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The backtracking started before the official result had even been declared, with Nigel Farage saying the £350 million NHS claim was a ‘mistake’.

Official Leave campaign adverts on posters and buses claimed: ‘Let’s give our NHS the £350 million the EU takes every week’ and ‘We send the EU £350 million a week, let’s fund our NHS instead’.

But speaking on Good Morning Britain, the Ukip leader said he could not guarantee it would be possible and the Leave campaign should not have said it.

Susanna Reid, questioning him, asked: ‘That’s why many people have voted! You’re saying after 17 million people have voted for Leave – and that (advert) was a huge part of the propaganda.




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‘You’re now saying that’s a mistake?’

Going on holiday soon? You’re the first victim of the leave victoryFarage claimed: ‘It wasn’t one of my adverts. I would never have made that claim. That was one of the mistakes I think that the Leave campaign made.’

On not being part of Vote Leave, he said: ‘You must understand I was ostracised by the official Leave campaign and did, as I have always done, did my own thing.’

The £350 million figure has twice been described as misleading by the UK Statistics Authority watchdog because it referred only to the UK’s £19 billion gross annual contribution and did not take into account Britain’s rebate or money that comes back from the EU.

Farage insisted the NHS could still be better off: ‘We have a 10 billion a year, £34 million a day featherbed. That is going to be free money we can spend on the NHS or schools or whatever it is.’

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