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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Jeremy Hunt's Treasury slammed by watchdog for 'misleading' inflation tweet

A watchdog which cracks down on dodgy stats has complained about a Treasury graph showing small falls in inflation.

The Office for Statistics Regulation accused Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s department of “misleading” the public with a bar chart posted on Twitter.

Uploaded on February 15, it shows apparently big falls in the consumer price index from 11.1% in October to 10.1% last month.

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