led up the garden path

"We must not see people led up the garden path once again," she said.

Health and care spokeswoman Helen Morgan says the public had been "led up the garden path" by the Tories, while accusing Labour of "dither and delay" and treating those affected with "complete disrespect" for trying to bury the news on the day of Trump's inauguration.

I love being hoodwinked, led up the garden path, dazzled by red herrings and then awed into submission by an ingenious finale.

"We've been well and truly led up the garden path - especially by Boris Johnson, with how Brexit has worked out for Northern Ireland."

"But my view - and having talked to people who were involved in that process is - we weren't led up the garden path, there was genuinely progress made. "We came really close, but we've got to do it.