Downing St was repeatedly warned over Boris Johnson’s misleading jobs claims

Statistics watchdog wrote to the PM about selective use of data' after statement about number of people in work

Government officials were warned repeatedly about making misleading claims about job figures before the official statistics watchdog reprimanded Boris Johnson over the matter.

Ed Humpherson, the director general of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), said there had been a series of informal discussions" before the regulator took the unusual" step of issuing public rebukes to No 10 over the same issue twice last month.