IDS says unemployment is "falling dramatically"- he's wrong

Great spot by Daniel Knowles from IDS’s interview on Sky News earlier:

Iain Duncan Smith tells Sky the UK has seen “unemployment falling dramatically”. Unemployment May 2010: 7.8%. Feb 2013: 7.7%

— Daniel Knowles (@dlknowles) June 6, 2013

Lets see that as a bar chart:

Dramatic, eh?

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