Exclusive: ONS official’s remarks, not intended as comment on overall state of the economy, were later used by SunakThe UK’s statistics watchdog has closed an investigation into remarks made by an official about the economy “going gangbusters” that were cited by Rishi Sunak.It was looking into the comments made by chief economist of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) last month amid concerns that politicians could misuse economic data in the run-up to the election. Continue reading...