Boris Johnson plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on hospitals and health care technology, as the U.K.'s new prime minister seeks to deliver on his own most contentious political promise.
Back in the 2016 referendum, Johnson's pro-Brexit campaign emblazoned a slogan on the side of its bus that pledged extra cash for Britain's state-run National Health Service if the country voted to leave the European Union. It was attacked as misleading at the time and the argument has dogged Johnson ever since.
Now he is prime minister and intends to make good his three year-old words, according to a person familiar with the matter.