Boris Johnson made inaccurate statements on child poverty, investigation finds.
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By PRESS ASSOCIATION
The Government has been accused of being in denial about a rising level of child poverty in the UK.
It comes after the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) concluded Boris Johnson has made several inaccurate claims on the issue since being elected in December last year.
The OSR responded to a complaint from the End Child Poverty Coalition over three incidences when the Prime Minister made what the coalition described as ‘misleading’ statements.
Writing to the OSR, the coalition said Mr Johnson’s claim on The Andrew Marr Show on December 1 2019 that there ‘are 400,000 fewer children in poverty than there were in 2010’ was incorrect.
It also said Mr Johnson’s statement that ‘absolutely poverty and relative poverty have both declined under this Government’ and ‘there are hundreds of thousands, I think 400,000, fewer families living in poverty now than there were in 2010’, made at PMQs on June 17, this year was also untrue.
The coalition also contended that at PMQ...
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