Georgina Lee
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FactCheck: Javid’s misleading claim about UK’s refugee policy
The UK is far from the most generous country overall.
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FactCheck: could new Covid variant make vaccines less effective? Could it be worse than Delta?
There’s a lot we still don’t know.
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FactCheck: Patel’s incorrect claim about cash to tackle violence against women
The Home Secretary said she’d tripled funding compared to “any other two-year period”.
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FactCheck: is second Covid jab safer for UK teenagers than in some other countries?
Children aged 16 and 17 will be offered a second dose following fresh advice from the JCVI.
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FactCheck: Johnson claims Labour’s Nandy ‘wanted to abolish’ army
The claim was ruled “inaccurate” by the press regulator in June.
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FactCheck: Sunak’s National Living Wage claim and Universal Credit changes
Once we account for tax and national insurance, the Living Wage rise is less generous than he suggested.
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FactCheck: business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng exaggerates UK offshore wind investment by £53bn
The true figure is less than half the amount he claimed.
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FactCheck: what’s happening with Covid vaccine boosters?
Scientists warn they may not be enough to stop further restrictions.
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FactCheck: Boris Johnson’s conference speech
Let’s give it the FactCheck treatment.
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FactCheck: Starmer claims Britain has worst Covid death toll in Europe
The claim doesn’t account for the size of each country’s population.
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FactCheck: confusion over Labour’s income tax position?
The Labour leader said ‘nothing is off the table’.
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FactCheck: Starmer’s claim about domestic abuse rates
Police records aren’t the best way to measure this change.
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FactCheck: Raab says workers better off by £4,000 a year under Conservatives
The figure doesn’t account for inflation.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s three claims about nurses in England
The claims are missing vital context.
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FactCheck Q&A: vaccinating healthy 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid
Millions of youngsters have already had the jab in other countries.
