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The Daily Express have made several references to polls that seem to suggest a large proportion of the British public oppose UK membership in the European Union. To what extent can we trust these claims? Full Fact looked to see how the results of these surveys may have been taken out of context. Read
The latest welfare figures have again been subject to misinterpretation among certain newspapers. Yet the Daily Mail has gone further than most - suggesting 94 per cent on incapacity benefit can work. However the figure did not stand up to much scrutiny. Read
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson claimed last week that the number of people murdered in the capital had fallen by an "average" of 25 per cent. What does he mean by this, and is it accurate? Read
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
