From: Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 24 Nov 17 - 05:37 PM
Er, Nige, it was really only ?160 million... ROTFLM bleedin' AO emojee...

?160 million represented one method of coming up with a figure, but not the one Boris Johnson used. After the ?350 million figure was quoted Sir David Norgrove (Head of UK Statistics Authority) wrote to him (as quoted in most newspapers) complaining that he had "misused official statistics". Implicit in this was the fact that the figure quoted by Boris was part of "official statistics". As such the comment was something of an own-goal by David Norgrove.

ROTFLM bleedin' AO Sorry to hear you have a bleeding arse. Perhaps you need an urgent appointment with your doctor.