Boris Johnson has repeatedly made the false claim that extending the Brexit deadline would cost the UK £1 billion a month, according to a fact checking website.

Johnson claimed in his conference speech today, as he has on multiple occasions in recent weeks, that the UK would have to fork out £1bn a month to extend the Brexit deadline from October to January, as has been proposed by MPs.

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He said yesterday on the Today programme, for example: “I think that it would be a mistake to keep the UK bound in beyond the time that the people want to come out… at a cost of £1 billion a month.”

This calculation seems to be based on the idea that we contribute £250 million a week to the EU (and is coincidentally an admittance that Johnson’s £350bn bus figure was total baloney).

However, Full Fact have pointed out the idiocy in Johnson’s argument.

Namely, Johnson says he wants to leave the EU with a deal. If we do, we are still required to contribute to EU budgets until the end of the transition period in December 2020. So, any budget payments that we make after extending the Brexit deadline would be exactly the same as the budget payments we would make if we agreed a deal and left the EU.

Once again, Boris Johnson’s “facts” are actually entirely false.