How accurate are Jeremy Hunt’s claims about the UK economy?
by Rowena Mason and Heather Stewart from World news | The Guardian on (#6MWR1)
Chancellor seems to cherrypick data as he tries to outline how the Tories have got the country back on its feet
Jeremy Hunt called a press conference on Friday to outline why the electorate should trust the Conservatives with the economy, but some of his claims appear to have used cherrypicked facts and figures. He gave his speech just over a week after the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, accused the Conservatives of gaslighting" the UK over the state of the economy by presenting too rosy a picture of what is actually going on.
Here are some of Hunt's statements on the economy, and some context for his claims.
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