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12 October 2016

Prime Minister's Questions, factchecked

We factchecked whether cancer survival rates are at record levels, if pregnant women need passports to use the NHS, the number of workers employed by Japanese companies in the UK, the government's pol Read

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7 October 2016

BBC Question Time, factchecked

This week's panel included Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns MP, Labour's Chuka Umunna MP, leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood AM, UKIP's leader in the Welsh National Assembly Neil Hamilton AM, a Read

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30 September 2016

BBC Question Time, factchecked

This week's panel included Conservative international development secretary Priti Patel MP, Labour's shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon MP, Ukip's Steven Woolfe MEP, playwright and novelist Bonni Read

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23 September 2016

BBC Question Time, factchecked

This week's panel included Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Liz Kendall MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Norman Lamb MP and broadcaster and columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer. Read

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16 September 2016

BBC Question Time, factchecked

The Question Time panel included Anna Soubry MP, shadow chancellor John McDonnell MP, the SNP's justice spokesperson Joanna Cherry MP, the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts and Alastair Campbell. Read

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16 September 2016

Polls didn't show a consistent Labour lead

“We've been working, over the last year, to unite the party, and we were winning electorally and in the polls.” John McDonnell, 15 September 2016 “85 out of 89 polls … Read

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14 September 2016

Prime Minister's Questions, factchecked

Poor children do worse in areas that have grammar schools “The evidence, Mr Speaker, of the effects of selection is this. In Kent, which has a grammar school system, 27% … Read

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