EU referendum: MP Sarah Wollaston swaps sides over ‘untrue’ Leave claims

Conservative MP and doctor, Sarah Wollaston, quit the campaign to leave the EU on the 8 June 2016 and told the BBC she would vote to remain instead. Dr Wollaston, chairman of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, said Vote Leave's claim that Brexit would free up £350m a week for the NHS 'simply isn't true'.

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