Boris Johnson makes incorrect claim on jobs

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There were “more people in work now than before the pandemic began”, he said at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.

But on Tuesday, Ed Humpherson, from the Office for Statistics Regulation, had sent one of the prime minister’s advisers at Downing Street a letter saying it was “incorrect to state that there were more people in work at the end of this period than the start”.

Responding to a complaint from the fact-checking organisation Full Fact, Mr Humpherson had told No 10 this claim had been made by the prime minister in Parliament on 24 November, 15 December, 5 January, 12 January and 19 January.

And it was “disappointing” the prime minister had “continued to refer to payroll employment as if describing total employment, despite contact from our office and from others”.

The problem is Mr Johnson has been “mixing up” the number of people on payrolls, which has gone up, with the number of people in work, which has not. They are not the same thing - the payroll number excludes self-employed people, for example.

Labour MP Justin Madders raised a point of order in the House of Commons, pointing out the letter saying the claim was incorrect. “The public have a right to expect what is said by the prime minister at the dispatch box to be truthful and accurate,” he said.

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Another day, Another lie from BJ … :man_shrugging:

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And the news is?

  1. Johnson is sacked from The Times for lying.
  2. Johnson is recorded agreeing to hand over personal details of a journalist, who his friend wanted to beat up. Johnson is heard to express concern about what is happening, but still hands over the details. He later lied & said he thought it was a joke.
    2004, He is sacked from the Conservative Front Benches for lying about an affair with Petronella Wyatt & it was Michael Howard the Tory chairman who sacked him.

Now add in Jennifer Accuri, the claims on the vote leave bus, wallpaper gate & a few other well documented dishonesties & what’s new?

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The next lie - some people try to keep count:

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