Brexit: Michael Gove claims infamous £350m a week for NHS promise ‘delivered’

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Cabinet minister Michael Gove has claimed that the infamous Brexit campaign promise about leaving the EU leading to £350 a week for the NHS had been “delivered”. Mr Gove added: “And there is now more than £350m extra a week for our NHS … Promise made, promise delivered.” Brexit campaigners have never been able to substantiate the claim of extra money going to the NHS – a claim they made because of the contribution the UK made to the EU for being part of the single market and customs union. Even Nigel Farage, part if the unofficial Leave EU campaign, later said he would “never have made that claim” and it was “one of the mistakes” the official Vote Leave team made during the referendum. Boris Johnson with the Vote Leave campaign bus Earlier this year a book claimed that senior BBC figure Sir Robbie Gibb told a news editor not to investigate the claim that Brexit would mean £350m a week going to the NHS.