Unevidenced tweet about People’s Vote crowd size spreads to Facebook
German TV did not say there were 2.2 million people, and the number was most likely in the low hundreds of thousands. Read
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Joël Reland
Fact checker (former)
Joël joined Full Fact in 2017 as an intern. He researched and wrote fact checks. He previously worked for Policy in Practice, analysing the impact of the transition to Universal Credit on local authorities, and for the polling and research consultancy Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. He has a BA in History from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in International Political Theory from the University of Edinburgh.
Crime
Poll about support for violence against MPs is flawed
The survey asked people if they would accept the risk of violence against MPs for their preferred Brexit outcome. Read
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Europe
No evidence that People’s Vote march had over two million people
There’s no evidence that Sky News and German TV made such estimates, as has been claimed. Read
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Crime
Voter ID scheme: far more turned away than convicted of electoral fraud
740 people did not vote due to having incorrect ID in voter ID trials in 2019. 181 people have been accused of impersonating someone else at a polling station since 2010. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Viral post about Conservatives’ record in government gets lots of things wrong
It incorrectly claims that child poverty is up 50%, crime is up 30%, and public sector pay is down 15%. Read
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How long does the average government last?
Since WWII, the mean length of a government is 3.8 years, and the median length is 4.1 years. Read
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Fake Boris Johnson quote spreads on Facebook
Boris Johnson did not say "we have wiped out the national debt". He did say the Conservatives had tackled the debt and deficit. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Claim about UK wealth and poverty is flawed
The UK is the sixth- or ninth-richest country in terms of GDP, and the 20th- or 27th-richest in terms of GDP per capita. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
This quote attributed to Boris Johnson is not real
Boris Johnson did not say "we have wiped out the national debt". He did say the Conservatives had tackled the debt and deficit. Read
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EU staff don’t lose their pensions for criticising the EU
A viral post falsely claims senior EU employees don’t criticise the EU because they’d lose their pensions. Read
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