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

763

‎”We’ve secured new free trade deals with over 70 countries since 2016. That’s over £800 billion worth of new global trade”
  • Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, Twitter
Conservative
Additional Notes Brexit Trade

758

‎”On balance Brexit has been a significant success for this country”
  • Michael Gove, Levelling up Secretary, Sky News
Conservative
Brexit Trade

759

‎Suella Braverman is “absolutely” a politician of integrity
  • Michael Gove, Levelling up Secretary, BBC
Conservative

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

688

‎”[Boris Johnson] restored trust in democracy”
Conservative

522

‎”We did everything we could to get that equipment. 97% of the equipment that we secured was ready, fit-for-purpose and there on the front line”
Conservative
Covid NHS & Health

417

‎”Freeports are one of the many advantages that all the nations of the United Kingdom can enjoy as a result of our departure from the European Union.”
Conservative
Brexit

371

‎”Every single procurement decision went through an eight-stage process.”
Conservative

331

‎”Transparency drives everything that the Government do”
Conservative
Covid

321

‎”The government remains fully committed to transparency”
Conservative

291

‎”I’m sure there will be bumpy moments but we are there in order to try to do everything we can to smooth the path.”
Conservative
Brexit Trade

264

‎”There are many areas in which we can co-operate more effectively to safeguard our borders outside the European Union than we ever could inside. Through a variety of methods and arrangements open to us…”
Conservative
Brexit Displaced People

263

‎”Number of People being tested is higher than ever before. 300,000 tests were administered on Friday.”
Conservative
Covid NHS & Health

194

‎”One of the constraints on our capacity to increase testing overall is supply of the specific reagents, the specific chemicals, that are needed in order to make sure that tests are reliable.”
Conservative

193

‎”Well, we had 10,000 tests yesterday”
Conservative
Covid NHS & Health

181

‎”There will be no border down the Irish Sea.”
Conservative
Trade

164

‎”You have to accept we will need some friction. We will minimise it but it is an inevitability of our departure”
Conservative
Brexit Trade

145

‎”I’m not aware of any adverts that we publish that have been misleading”
Conservative
Hospitals NHS & Health Treasury & Finance

108

‎”It’s unfair that people coming from European countries can access free NHS care without paying in, while others make significant contributions”
Conservative
Displaced People NHS & Health

107

‎”Inside the EU we’re trapped in the Common Agricultural Policy. It’s one of the big benefits of leaving the EU, and it will allow us to meet these tree-planting targets which will ensure that we deal with the climate crisis that we face”
  • Michael Gove, Today programme
Conservative
Climate

82

‎”This is no different from the standard procedure, as I understand it, that occurs with these select committee reports”
Conservative

83

‎”It’s going through appropriate procedures, I think it’s been lodged with No. 10 and it will be published in due course.”
Conservative

84

‎”We have taken swift action to deal with any Conservative Party member who has been accused of engaging in Islamophobic language or actions. We’ve made sure those people are suspended and there is an investigation”
Conservative

39

‎There are “only four days parliament might have been sitting when it won’t be sitting”
  • Michael Gove on prorogation
Conservative

37

‎Prorogation is “certainly not” an attempt to stop MPs blocking no deal
  • Michael Gove, BBC interview
Conservative

29

‎”Yellowhammer is a worst-case scenario”
  • Michael Gove, Twitter and on television
Conservative
Brexit

30

‎The leaked Operation Yellowhammer document was an “old document”
  • Michael Gove to television cameras
Conservative
Brexit

3

‎”The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want”
Conservative
Brexit
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