{"id":16936,"date":"2022-11-18T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/18\/tory-mp-vicky-ford-challenged-on-uk-growth-claim\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T00:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:03:29","slug":"tory-mp-vicky-ford-challenged-on-uk-growth-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=16936","title":{"rendered":"Tory MP Vicky Ford challenged on UK growth claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Vicky Ford, Conservative MP for Chelmsford has claimed the UK had better economic growth since Covid-19 than countries including the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ms Ford was speaking on the BBC&#8217;s  Politics Live programme when she made the claim, which presenter Jo Coburn then challenged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Coburn referred to a chart that reflected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics, that showed the UK&#8217;s economic growth stood at -0.4%, compared with 4.2% for the US and 2.1% for Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63663830?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Vicky Ford, Conservative MP for Chelmsford has claimed the UK had better economic growth since Covid-19 than countries including the United States and Canada. Ms Ford was speaking on &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}