Claim: Austerity is to blame for 130,000 preventable deaths in the UK.
Fact-check: We can't explicitly link 130,000 preventable deaths to austerity - Full Fact
Verdict: a think tank estimated that 130,000 deaths due to preventable risk factors wouldn't have occurred in england if pre-2012 trends had continued between 2012 and 2017. it didn't directly attribute this to austerity. it said that while spending reductions to public services were part of the reason for this, wider policy issues were also important.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2019-06-14T00:00:00