At PMQs on 17 June, Johnson was caught out in two lies:1. He said that absolute poverty and relative poverty have both declined under this Government.2. He also said that there are 400,000 fewer families living in poverty now than there were in 2010.The Director of Evidence for the Children's Commissioner for England has carried out a fact check on these claims and shown them to be false.(In addition, Keir Starmer said at the same discussion that an additional 600,000 children are now living in relative poverty compared with 2012 and that the total number of children in poverty is projected to rise to 5.2 million by 2022. Both these claims were found to be correct.)Jackass 0, Truth 2.https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/2020/06/22/fact-checking-claims-about-child-poverty/
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