UPDATE 1-UK PM Johnson ready to fast-track health funding to meet Brexit pledge

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will fast-track funding for Britain's public health service, announcing 1.8 billion pounds to upgrade 20 hospitals, part of the new leader's push to meet Brexit pledges made in the 2016 referendum. Johnson, a figurehead for the "Leave" campaign, promoted the idea that Britain could spend 350 million pounds ($425 million) a week on the National Health Service after Brexit, often photographed next to the slogan on a "Vote Leave" bus. "Which is why I am so determined to deliver now on the promises of that 2016 referendum campaign: not just to honour the will of the people, but to increase the cash available for this amazing national institution," he wrote in the Sunday Times.

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