There’s been a bit of a fuss over the claim in Lord Adonis’s growth report—repeated in a draft of Ed Miliband’s localism speech—that four-fifths of the private-sector jobs growth in the UK since 2010 has happened in London. The Prime Minister tweeted:
Labour get their facts wrong on jobs – again. How can they ever be trusted with the economy? http://t.co/zTZJVadFhQ #AdonisReview
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) July 1, 2014
And NIESR’s Jonathan Portes (who has form taking issue with how numbers on ‘new’ jobs numbers are used) said:
@eduardmead @bbcnickrobinson That said, Labour stat certainly wrong. Conservatives much closer, but not on basis of published ONS figures.
— Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) July 1, 2014
The figure in Adonis’s report was taken from the Centre for Cities’ City Outlook 2014 – it says that ‘since 2010, 79 per cent of the private-sector job growth has occurred in London’.
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