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A lot of @FactCheck readers have asked us about an interview Dominic Raab gave to BBC News yesterday: bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-pol…
The Foreign Secretary said: "Every Conservative stood on a manifesto which included the language and provision that no deal would be better than a bad deal. We didn't rule out no deal."
It's true that the 2017 Conservative election manifesto said: "We continue to believe that no deal is better than a bad deal for the UK."
You could argue about whether these words were a sufficient warning to voters about no-deal - or about whether the 2017 election result gave the Conservatives a mandate to deliver it, since they lost their majority in parliament.
But we think Mr Raab's words were accurate on this occasion. The bit about no deal is on page 36 of the Conservative manifesto: conservatives.com/manifesto
Last week @FactCheck looked at the Foreign Secretary's claim that he had repeatedly warned voters about the dangers of a no-deal Brexit during the 2016 EU referendum campaign. We struggled to find evidence that backed him up: channel4.com/news/factcheck…
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