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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 230776" data-attributes="member: 33"><p><strong>32. <u>UK Child Poverty</u></strong></p><p><strong><u></u></strong></p><p>Boris Johnson has repeatedly claimed that the number of families or children in poverty had fallen by 400,000 since 2010. He has said this in TV interviews and in Parliament. However, <strong>he is lying</strong>. Following a complaint by the End Child Poverty Coalition, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has today agreed that the prime minister had repeatedly used official poverty data "selectively, inaccurately and, ultimately, misleadingly". End Child Poverty have commented that "It is deeply insulting to the children and families swept into poverty, when data about them is used selectively and misleadingly at the whim of politicians. The simple fact is that by any measures child poverty is rising, but instead of tackling the problem, the government risks obscuring the issue and misinforming the public.".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 230776, member: 33"] [B]32. [U]UK Child Poverty [/U][/B] Boris Johnson has repeatedly claimed that the number of families or children in poverty had fallen by 400,000 since 2010. He has said this in TV interviews and in Parliament. However, [B]he is lying[/B]. Following a complaint by the End Child Poverty Coalition, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has today agreed that the prime minister had repeatedly used official poverty data "selectively, inaccurately and, ultimately, misleadingly". End Child Poverty have commented that "It is deeply insulting to the children and families swept into poverty, when data about them is used selectively and misleadingly at the whim of politicians. The simple fact is that by any measures child poverty is rising, but instead of tackling the problem, the government risks obscuring the issue and misinforming the public.". [/QUOTE]
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