IDS gets his sums wrong – by £1.85 BILLION

Yesterday The Daily Mail reported that IDS’s claim that “benefit tourism” would cost Britain £155m a year. Funnily enough though, there was no mention of the fact that he previously claimed that it would cost £2 BILLION. That means the figure he’s now arguing is “enormous” is a whopping 92% lower than his original guesstimate – £1.845 billion lower to be precise.

Lets take a look at that in chart form.

It’s enough to make you question what other sums this government have got disastrously wrong…