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Jeremy Corbyn
- Jeremy Corbyn reveals secret government documents revealing the impact of Boris Johnson's Brexit plan.
- The confidential documents confirm that there will be checks on goods travelling between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK after Brexit.
- Johnson has repeatedly insisted that no such checks will not take place.
- Corbyn said the documents reveal that the prime minister is "misleading" voters.
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Boris Johnson is "misleading the people" about his Brexit plans, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has claimed after revealing details of a leaked confidential government assessment.
The document, which was handed out to journalists at an event on Friday morning, details officials' private assessment of the impact of Johnson's Brexit plan on trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
The prime minister has promised that there will be no checks or barriers to trade across the Irish Sea after Brexit.
However, the documents confirm that such "customs declarations" will have to take place.
The Labour leader said the documents reveal that Johnson's plans are a "fraud."
"Today I can reveal further hard evidence that Johnson is deliberately misleading the people," Corbyn said.
"This document is very ominous. There will be other secret reports like this one in every government department that reveal the disastrous impacts of his policies on the safety of the food you eat, on the rights you have at work, on the pollution of the air that we breathe and on the jobs and industries that people work in.
"These reports exist but the government is hiding them from you because in this election the Conservatives want you to vote blind."
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