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Newsnight presenter Even Davis accused a top Brexit campaigner of misleading the public after he admitted leaving the EU may not cut immigration.

Evan Davies told MEP Daniel Hannan his admission Britain would still have to accept the free movement of labour was “completely at odds with what the public think they’ve just voted for."

At one point the exasperated presenter held his head in his hands, before saying: "I’m sorry we’ve just been through three months of agony on the issue of immigration.

“The public have been led to believe that what they have voted for is an end to free movement.”

During the interview, Mr Hannan was forced to agree that if an independent UK negotiated a trade deal with the EU, similar to that of Norway, they would have to accept workers from other European countries.

However the MEP drew a distinction between workers and EU citizenship, which entitles people from other countries to claim benefits and the right to settle without having a job.

Mr Davies said: "Why didn’t you say this in the campaign?

"Why didn’t you say in the campaign that you were wanting a scheme where we have free movement of labour?"

The admission comes after Nigel Farage revealed the Leave campaign's call to divert an extra £350 million a week to the NHS was a big mistake.

Offical adverts from the group suggested money saved from contributions to the European Union could be spent on the health service instead featured on buses, posters and was a key plank of their campaigning.

But the Ukip leader, who was not part of the Vote Leave campaign, would not guarantee the NHS would get the extra funds.

Asked on ITV's Good Morning Britain, he told Susanna Reid: "No, I can't and I would never have made that claim - it was one of the mistakes that the Leave campaign made."