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Kate Hoey’s claims about the EU
Brexit-backing Labour MP Kate Hoey made three claims about the EU and trade. Two of them are wrong.
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Major new Brexit poll shows voters swinging towards Remain
Most UK voters would vote Remain if the EU referendum were held again, according to a major new poll from Channel 4 and Survation. Some 54 per cent of people said they would stay in the EU if the 2016 referendum were held tomorrow – when those who refused to vote or answered “don’t know”…
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How many people earn less than the Living Wage?
It’s been reported that six million jobs pay less than the “real” Living Wage.
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Have the Conservatives “nurtured” the NHS?
Labour governments have tended to spend more on the health service than the Conservatives since 1979.
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Has Philip Hammond smashed his deficit target?
When he took office in 2010, George Osborne declared that the government’s aim was to eliminate the day-to-day budget deficit by 2015.
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Dozens of MPs flown to Riyadh in Saudi charm offensive
Saudi Arabia has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds paying for British MPs to visit the country. FactCheck found that at least 33 MPs have been on Saudi-funded trips to the Kingdom, since its troops entered Yemen in 2015. On most occasions, all expenses were covered.
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Corbyn cherry-picks hate crime stats
Jeremy Corbyn tweeted a graph showing hate crime on the rise. But more reliable data suggests hate crimes have fallen by 40 per cent in ten years.
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Men are more likely to be raped than be falsely accused of rape
According to the best data available, a man is 230 times more likely to be raped than to be falsely accused of rape.
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Conservatives double down on dodgy education claim
Schools rated “outstanding” are not routinely re-inspected, which means that some schools have gone for many years without having their status challenged.
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Theresa May’s claims about Labour and the Conservatives
“The deficit is down by four-fifths” This is similar to a claim Theresa May made in 2017, when she said that since the Conservatives took office in 2010, “the deficit [had] fallen by three quarters as a share of GDP.” In her speech this week, the Prime Minister wasn’t quite so specific, but we’ll assume…
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Liz Truss said the government are not making cuts to councils. Here’s the truth.
The main public spending watchdogs say the government is still cutting the money it gives to councils. And figures from the Treasury suggest real-terms reductions in councils’ overall spending power will continue until 2020.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s housing claims
The Labour leader suggested the government had announced a cut in housing funding.
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Russia is spreading discredited theories about the Salisbury attack
Some of the points being raised by official Russian spokesmen are theories that have already been debunked.
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Conservatives not telling the whole story on workers’ pay
The Conservatives tweeted about “better pay”. But they didn’t mention that real wages are lower now than in 2010.
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Has Jeremy Corbyn ever voted with the Conservatives in Parliament?
We’ve found seven examples of Mr Corbyn voting with the majority of Conservatives and against the majority of Labour MPs.
