Bargaining with bigots is like building on Quicksand

Bargaining with bigots is like building on Quicksand

Brexit camp abandons £350m-a-week NHS funding pledge

Leaders of the cross-party campaign that persuaded the British people to leave the European Union have dropped their pre-referendum pledge of a spending bonanza for the UK health service.

Mason McCann: This might seem obvious or darkly funny, but it's actually a fairly serious threat to democracy. If you convince people to vote for you through outright lies then how can that vote be legitimate? If someone asks you to borrow £20, they can't turn around and empty your bank accounts and claim you agreed to it. This wasn't some obscure, hedged promise, it was written on the side of a bus driving around Britain.