Lies, Falsehoods and Misrepresentations from Boris Johnson to Keir Starmer

£2,000 Labour Tax 0
£900 Tax Cut 0
100,000 Migrants 11
Additional Notes 52
Breach of Ministerial Code 84
Brexit 132
Broken Campaign Promise 11
Client Journalism 26
Climate 16
Conservative 975
Corrected 14
Covid 167
Covid Party's 45
Crime & Policing 24
Displaced People 64
Hospitals 29
Human Rights 36
Israel & Palestine 23
Johnson 309
Johnson in Parliament 80
Labour 29
NHS & Health 141
Prime Minister 135
Russia & Ukraine 18
Starmer 22
Statistics 19
Sunak 112
Trade 52
Treasury & Finance 89
Truss 24
Uncategorized 0
Vaccine 26

932

“Our newfound independence has enabled us to repeatedly get ahead of events. Whether that’s with the manufacturing of lifesaving vaccines, which then gave us the ability to lift out of lockdowns…”
Conservative
Brexit Client Journalism Covid Vaccine

901

‎”Remember Brexit has already helped deliver all kinds of benefits – from new free trade deals to the fastest vaccine roll out in Europe”
  • Boris Johnson, Former Prime Minister and MP, Twitter
Conservative Johnson
Brexit Covid Trade Vaccine

892

‎”The vaccine rollout was a clear example of how being out of the EU actually helped us”
  • Miriam Cates MP, BBC
Conservative
Brexit Covid Vaccine

824

‎”had it not been for the fact that we came out of the European Medicines Agency and the MHRA was now totally free to decide how fast to approve a vaccine. We wouldn’t have been able to do that vaccine rollout so fast … Brexit helped save Lives”
  • Boris Johnson, Former Prime Minister, TalkTV
Conservative Johnson
Brexit Client Journalism Covid Vaccine

823

“Whether leading Europe’s fastest vaccine rollout, striking trade deals with over 70 countries or taking back control of our borders, we’ve forged a path as an independent nation with confidence.”
Conservative Sunak
Brexit Covid Trade Vaccine

822

“Freedom to roll-out one of the world’s fastest vaccine programmes”
  • Suella Braverman, Home Secretary, X Post
Conservative
Brexit Covid Vaccine

821

“One thing that you can point to is our vaccination programme during the pandemic where we were able to go further and faster and lead Europe”
Conservative
Brexit Covid Vaccine

791

‎”We had the fastest vaccine rollout in the world. We had that because of our freedoms after leaving the EU”
Conservative Sunak
Brexit Covid Vaccine

760

‎”We wouldn’t have had the vaccine roll-out that was so successful if we had been within the European Union”
  • Michael Gove, Levelling Up Secretary, Sky News
Conservative
Brexit Covid Vaccine

740

‎”We’ve bought the Moderna which protects you against both Covid and flu, which is a good thing, so get that booster in place.”
Conservative
Covid NHS & Health Vaccine

701

‎”70% of the entire population got a dose [of the Covid-19 vaccine] within six months, faster than any comparable country.”
Conservative Johnson
Covid Vaccine

684

‎”… it’s not the BBC, you know, you actually get your facts right.”
  • Liz Truss, Conservative Leadership Candidate, GB News
Conservative
Covid NHS & Health Vaccine

664

‎”Our Freeport. Our control of immigration from the EU. No longer sending huge net payments to Brussels. No longer being subject to the CJEU. Our faster vaccines roll out. Not being part of a European Army. Shall I continue?!”
Conservative
Brexit Covid Trade Vaccine

642

‎”Thanks to the position we took, we had an independent medical agency that was able to make sure that the first Covid vaccine in anybody’s arm was in the UK, and that was because we were outside something called the European Medicines Agency”
  • PM Boris Johnson, CNN
Conservative Johnson
Brexit Covid Vaccine

612

‎”We got the vaccine roll-out done when [Keir Starmer] would have kept us in the European Medicines Agency”
Conservative Johnson
Breach of Ministerial Code Brexit Covid Johnson in Parliament Prime Minister Vaccine

501

‎”if we had listened to the Opposition, we would have stayed in the European Medicines Agency and we would never have been able to deliver the vaccine roll-out at the speed that we did.”
Conservative Johnson
Breach of Ministerial Code Brexit Covid Johnson in Parliament Prime Minister Vaccine

474

‎”I would particularly note that it is thanks to the fact that we are not in the European Union that we were able to move so quickly” with the vaccine rollout.
Conservative
Brexit Covid Vaccine

462

‎”We have the most successful vaccination program in Europe.”
Conservative
Covid Vaccine

451

‎”Everyone eligible aged 18 and over in England will have the chance to get their booster before the New Year.”
Conservative Johnson
Covid Vaccine

362

‎”If we had followed the advice of the right hon. and learned Gentleman we would have stayed in the European Medicines Agency and would never have had the vaccine roll-out at all.”
Conservative Johnson
Breach of Ministerial Code Brexit Covid Johnson in Parliament Prime Minister Vaccine

348

‎The government’s decision to leave a 12-week gap between vaccine doses “has saved around 12,000 lives”
Conservative
Covid Vaccine

314

‎”The European Medicines Agency … would have made [the vaccine] rollout impossible.”
Conservative Johnson
Breach of Ministerial Code Brexit Covid Johnson in Parliament Prime Minister Vaccine

304

‎”We are rolling out a vaccine programme that has now inoculated 4.2 million people in our country, whereas [Starmer] would have joined the EU scheme”
Conservative Johnson
Breach of Ministerial Code Covid Johnson in Parliament Prime Minister Vaccine

279

‎”A month ago, we changed the regulations to exempt us from requiring EU approval. We would still be waiting if we hadn’t. Thanks to #Brexit we can now move ahead swiftly and safely.”
Conservative
Brexit Covid Vaccine

280

‎”It is absolutely clear that because we’ve left the EU I was able to change the law so that the UK alone could make this authorisation decision.”
Conservative
Brexit Covid Vaccine

281

‎”We could only approve this vaccine so quickly because we have left the EU. Last month we changed the regulations so a vaccine did not need EU approval, which is slower.”
Conservative
Brexit Covid Vaccine
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