Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has repeated the controversial claim that leaving the EU would save £350m a week, which could be spent on the NHS.
The figure, used by Leave campaigners before the referendum, was "misleading", the UK statistics watchdog later said.
Mr Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph that it would be fine, "if a lot of that money went on the NHS".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his words "dredge up the fantasy".
In the run up to the referendum, the Leave campaign claimed the UK sent £20bn a year, or £350m a week, to Brussels in 2014.
Vote Leave emblazoned the figure on its campaign bus and said the money could be used to fund extra spending on public services such as the NHS.
But a letter from the head of the UK statistics watchdog Sir Andrew Dilnotduring the referendum campaign described the figure as "potentially misleading".
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