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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Rachel Wearmouth

MYSTERIOUS: Boris johnson issued with third warning from stats watchdog over making false claims - What They Never Told You

Boris Johnson has been rebuked by the stats watchdog a third time after the Prime Minister made false claims about employment he had already been told were untrue.

The UK Statistics Authority warned the PM his claim at a PMQs in February that there were "500,000 more people in paid employment now than there were before the pandemic began" was wrong.

While people on payrolls are up since pre-Covid, the number of people in jobs overall was still down by 580,000 compared to December 2019-February 2020.

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