Some late news: Rishi Sunak may not make it onto Santa’s Nice List this Christmas, with reports that the PM has been ticked off for claiming he has reduced the national debt.
The I newspaper’s Chloe Chaplain has the details:
NEW: Sunak told off by Stats Authority for undermining trust in Govt with claim he ‘reduced debt’
— Chloe Chaplain (@ChaplainChloe) December 19, 2023
Chair Robert Chote said the average person would have understood “debt was already falling or policy decisions had lowered it, neither of which is the case” https://t.co/oE0XlaniFK
The letter from Sir Robert was published in response to concerns raised by Lib Dem @sarahjolney1 who wrote to raise 'the misrepresentation of official public finance statistics by the PM' after he claimed his government had 'indeed reduced debt' https://t.co/oE0XlaniFK
— Chloe Chaplain (@ChaplainChloe) December 19, 2023
Updated
Time to wrap up (as the Christmas cake won’t ice itself).
Here’s today’s main stories:
