From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
The front page of this morning's Express reports that we will soon see a house price surge. However when Full Fact looked closer at the sources for the story, we soon saw the picture was far less rosy. Read
As MPs head back to their constituencies for Christmas, we take a quick look at some of the progress made in promoting accurate political debate in our inaugural year. Read
Having been elected General Secretary of the UK's second largest trade union last month, Len McCluskey has wasted no time in creating a stir by this morning calling for strikes and demonstrations to combat Coalition cuts. But do the economics back up his claims over the budget deficit? Read
The UK's fall in international school league tables was widely noted in the press last week, however the trend was more severe in certain sources than elsewhere. Full Fact found that this owed much to a flawed take on the figures. Read
As the debate raged over rising tution fees, Labour Shadow Business Minister John Denham contrasted the Coalition cuts to university funding with "record" levels under Labour. When Full Fact examined the figures we found it wasn't quite as simple as that. Read
The News of the World reports that benefits cheats swindled each household out of £2,300 over the past ten years, conflating fraud and error—which, of course, cuts both ways. Read
As the Government prepares to unveil plans for cap on non-EU migrants, we research frequently cited by ministers as showing a third of skilled migrants take unskilled jobs is bordering on meaningless... Read
Chris Grayling says the Flexible New Deal has cost £31,284 for every person it got into a job—but can it really be that bad? Read
The welfare reform debate has seen a widely cited statistic of 70% of 4 million jobs created going to foreign workers. Yet when Full Fact took a closer look, there seemed to be a number of problems with such claims... Read
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Douglas Alexander has accused the Government of presenting a "distorted" account of Labour's record on the employment. As he tries to set the record straight we examine his claims. Read
