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“We are in the last stages” of negotiating a deal

Boris Johnson, government Twitter video

29 August 2019

Facts

There was no evidence to support this claim. Five days earlier, he told the BBC in an interview at the G7 summit in France that the chances of getting a deal were “touch and go.”

Verdict

While Johnson’s contradictory claims were not lies, they were misleading.

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