May unveiled the health service's 70th birthday present - £20.5billion a year in extra real terms funding by 2024.

But claims the 3.4% rise would be funded by a "Brexit dividend" unravelled after economists and Tory MPs said it did not exist.

Mrs May admitted much of the cash will come from higher taxes, yet has not said what those taxes will be.

During a testy exchange Mr Hunt refused to guarantee the Tories would keep their pledge to cut corporation tax to 17%.

Instead he said "all will be revealed" within six months at the Budget.

Mr Hunt insisted part of the cash will come from "subscriptions that we won’t be having to pay to Brussels."

But he admitted "I don’t think we will have very much Brexit dividend" in 2019 or 2020 because Britain will still be locked into a costly transition period.

He also admitted the £20bn cash is only "conditional" on the NHS coming up with an efficiency and performance plan.

Unimpressed BBC host Mr Marr said: "If Jeremy Corbyn came into this studio and said, ‘I’m going to spend £20 billion extra on something but I can’t tell you how I’m raising it,’ he would be absolutely crucified."