From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
Europe
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
Europe
Pulling out of the European Union without triggering Article 50 would be illegal. Read
Europe
A two-year clock starts ticking as soon as the UK gives notice under Article 50 that it’s leaving the EU. Read
Immigration
Immigration to the UK rose considerably in 2004, and is now estimated at roughly record levels. Read
Immigration
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
Crime
New estimates have rated crimes by their severity, but they can’t tell us about crime trends over time. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Calculations by a housing charity for the number of under-18s and expecting mothers living in temporary accommodation stack up. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The UK is set to be the 18th fastest-growing of the ‘advanced economies’ in 2016, according to the IMF. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
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
Economy, Business & Finance
We've looked at the Labour and Conservative records on house building, the impact of the financial crisis and how house building measures affect the picture. Read
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