Claim: Austerity has caused the death of 130,000 people in Britain.
Fact-check: These 130,000 deaths cannot be explicitly linked to austerity - Full Fact
Verdict: the report that the 130,000 figure comes from does not explicitly link this number to austerity, and there's no way to know how much this was a factor.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Rachael Krishna
Date published: 2019-10-10T00:00:00