Sunak may have undermined trust with claims to have ‘reduced debt’ – watchdog

Business | Business News Rishi Sunak has been challenged over his claims to have reduced public debt by the chief of the UK’s statistics watchdog. The Prime Minister said that “debt is falling” in a social media video and that “we have indeed reduced debt” at Prime Minister’s Questions last month. But the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) Sir Robert Chote suggested Mr Sunak’s claims were misleading. This ... may have undermined trust in the Government’s use of statistics and quantitative analysis in this area UKSA chairman Sir Robert Chote In a letter to Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney , he said the…