Claim: The UK is going through the biggest squeeze on its living standards since the Napoleonic Wars.
Fact-check: Is wage growth at the same level as during the Napoleonic wars? - Full Fact
Verdict: wage growth between 2010 and 2020 will be the lowest it's been over any ten year period in peacetime since the napoleonic wars. experts say it was lower around both the first and second world wars. there's more than one way to measure living standards too.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2017-11-10T00:00:00