Labour burying bad news until after Local Council Elections
April 6, 2008
This wee story spotted via Peter Black AM’s blog … Andrew Grice writing in the Independent Newspaper on Labour’s crafty decision to delay publication of poverty statistics until after the Local Council Elections.Here’s an excerpt : “The Government has been accused of trying to bury bad news after delaying the publication of its annual poverty statistics until after the local elections next month.
The figures, normally issued in March, will be disclosed on 2 May, the day after local authority elections in England and Wales, The Independent can reveal. Many results, including the contest for London Mayor, will not be announced until 2 May and they are likely to dominate media coverage, swamping the poverty figures.
Independent experts expect the statistics to show Labour is in danger of missing its flagship target of halving child poverty by 2010 and abolish it by 2020″
Full story on the Independent newspaper’s website here
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