Oh dear. Although Leave are currently speeding ahead of Remain in the polls, now is not the time for the Out campaign to rest on their laurels. Alas Priti Patel’s performance on the Today show this morning is unlikely to do them any favours.
The work and pensions minister was taken to task by Mishal Husain on the BBC programme over Vote Leave’s spending promises. When Husain put to Patel that the Out campaign were making spending promises they lacked the authority to see through, a defensive Patel responded by putting in a robotic performance. She repeatedly said ‘let me be clear’ without shining much light on whether money would go where Vote Leave has promised in the event of Brexit:
MH: Out of that £60 million a week, how much would you spend on the sorts of thing your campaign has talked about, which includes school places, new roads, VAT on fuel which you’ve been talking about, and John Redwood has talked about tax cuts.
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