Claim: Government asset sales are a form of saving.
Fact-check: Do asset sales save the government money? - Full Fact
Verdict: while asset sales can reduce the reported deficit in the short run, they won't have a significant effect in the longer term: the government can only sell an asset once.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sam Ashworth-Hayes
Date published: 2015-09-09T00:00:00