Fact checker (former)
The BBC only cited the YouGov poll showing 51% of people though Boris Johnson won the ITV leaders debate, because it was the only poll conducted in a way to produce meaningful results. Read
Funding from local authorities in England (excluding London) is down 43%, and this excludes money from central government which has not seen such large falls. Read
83.6% of patients attending A&E departments in England were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. That’s the lowest level on record, going back to 2010. Read
That data shows Scottish youth unemployment has fallen. But official data shows it has increased in Scotland over the last year. Read
You can’t work out the cost of a manifesto which hasn’t been published yet. And it’s flawed to assume all income tax payers have the same tax burden. Read
Europe
The UK and EU’s mutually agreed intention is that the EU courts would only be the ultimate arbiter of disputes which relate to the interpretation of EU law. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The recommendation to raise the pension age to 75 comes from the Centre for Social Justice think tank. There’s no evidence that it’s Conservative Party policy. Read
Europe
The calculation is a fair assessment of the best available forecasts. But those forecasts themselves contain a high degree of uncertainty. Read
A Lib Dem leaflet edited a Guardian headline, which paraphrased the words of Jo Swinson, to make it look like the Guardian said it directly. Read
Because of confidence intervals in the data, it’s very hard to tell which is actually the happiest place in the UK. Read
