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Government Brexit fund pledges £1.6bn for councils after £15bn cuts since 2010
Theresa May’s Stronger Towns Fund represents a tenth of what councils lost from central government under austerity.
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The truth about MPs’ pay
MPs have been awarded another pay rise today, causing outrage among some commentators. It’s been widely reported that the politicians will get an increase of 2.7 per cent from April, while the staff who work for them will get a rise of only 1.5 per cent. This sounds unfair and ungenerous – but it’s not…
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Theresa May’s biggest Brexit u-turns
Mrs May is no stranger to dramatic shifts in policy – FactCheck takes a look at the most significant.
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Just three of England’s 39 police forces say they’ve never investigated a grooming gang
Nearly every police forces has investigated, or is investigating, a “grooming gang”, new FactCheck analysis can reveal.
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Conservatives cherry-pick home ownership stats
Home ownership rates have increased in recent years, but are still well below where they were 20 years ago.
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Are Labour inflating their membership figures?
Labour have been fighting off claims that they are losing huge numbers of members. The last time the party published official membership figures, for December 2017, they said they had a massive 564,000 members. But is that number trustworthy?
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Boris Johnson falsely claims he ‘didn’t say anything about Turkey’ in the referendum campaign
Boris Johnson, who was a key figurehead in the Vote Leave campaign, said: “I didn’t say anything about Turkey in the referendum… I didn’t say a thing about Turkey.” We’ve checked the record and we don’t think that’s true.
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Are we on the brink of a general election?
MPs will vote on the government’s future tonight.
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Is Labour the party of the working class?
The majority of Labour voters do not consider themselves working class.
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Corbyn’s misleading claims on crime and the Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn is in Wakefield to deliver his first major speech on Brexit of 2019. But he’s made some misleading claims along the way.
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Can we avoid paying the £39 billion Brexit divorce bill?
It’s hard to see how we could get out of paying up – even if there’s no deal.
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EU vs Fake News: The truth about Brussels’ fight against disinformation
The EU has declared war on fake news. But leaders admit the aim is to make sure “anti-democrats don’t win at the ballot boxes”.
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May’s misleading Brexit ‘backstop’ claim
Theresa May was defending her Brexit plans this morning. But she made a misleading claim in the process.
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The legal advice the government didn’t want you to see
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.
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Will we be worse off after Brexit?
“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…