£350m Brexit claim was 'too low', says Boris Johnson

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£350m Brexit claim was 'too low', says Boris Johnson

16/01/18



The controversial claim that the UK sends £350m a week to the EU was a "gross underestimate", UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said.

He told the Guardian the UK's contribution was already £362m a week and would rise to £438m by the end of the post-Brexit transition period.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42698981

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Several ago when I made a YT video about the UK sending £350 million each week to fund the EU, somebody informed me underneath the video that the amount had increased to £375million a week... and that was about 4 or 5 years ago.... so I knew that figure of £350 million was too low by the time of the Brexit campaign.

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GBP£438 million = 493 million euros or US$604 million.

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A vow to spend Britain’s foreign aid in “the national interest”, rather than simply to help the world’s poorest people, has triggered criticism of the International Development Secretary.

Penny Mordaunt came under fire after pledging to allocate her £13billion overseas aid budget on “tackling the issues that matter most to the British people”.

Such projects could include preventing plastics polluting the oceans and the illegal wildlife trade – which “the British public care about passionately”, she said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a8160631.html

UK post Brexit plans to cut sending billions of UK taxmoney in Foreign Aid to other poorer nations unless their governments start to make some effort to help themselves: http://www.theweek.co.uk/63394/why-d...on-foreign-aid

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The strength of sterling currency and the British pound is rising even stronger against both the US dollar and the euro.

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/ci...conomy-Britain

https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/gb...e-tide-recedes