David Cameron was caught out last week when he falsely claimed in a Conservative Party political broadcast that the coalition was “paying down Britain’s debts” (the national debt has risen from £811.3bn to £1.11trn since he entered office). But what of his even more frequent boast to have reduced the deficit by “a quarter”? The Conservatives’ website states:
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