UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said the Leave campaign's claim there would be an extra £350 million a week to spend on the NHS if Britain voted to leave the EU was a "mistake".
The claim was one of the key statements made by the official Vote Leave campaign, and it was used in adverts and emblazoned on the side of the campaign bus.
.@Nigel_Farage says he can't guarantee an extra £350m a week will go to the NHS. That promise was a "mistake" @GMB
During an interview on ITV's Good Morning Britain on Friday morning, after Britain voted to leave the EU, Farage was asked whether he could guarantee that the £350 million sent to the EU would now go the NHS.
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Farage answered: “No I can’t. I would never have made that claim. That was one of the mistakes made by the Leave campaign.”
He added: “It wasn’t one of my adverts.”
The UK Statistics Authority watchdog had previously described the £350 million figure as “misleading” and did not “not take into account the rebate or other flows from the EU to the UK public sector”.