From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
Health
The £8 billion figure is totemic for the future of the NHS, but as the Nuffield Trust has explained, it is not extra money to pay for extra services. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Jeremy Corbyn claims child poverty went up by half a million under the last government. It's up by one measure, but down by another. Read
Education
We know that at the very least, costs for part-time nursery for the under 2s has been increasing—particularly in certain regions. Read
Crime
Just under half the cases won against the UK at the European Court of Human Rights have involved someone convicted or suspected of a criminal offence. Read
Immigration
Germany will end up accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees, both from Syria and the wider world, but 800,000 Syrians accepted to date is way off. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
George Osborne found £4.5 billion in savings to be made by the government, including asset sales. Do asset sales count as savings? Read
Education
School performance of disadvantaged pupils has, for the most part, been improving. The trend is less clear for the gap between these pupils and their peers. Read
Education
CIPD says 58.8% of graduates are in non-graduate roles, but this is based on an old survey. Read
Europe
The EU can't force Britain to take a "quota" of refugees from other EU countries. The UK can choose to opt in to any such EU plan. Read
Immigration
A number of outlets are claiming that the UK has taken in so few Syrian refugees that you could fit them all on a tube train. This is wrong. Read
