Britain's statistics regulator has accused Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson of misleadingly claiming that leaving the European Union will give Britain an extra 350 million pounds ($475 million) a week to spend on health care. He said the U.K. will "take back control of roughly 350 million a week" when it leaves the EU, and it would be "a fine thing" if much of it went to the National Health Service. U.K. Statistics Authority chief David Norgrove chided Johnson in a letter, saying it was a gross rather than net figure. Norgrove called the figure "a gross misuse of official statistics." Johnson accused Norgrove of distorting his article, but the statistics authority said Monday that Norgrove stood by his opinion.

Source: ABC News September 18, 2017 09:08 UTC