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Two-faced Theresa May squandered what little remained of her threadbare credibility with the Prime Minister’s barefaced NHS Brexit “dividend” lie.

Either calculating May knows she wasn’t telling the truth or the PM’s so dazed by daily indignities that the bewildered Tory leader’s lost all grip on reality.

I’m plumping for the first and believe a dishonoured May is publicly dishonest in the hope of buying a little longer in Downing Street.

Her pact with the devil threatens and deserves to backfire swiftly and spectacularly when nobody should believe another word she says.

No Brexit dividend exists as May’s aware when her own Government’s Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts a £15billion economic hit from the growth-destroying EU exit.

Whatever’s eventually saved on Brussels club membership fees, and it is less than half the £350m touted by lie-ability Boris Johnson, is more than wiped out by lost trade.

Theresa La-La suddenly pretending otherwise is a synthetic fig leaf to spare the blushes of Tory Brextremists in the hope they’ll cut her a little slack.

There’s fat chance of a reprieve when tactical errors and a strategy vacuum designate her the most despised figure in a Tory civil war.

On Wednesday in the House of Commons after today in the House of Lords her word won’t be accepted as a dozen Conservative rebels kick themselves for believing solemn guarantees Mrs Janus gave in person last week.

May’s NHS spending boasts are as fabricated as the Brexit fictious windfall with 3.4% annual rises below the long-term average and minimum 4% experts warn is needed.

Her acceptance an injection’s required nails eight years of Tory austerity lies yet condemns the NHS to permanent life-support instead of reviving medical care.

When Labour’s £30billion manifesto promise funded by taxes on the rich is half as much again as May’s unfunded invention we know in whose hands the NHS is safe.

IPPR think tank chief Tom Kibasi’s observation the PM appears confused when it’s supposed to be £384m, £414m or £600m a week is disturbing evidence of spin on the hoof.

The Prime Minister lying to herself or lying to the nation both leave May unfit to run a bath never mind the country.