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Originally Posted by denphone
You do have to prove a lie and and that is going to be nigh on impossible to do in this case in a court of law.
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I think one aspect is that he was told on multiple occasions by the Office for National Statistics to stop using that figure but he continued to do so. As a public servant, I guess that's the equivalent of someone in your compliance department telling you to stop doing something that's wrong and you continue doing so.
With MPs' expenses, Tony Blair's WMD Iraq situation, investigations into Islamohobia and anti-Semitsim in the two main parties and the Aaron Banks-Nigel Farage financial investigations, UK politics can only benefit from a successful prosecution here.