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Vote Leave

Organization that campaigns for Britain to leave the European Union

Fact-Checks

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Nov 27, 2025
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The UK leaving the EU would give the NHS £350 million a week

The claim that “leaving the EU would give the NHS £350 million a week” originated from the Vote Leave campaign and was a prominent slogan in 2016; fact‑checking bodies and later analyses say this figu...

Nov 11, 2025
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What role did Nigel Farage play in the Brexit referendum?

Nigel Farage was a central, high-profile campaigner for Brexit who led UKIP during its rise and later founded the Brexit Party, helping to mainstream Euroscepticism and mobilize voters for the Leave c...

Dec 15, 2025
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Farage 350 million pledge for NHS

Nigel Farage disavowed the Leave campaign’s prominent “£350 million a week for the NHS” claim immediately after the 2016 referendum, calling the promise a “mistake” and saying he could not guarantee t...

Dec 13, 2025

What happened to the money Boris promised the NHS on the bus?

The Vote Leave bus slogan — “We send the EU £350 million a week — let’s fund our NHS instead” — was a political claim, not a government line-item transfer; reporting and analysis show it was disputed ...

Jan 27, 2026

How did UK fact-checkers evaluate the £350 million-a-week Brexit claim?

UK fact-checkers overwhelmingly judged the “” slogan to be misleading or false: the figure represented a gross number not 's net payment after the rebate and receipts, and independent checkers such as...

Jan 24, 2026

How was the £350 million per week Brexit NHS figure calculated and by whom?

The claim was not a magic accounting discovery but a cherry-picked headline derived from for 's gross payments into budget, seized and amplified by the during the ; it ignored rebates, EU spending tha...

Jan 16, 2026

What fact-checking organizations have evaluated the £350 million NHS claim and what did they find?

Multiple reputable fact‑checking organisations — including Full Fact, the BBC/major news fact‑checkers, Channel 4 News’ FactCheck and international outlets such as Reuters and AP acting in a fact‑chec...