Europe
Following up our answers on the Jeremy Vine show
Here are the full facts and figures answering the questions put to Joe and Will on BBC Radio 2 today. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Factcheck: Is child poverty down?
One claim from today's Prime Minister's Questions drew particular criticism this afternoon: "child poverty is down"— David Cameron In fact, many of the responses on Twitter claimed the exact opposite. … Read
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Europe
Factcheck: Did George Osborne halve the UK's EU bill?
Has Britain's £1.7bn additional contribution to the EU budget been 'halved', or were we always due a rebate? Read
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Europe
Why the UK is being asked to pay £1.7 billion to the EU
The European Commission has asked the UK to contribute an extra £1.7 billion to its budget by 1 December. The Prime Minister's words to MPs this week were defiant: "Britain … Read
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Education
Free schools - still too early to say if they're better or worse than the rest
The Mirror and Independent yesterday reported on new figures compiled by the Labour party, which the Mirror claimed show free schools to be "an expensive flop". Labour's analysis looks at … Read
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Immigration
Factcheck: One million more migrants expected to come to London by 2030
"British politicians need to be bolder in confronting some of the myths about immigration". So said the Times (£) last week in a leader article calling for politicians to confront … Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Factcheck: The minimum wage has not been going up in real terms
"the minimum wage under this Government is going up, and going up in real terms" David Cameron, Prime Minister's Questions, 15 October 2014 Amidst yesterday's furore over comments made by … Read
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5 key factchecks from David Cameron's Conservative party conference speech
Here is our take on the key claims made by the Prime Minister today as he addressed his party conference. 1. Three million people have been taken out of income … Read
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Factchecking Ed Miliband's Conference speech
Today we teamed up with Sky News to live-factcheck Ed Miliband's leader speech to the Labour Party conference both on our Twitter feed, theirs and in the studio. Here is … Read
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7 key factchecks from Nigel Farage's UKIP conference speech
Nigel Farage addressed the UKIP Party Conference this afternoon. Here's our round-up of the key claims: 1. [People are saying] we're taking home less money than we were ten years … Read
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