FactCheck

Theresa May was defending her Brexit plans this morning. But she made a misleading claim in the process.

Geoffrey Cox didn’t really tell us any new facts, but he has set out some of the unpalatable elements of Theresa May’s divorce plan in phrases that have been seized on by the government’s opponents.

“The analysis does not show that we will be poorer than the status quo today.” Theresa May, Prime Minister’s Questions, 28 November 2018 There was a ding-dong in parliament today after the government published a new Treasury analysis of the possible economic effects of Brexit. Theresa May insisted the forecast did not show that Britain…

The US President suggested that Mrs May’s proposed deal could prevent UK-US trade.

“We will take back control of our borders, by putting an end to the free movement of people once and for all. Instead of an immigration systems based on where a person comes from, we will build one based on the skills and talents a person has to offer” That’s what the Prime Minister wrote…

Let’s take a look at the statistics.

Theresa May has been defending her Brexit plan, after it was heavily criticised last week. FactCheck examines two of the main concerns. Could the UK really get “trapped” in a backstop?

Overnight polling from YouGov suggests people are generally negative about government negotiations with the EU so far.

Brexit-backing Labour MP Kate Hoey made three claims about the EU and trade. Two of them are wrong.

It’s been reported that six million jobs pay less than the “real” Living Wage.

Labour governments have tended to spend more on the health service than the Conservatives since 1979.

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.

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.

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.