Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has been accused of misleading Parliament after the Treasury admitted 'Treasury analysis' wasn't official - exclusive by BenKentish
The Deputy Prime Minister has been accused of misleading Parliament after using a "baseless" statistic while covering for his boss during Prime Minister’s Questions last month.Oliver Dowden, the Cabinet Office minister who also acts as Rishi Sunak’s deputy, claimed in the House of Commons that Labour’s plans to invest £28bn a year in green energy would add £1,000 a year to "everyone’s mortgages".
However, the Treasury has admitted to LBC that the statistic does not come from official analysis. It was forced to make the same admission to the UK’s statistics watchdog after that organisation demanded to know where the figure had come from.The Statistics Authority said that, despite investigation, it had been unable to find any
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