Economy, Business & Finance
Corporation tax: UK vs USA
US corporation tax rates are about 39%, on average according to the OECD, so about twice that paid in the UK. Read
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Europe
About 1 in 7 German cars are sold in the UK
Germany sells about 14% of all the passenger cars it makes domestically to the UK, a little over one in seven. (That makes up about 18% of the passenger cars it exports, a little under one in five). Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Ethnic diversity on company boards
People from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are underrepresented on FTSE 150 company boards. Read
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Immigration
Immigration and unemployment in the UK
It’s correct that there were about 1.7 million unemployed people in the UK at the last count, in July-September 2016. Read
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Europe
False claims, forecasts, and the EU Referendum
Campaigners on both sides of the EU referendum made false claims, or predicted things that turned out to be wrong. Sometimes they made false claims about the false claims made by each other. Read
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Immigration
A third of babies have at least one parent born outside the UK
It’s true that about a third of children born in England and Wales have one or more parents who were born outside country, although you probably wouldn’t call all those parents ‘foreign’. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Poverty: up or down?
About 2.7 million fewer children were living in absolute poverty by the end of the last Labour government, or 2.1 million fewer if you take housing costs into account. Read
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Health
Will you have to prove you need to see your GP?
About 180 GP surgeries are using initial telephone consultations (telephone triage) systematically to manage high demand for their services (out of about 7,700 practices in England). Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Brexit and household incomes
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects national income in 2020/21 to be about £50 billion lower than it would have been, had the UK voted to remain in the EU. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Germans are more productive than us, work less, and earn more
Yep, it’s true. Read
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