UK Statistics Authority rules that PM misled public with claim of extra £450m for local forcesTheresa May has been officially rebuked for misleading MPs and the public over false claims that the government is providing an extra £450m in funding to local police forces in 2018/19.
The chair of the UK Statistics Authority,Sir David Norgrove, ruled on Tuesday that the claim made by May repeatedly at prime minister’s questions final month “could absorb led the public to conclude incorrectly” that the government was providing an extra £450m for police spending over the next financial year.
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Source: guardian.co.uk