Ed Miliband demands Prime Minister returns to Parliament to correct inaccurate statistics  

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, has written to David Cameron to demand that he returns to the House of Commons to correct inaccurate statistics that the Prime Minister used at PMQs yesterday. The letter from Ed Miliband MP to David Cameron is below: Dear Prime Minister, Yesterday, in response to me at Prime Minister’s Questions, you said that “since the election there are 500,000 more jobs in the private sector. There are more people—300,000 more people—in work than there were a year ago” (Hansard, 14 September 2011, column 1028). This answer is inaccurate. Between June 2010 and June 2011 the Office of National Statistics has confirmed that private sector employment increased by only 264,000 and that net employment increased by just 24,000. The only way it is possible to claim 500,000 extra private sector jobs is by including jobs created between 1 April and 30 June...