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.

27 July 2018

What can Love Island tell us about survey design?

By Abbas Panjwani • 3 mins

ITV2's hit show Love Island might not be where you expect to find lessons about survey design - but Monday's lie detector test showed us the pitfalls of double-barrelled questioning. Read

Comment

25 July 2018

Economy, Business & Finance

Did the Conservatives refuse to support 6500 British shipbuilding jobs?

By Abbas Panjwani • 6 mins

Estimates for the economic and jobs impact of keeping a shipbuilding contract in the UK make assumptions that are unevidenced. Read

Fact checks

19 July 2018

Europe

These poll figures are for leave voters - not "most of the nation"

By Abbas Panjwani • 5 mins

More adults in Great Britain, but not a majority, are dissatisfied than satisfied with the Chequers deal according to one survey. Read

Fact checks

19 July 2018

Europe

This claim about the £2,000 cost of a hard Brexit comes from a typo

By Abbas Panjwani • 3 mins

A consultancy estimated a “hard Brexit” scenario could increase average household cost by £961, not £1,961 as claimed. Read

Fact checks

13 July 2018

Europe

Does most UK trade happen outside of the EU and trade agreements?

By Abbas Panjwani • 3 mins

Most of the UK’s trade is with countries we have EU trade agreements with, not under WTO rules. Read

Fact checks

11 July 2018

Economy, Business & Finance

The government hasn’t u-turned on energy price caps

By Tom Phillips • 4 mins

The government did introduce legislation to allow for temporary energy tariff caps, as promised in the 2017 Conservative manifesto. Read

Fact checks

9 July 2018

Economy, Business & Finance

Are more people unable to get full-time work?

By Abbas Panjwani • 3 mins

The number of UK part-time workers unable to find full-time work is relatively high, but the number of people overall who want more work is low. Read

Fact checks

6 July 2018

Health

Satisfaction with the NHS peaked in 2010

By Abbas Panjwani • 2 mins

Labour increased health spending from 1997-2010 by almost record levels. Satisfaction with the NHS peaked at 70% in 2010. It has since fallen to 57%. Read