David Cameron is a liar
Chris Grayling is a liarTories accused of fiddling violent crime statistics
The Conservatives were accused of fiddling statistics today after they claimed that violent crime had soared under Labour.
Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, has sent out press releases to every Tory constituency purporting to show how "violent attacks" have jumped in their area in the last decade.
David Cameron has also quoted what he says is a significant increase in violent crime – particularly gun and knife crime – to justify categorising Britain as a "broken society", one of the key catchphrases of his pre-election campaign.
Both politicians were accused today of deliberately misleading the public, after it emerged that they had failed to mention that the way violent crime is recorded was changed in 2002, invalidating comparisons before and after that date.
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The Conservatives were accused of fiddling statistics today after they claimed that violent crime had soared under Labour.
I have no love for Cameron but violent crime has jumped under Labour. It's just that Labour have a most creative system of accounting.
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