Watchdog ends investigation into description of UK economy ‘going gangbusters’
by Phillip Inman from Economics | The Guardian on (#6NAV5)
Exclusive: ONS official's remarks, not intended as comment on overall state of the economy, were later used by Sunak
The UK's statistics watchdog has closed an investigation into remarks made by an official about the economy going gangbusters" that were cited by Rishi Sunak.
It was looking into the comments made by chief economist of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) last month amid concerns that politicians could misuse economic data in the run-up to the election.
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