Labour say they’ve identified six occasions where the Prime Minister has made “misleading” remarks to MPs in the Commons - some of which he’s later walked back
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Rishi Sunak has been accused of an “increasing habit” of making false claims in Parliament.
Labour say they’ve identified six occasions where the Prime Minister has made “misleading” remarks to MPs in the Commons - some of which he’s later walked back.
At Prime Minister’s Questions on 26 April, Mr Sunak claimed there were “record numbers of people in work” - only to admit the next week, this was not the case.
And he was rapped by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) for claiming the asylum backlog was “half” the level Labour left it at in 2010.
Robert Chote, UKSA said this was incorrect and “do not reflect the position shown by the Home Office’s statistics”.
And most recently Mr Sunak claimed an investigation had been launched into claims of “corruption” surrounding the Teesworks development project in Redcar. No such probe had been ordered at the time, though an “independent panel” investigation has since been set up.
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, Labour chair Anneliese Dodds also accused Mr Sunak of having “misrepresented Labour’s policy positions.”
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