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Brexit fact check: Did the UK ever really send £350m a week to the EU?

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Ten years after the Brexit referendum, one of the campaign's most memorable slogans remains under scrutiny: "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead.
60% : " But did Brexit deliver a financial boost to the NHS?
41% : Dayan argues: "What we saw in practice is that because of the economic impact of leaving the EU, and the lower taxes that resulted in, there was actually less money available into the health service.
32% : " According to Mark Dayan, Brexit Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, "It was a very exaggerated way of counting contributions to the EU that didn't count some of the money that we got back.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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