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Lies, Falsehoods and Misrepresentations from Boris Johnson to Rishi Sunak.

“It was this Conservative government that tackled the debt and the deficit left by the last Labour government”

Boris Johnson, Tory conference speech

1 October 2019

Facts

Boris Johnson had a point about the deficit, which had come down from £147.3 billion in 2010 to £32.3 billion in 2018. But UK debt currently stands at around £1.8 trillion, almost double what it was in 2010.

Verdict

Johnson misled Conservative Party conference.

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