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Johnson and Patel’s claims about falling crime ‘misleading’, says UK watchdog

Head of watchdog writing to PM and home secretary about England and Wales data, which excludes fraud

The head of the official statistics watchdog has reprimanded Boris Johnson and the Home Office for incorrectly saying crime has fallen by 14%, when this excludes the fastest-rising category of crime.

Sir David Norgrove, the head of the UK Statistics Authority, said he would be writing to the offices of Johnson and Priti Patel, the home secretary, to highlight what he called a “misleading” use of statistics.

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