Lies, Falsehoods and Misrepresentations from Boris Johnson to Keir Starmer

£2,000 Labour Tax 0
£900 Tax Cut 0
100,000 Migrants 11
Additional Notes 52
Breach of Ministerial Code 84
Brexit 132
Broken Campaign Promise 11
Client Journalism 26
Climate 16
Conservative 975
Corrected 14
Covid 167
Covid Party's 45
Crime & Policing 24
Displaced People 64
Hospitals 29
Human Rights 36
Israel & Palestine 23
Johnson 309
Johnson in Parliament 80
Labour 29
NHS & Health 141
Prime Minister 135
Russia & Ukraine 18
Starmer 22
Statistics 19
Sunak 112
Trade 52
Treasury & Finance 89
Truss 24
Uncategorized 0
Vaccine 26

986

Debt is “falling as a percentage of GDP”
  • Laura Trott, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, BBC Radio 4
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

983

“Starmer will hand families a £2,200 tax bombshell with £28 billion green jobs investment promise”
Conservative
Client Journalism Treasury & Finance

982

“But we have used our Brexit dividend to get the NHS *more than a £1 billion* more every single week than it had before Brexit”
  • Kemi Badenoch, Secretary of State for Business and Trade, X Post
Conservative
Brexit NHS & Health Treasury & Finance

975

“As a percentage of everything the government spends, the NHS is about 42-43%”
Conservative
Client Journalism NHS & Health Treasury & Finance

968

“[Rishi Sunak] provided that £450 billion of funding that kept people in work, kept businesses afloat”
Conservative
Covid Treasury & Finance

960

“Our low-tax approach… and make no mistake, we are cutting taxes”
Conservative Sunak
Additional Notes Prime Minister Treasury & Finance

954

“… national debt [is] on track to fall”
Conservative Sunak
Additional Notes Prime Minister Treasury & Finance

952

“[UK] debt is falling”
Conservative Sunak
Prime Minister Treasury & Finance

937

“It’s no wonder that Labour seems so relaxed about taxing meat”
Conservative
Additional Notes Treasury & Finance

930

“… Inflation is a tax, it is a tax that impacts the poorest people the most”
Conservative Sunak
Prime Minister Treasury & Finance

919

“Consultants, when they retire now at 65, will get a tax-free pension of £73,000 a year”
Conservative
NHS & Health Treasury & Finance

881

“The Labour Party talks about good use of taxpayers’ money, but what do we have from it? Plans for an unfunded, £28 billion spending spree. What would that do? Drive up borrowing and push up interest rates, adding £1,000 to everyone’s mortgage”
Conservative
Client Journalism Treasury & Finance

880

‎”We have provided record increases to the personal allowance, meaning that a person working full time on the minimum wage has seen a £1,000 reduction in their tax”
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

863

‎”Value for money is taken into account in all travel decisions”
  • Foreign Office spokesperson, as quoted in the Daily Mirror
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

860

‎”We are able to afford interventions to deal with, for instance, the cost of living, providing more than £3,300 for every single family in our United Kingdom”
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

858

‎”We have reduced the income tax and national insurance paid by someone on the average wage by about £1,100 a year”
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

839

‎”By 2027-28, headline debt levels are reduced by £53.7 billion”
  • Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Twitter
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

820

“The report seems to show that [Nadhim Zahawi] made some technical errors with his declarations..”
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

819

“The government is committed to halving inflation, reducing debt & growing the economy”
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

817

‎”My right hon. Friend has already addressed the matter in full”
Conservative Sunak
Treasury & Finance

816

‎”Halve inflation. Grow the economy. Reduce debt. Cut waiting lists. Stop the boats.”
Conservative
Additional Notes Broken Campaign Promise Treasury & Finance

809

‎Did you see the five promises I made to you last week? Halving inflation. Growing the economy. Reducing debt. Cutting NHS waiting lists. Stopping the boats. No ifs. No buts. Together, we will deliver.
Conservative
NHS & Health Treasury & Finance

808

‎”Halve inflation. Grow the economy. Reduce debt. Cut waiting lists. Stop the boats. Your priorities are my priorities.”
Conservative Sunak
Treasury & Finance

801

‎”If we matched, say to 11%, which is just above inflation right now, that would add about £1,000 to every household in the country.”
Conservative
NHS & Health Treasury & Finance

796

‎”What I’m not going to do is ask ordinary families up and down the country to pay an extra £1,000 a year to meet the pay demands of the union bosses”
Conservative Sunak
Client Journalism Treasury & Finance

793

‎”if everyone in the public sector had a pay rise in line with inflation, it would cost an extra £28 billion, an extra £1,000 per household”
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

790

‎”Mr Speaker, it’s the same old Labour ideas. More debt. More inflation. More strikes. More migration”
Conservative Sunak
Displaced People Treasury & Finance

779

‎”Let us start with a difficult message for the party opposite: you cannot borrow your way to growth”
Conservative
Treasury & Finance

771

‎”We will make this country a clean energy superpower”
Conservative Sunak
Climate Treasury & Finance

748

‎”[Kwazi Kwarteng is] an incredibly capable person.”
  • Greg Hands, International Trade Minister, Sky News
Conservative
Treasury & Finance
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