The Leave campaign is doing well at the moment: taking a lead in the polls and spooking the government no end. But is it getting rather carried away with its success? This morning on the Today programme Priti Patel gave a rather awkward interview about the campaign’s spending priorities in the event of a Brexit that made it sound rather as though Brexiteers were one party with a manifesto for domestic policy, rather than a cross-party campaign group pushing for one thing, which is for Britain to leave the European Union.
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The Employment Minister told Mishal Husain that ‘we have said that we would spend British taxpayers’ money on a range of priorities including the NHS and in particular as well on VAT on fuel so those are the two areas – let me be clear about this – those are the two areas that we have said we would spend money on’.
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