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Johnson lied about Britain’s employment figures – again

The PM said there are more people on the payroll than pre-pandemic. That is not true.

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
2022-02-03 14:44
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Boris Johnson has once more claimed – falsely – that there are more people on the UK payroll than before the Covid pandemic began

At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Johnson said: “There are 420,000 more on the payroll than there were before the pandemic began, because we have had the fastest exit from covid of any European economy, because we had the fastest vaccine and booster roll-out.”

He has made a similar claim numerous times before, including in an interview with Sky News in January.

But the figure has been roundly discredited, with fact-checkers Full Fact pointing out that the 420,000 number is wrong – because it doesn’t people who are self-employed.

In reality, the total number of people in employment – including the self-employed – is around 600,000 lower than the level just prior to the pandemic, according to the ONS.

Boris Johnson repeats the debunked claim that more people are in work than before the pandemic – why doesn't the speaker intervene? https://t.co/WGnxwEmxau pic.twitter.com/Req3DddrI0

— Henry Mance (@henrymance) February 2, 2022

The number of people on the payroll has gone from about 33.1 million between December 2019 and February 2020 to 32.5 million in the latest figures from September to November 2021.

The proportion of working-age people in employment is also lower than it was at the start of 2020, falling from 76.6 per cent to 75.5 per cent. 

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The Ministerial Code states: “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity. 

“Ministers who knowingly mislead parliament will be expected to offer their resignation to the prime minister.”

Full Fact said they had contacted the prime minister, cabinet secretary and Downing Street as many as six times asking Johnson to correct the official record – but have seen their requests fall on deaf ears.

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