Economy, Business & Finance
Keir Starmer’s GMB interview: fact checked
The Labour leader made claims about the UK’s economic growth and fraud during the pandemic. Read
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Abbas Panjwani
Fact Checker (former)
Abbas joined Full Fact in 2018. Before this, he worked as a social researcher, collecting quantitative and qualitative research to help inform policy development and evaluation for government departments and other public bodies. Most recently he worked as research manager at Ofgem, Great Britain’s energy regulator, and has also worked on projects for BIS, the Home Office and the Competition and Markets Authority.
Economy, Business & Finance
Boris Johnson’s GMB interview: fact checked
The Prime Minister made claims about the UK’s economic growth, council tax, and his record on bus passes while Mayor of London. Read
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High reported Covid-19 deaths due to Easter holiday backlog
No deaths were reported over the Easter bank holiday weekend, leading to a spike in reports in the following days. The actual number of Covid-19 deaths occurring is falling. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Boris Johnson makes false employment claim for ninth time in Parliament
The PM claimed there are more people in work than there were before the pandemic. This figure only counts employees and not the self-employed. In total there are 600,000 fewer people in work. Read
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Health
Number of death certificates with only Covid-19 is a bad estimate of the death toll
To the end of 2021, over 150,000 deaths in the UK had been registered with Covid-19 as the underlying cause. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Thérèse Coffey wrong to claim employment is up over the pandemic
Government ministers have repeatedly claimed employment is higher than pre-pandemic levels, when it is not. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Why Rishi Sunak’s wife’s tax status isn’t a direct consequence of her citizenship
Ms Murty uses her non-domiciled status to not pay UK tax on foreign income, but this is an active choice, and not a direct consequence of her Indian citizenship. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Keir Starmer wrong to suggest taxes aren’t rising on stocks and shares
While income from stocks and shares isn’t subject to National Insurance, dividend income is subject to dividend tax which is increasing by the same amount. Read
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Claims about German Test and Trace costs completely wrong
The costs of German and UK Covid-19 testing and tracing programmes cannot be easily compared. Read
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Asda’s milk is vegetarian
Claims that Asda’s non-organic milk is not vegetarian are false and have been circulating since at least 2016. Read
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