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A YouGov poll did not forecast Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn losing his Islington North seat to the Lib Dems after 36 years. Read
A survey does not show that four in ten dads would not see their children on Father’s Day, as newspapers and Fathers4Justice have claimed. Read
A tweet supposedly from the MP saying he wouldn’t be caught dead in a yellow rosette seems to have been faked. Read
The ‘Imperial March’ was not played for Donald Trump during his UK state visit. Read
The quote appears to have been coined by a poet. It has since been attributed to Mrs Thatcher, but we don’t know whether she ever quoted it. Read
A think tank ranked the UK third in the world for “military might” but this isn’t the only way to measure military strength. Read
58% of UK adults would be “very comfortable” with a female head of government, and a further 30% would be “fairly comfortable” Read
The figures quoted in the meme are mostly correct, though they date from the late 2000s when Mrs May was an opposition MP. Read
Fracking is causing lots of micro-earthquakes, most of which are at a level that can’t be felt. In the UK there are thousands of such earthquakes each year. Read
There’s more to the claim that 100 companies cause 71% of emissions. Read
