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Chancellor George Osborne faced a fresh “phoney stats” storm yesterday, days after a Treasury release on welfare spending was exposed as crude electioneering.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lodged an official complaint with UK Statistics Authority chairman Andrew Dilnot alleging that the Tory minister broke its code of conduct by publishing flawed “Conservative propaganda” on departmental headed paper.
Ms O’Grady branded the October 23 release “a clear breach of the rules that protect the public from political spin disguised as official figures.”
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
