Claim: The UK poverty rate is 23.2%, higher than countries including Spain, Greece Italy and Portugal.
Fact-check: The UK's poverty rate is around average for the EU - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. this compares two different measures of poverty. by one measure the uk poverty rate is estimated to be 23.2%, but on the comparable measure in this case it is around 17%, roughly the eu average.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2019-01-09T00:00:00