Thérèse Coffey did not say starving people were not her concern
The fabricated quote appears to refer to an interview she gave to Sky News where she was asked about Mercy Baguma. 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
£1.5bn GDP boost from UK-Japan trade deal is not on top of existing EU-Japan deal benefits
The UK currently trades with Japan under an EU trade agreement. The economic benefits of the new UK-Japan deal are relative to having no agreement, not to trading under the existing agreement. Read
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Health
Advice to clinically extremely vulnerable people varies by local lockdown area
Shielding for the clinically extremely vulnerable has been paused in the UK. That goes for most local lockdown areas, but not Leicester and Blackburn. Read
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Health
Claims of pandemic fall in child anxiety may not apply across the whole country
A study which found that students’ anxiety levels were lower during the pandemic than in October 2019 was conducted among year 9 students in the south west of England. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Comparing tax dodging and benefits for people seeking asylum
MP Zarah Sultana claimed that the super-rich and large corporations dodge £90 billion in tax every year. This is based on an estimate for the tax gap which is much higher than the official figure. Read
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Health
Matt Hancock misstates the proportion of Test and Trace contacts being reached
Matt Hancock misspoke saying that 79.7% of close contacts of infected people are being reached by test and trace. Read
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You were more likely to catch Covid-19 in Spain than the UK in late July.
A viral Facebook post claims Spain had a much lower Covid-19 death toll than the UK at the end of July. That’s correct but isn’t the best way to compare the risk of getting Covid-19 in each country. Read
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Health
Why this poll gives a misleading view on how many people the public think Covid-19 has killed
By using a mean average, the results overstated what the average Brit thinks the death rate has been. Read
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Health
Viral Facebook post incorrectly claims that a list of PPE contracts are all unfulfilled
PPE procurement is under scrutiny but claims that all these contracts were unfulfilled is not evidenced. Read
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