Nigel Farage disowns 'Vote Leave £350m' pledge for NHS

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has disowned a Vote Leave campaign pledge to spend £350m of European Union cash on the NHS just hours after the UK voted for a Brexit.

Farage was asked on ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme whether he would guarantee that the money pledged for the health service during the campaign would now be spent on it.

Speaking on the morning of the referendum result he claimed that he had never made any such pledge.

“No I can’t [guarantee it], and I would never have made that claim. That was one of the mistakes that I think the Leave campaign made,” he said.

When it was pointed out to Farage that Vote Leave placed the £350m claim onto the side of a tour bus and drove it around the country, Farage added: “It wasn’t one of my adverts – I can assure you! I think they made a mistake in doing that. 

“We have a £10 billion, £34 million a day featherbed, that is going to be free money that we can spend on the NHS, on schools, on whatever it is.”

Farage has been more closely associated with the Leave.EU campaign than Vote Leave, which was the official Brexit campaign.