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The UK Statistics Authority has written to Kemi Badenoch today, following our fact check of her inaccurate claim that the total welfare bill is now higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”. We hope she will correct the record soon.

fullfact.orgStatistics watchdog challenges Badenoch over welfare claim after Full Fact intervention – Full FactThe UK Statistics Authority has called on the Conservatives to “clarify” the inaccurate claim in their Alternative King’s Speech

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Better odds on sub-zero temperatures in the UK tomorrow than Bad Enoch apologising or setting the record straight publicly. Shame she didn’t say it in parliament rather than just a Tory alternate Kings Speech doc - which will doubtless be corrected very quietly indeed!

Maybe Kemi is not a liar. Philosopher Harry Frankfurt noted in his 1986 essay that “The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care whether what they say is true or false”. It’s an analysis that explains much of what is wrong in contemporary politics.