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Cost of living crisis rages on despite Tory stats twisting
'Several tons of salt' needed to accept ministers' claim that wages are outstripping inflation
Fiddling Tories were caught picking and choosing official statistics yesterday in a bid to dupe the public into believing that pay is on the up.
Downing Street faced a torrent of criticism after trying to dispel Labour's cost-of-living-crisis claims with dodgy figures showing that all but the top 10 per cent of earners had seen a real-terms increase in 2012/13.
It claimed that working families' pay rose a third faster than inflation of 2.4 per cent in the year up to April 2014.
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