Boris Johnson has said the NHS will get substantial extra funding after Brexit, despite Theresa May’s refusal to endorse the leave campaign’s promise of an additional £100m a week. Johnson was pressed on the extra money for the NHS after Andrew Lansley, the former health secretary, suggested at least £5bn could be available to the NHS after Brexit. “Once that happens, clearly it will be possible for the UK government to spend people’s money on our priorities. The account, in a book serialised in the Mail on Sunday, says Johnson vacillated, sending conflicting text messages to Cameron the day before he came out for Brexit. “He says Boris is really a ‘confused inner’, and their previous conversations confirmed that view to him,” he wrote.

Source: The Guardian September 25, 2016 10:48 UTC