World Economic Forum 'rigged data' to make Brexit look like a failure

 A major international financial body has been accused of rigging data in order to make Brexit seem like a failure. 

 

Klaus Schwab, 87, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is alleged to have asked staff to lower the UK's standing in a table ranking countries' economic productivity, the Financial Times reported.  

 

Published annually, the WEF's 2017/2018 Global Competitiveness Report should have shown the UK jumping from seventh to forth due to a change in how the data was presented, according to a leak published by Swiss newpaper SonntagsZeitung.

 

But instead the final table showed Britain falling one position to eight place. 

 

'Brexit... will by definition weaken the UK's markets component,' the report said. 

 

It is alleged the reason for the supposed revised ranking was a direct intervention from Mr Schwab. 

 

The Swiss newspaper reported that he wrote to staff to say that the UK 'must not see any improvement' as such results would be 'exploited by the Brexit camp' to claim the UK's departure from the EU was a success. 

 

The World Economic Forum is an international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Geneva, Switzerland, which hosts the annual 'Davos' summit which attracts high-profile figures from the world of politics, business and showbusiness each year. 

 

It was founded in January 1971 by Mr Schwab, initially as the European Management Forum, before being rebranded as the WEF in 1987. 

 

 

 

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