Michael Gove has finally admitted what Brexit really was. A lie that worked and was therefore justified👇 In 2026, Gove is still insisting the £350m Brexit bus slogan was “literally the truth”, even after years of fact-checking, economic evidence and public harm. He now says it doesn’t matter that the UK never paid £350m a week to the EU, or that the money was never “taken back”. Why? Because belief mattered more than accuracy. That is an extraordinary admission. Gove actually compares belief in the Brexit claim to religious faith, saying you can recite facts forever, but you’ll never convince the other side. Read that again. A former Cabinet minister is saying: • facts don’t matter • truth is subjective • emotional mobilisation beats evidence That’s propaganda. And here’s the part they still don’t want you to notice: Yes, NHS spending went up but from a smaller economy. Brexit amputated future growth. UK GDP per head is 6–8% lower than it would have been. Investment is down. Productivity is down. Trade is weaker. Spending more money after you’ve damaged the economy isn’t a “dividend”. It’s damage control. The £350m bus didn’t “fund the NHS”. It funded a political project that: • shrank the economy • hollowed out public services • stripped rights and protections • and now locks the UK into US-led deregulation And Gove knows it. That’s why he’s no longer arguing the numbers. He’s arguing belief. Brexit didn’t survive because it was true. It survived bc lying persuaded enough people (37% of the electorate) and the people who did it were never held accountable. That’s the real scandal. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/m…