BBC Question Time, factchecked
This week's panel included Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Liz Kendall MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Norman Lamb MP and broadcaster and columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer. Read
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This week's panel included Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Liz Kendall MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Norman Lamb MP and broadcaster and columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer. Read
Health
We’ve looked into some of the elements included in the new junior doctors’ contract, including pay and working hours, and the junior doctors’ response. Read
The Question Time panel included Anna Soubry MP, shadow chancellor John McDonnell MP, the SNP's justice spokesperson Joanna Cherry MP, the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts and Alastair Campbell. Read
Why would a judge's finding that someone killed their child be kept secret from the jury trying his case? Read
Poor children do worse in areas that have grammar schools “The evidence, Mr Speaker, of the effects of selection is this. In Kent, which has a grammar school system, 27% … Read
Crime
26% of women aged 16-59 report having experienced some kind of domestic abuse as adults. 15% of men report the same. Read
Education
The evidence suggests that grammar schools weren't any better for overall social mobility in their 1950s/60s heyday than they are at the moment. Read
Prime Minister's Questions for the 7th of September 2016, factchecked Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Since 2010 the government has introduced a number of changes to the welfare system. We looked at how things have changed. Read
Immigration
Net migration estimates show a continuation of recent trends, with the change over last year almost five times smaller than the margin for error. Read
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