TuesdayThe Boris Johnson campaign appears unstoppable with opinion polls of Conservative voters giving him a two-to-one lead over Jeremy Hunt. Yet the closer Johnson gets to No 10, the more tenuous his relationship with the truth appears to get. Some think this was a deliberate dead cat misdirection strategy, but I think he just couldn’t help himself. As a result, almost no one bothers to attend Brexit questions now, so today’s exchanges between the Brexit secretary, Steve Barclay, and his opposite number, Keir Starmer, went almost unnoticed. Starmer asked Barclay to correct three misleading statements that Boris Johnson has regularly used to explain his plan to deliver Brexit.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2019 11:26 UTC