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Health
It’s been falsely claimed on social media that the retailer has been ‘given’ taxpayer funded Covid-19 tests to sell back to the public. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Government ministers have repeatedly claimed employment is higher than pre-pandemic levels, when it is not. Read
Health
Roughly 99.76% of the population of the UK have not died with Covid as the underlying cause, which is another way of saying that about 0.24% have. Read
Claims on Twitter and Facebook say that an elderly man in a London borough was told by his council he could be forced to take in a Ukrainian family. Read
The post also compares Germany’s maximum state pension to the UK’s. Germany’s state pensions are difficult to compare to ours as theirs are based on income whilst the UK’s isn’t. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Labour’s estimates do not include rises in wages or benefits, and contain several unreliable assumptions. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Ms Murty uses her non-domiciled status to not pay UK tax on foreign income, but this is an active choice, and not a direct consequence of her Indian citizenship. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
While income from stocks and shares isn’t subject to National Insurance, dividend income is subject to dividend tax which is increasing by the same amount. Read
Health
Surveys on the prevalence of long Covid did not measure the difference between groups of people based on when they caught Covid in the first place, nor necessarily based on when they experienced long Read
Immigration
Research indicates that the majority of people crossing the Channel go on to be granted asylum, but the full picture is not covered by official statistics. Read
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