We do fact checks and explain news about UK politics, helping you understand key issues and claims.
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On Times Radio this morning, Labour’s shadow economic secretary to the Treasury, Tulip Siddiq, said “the government has actually increased taxes 25 times since the last election.” Later, at Prime … Read
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With the government’s Safety of Rwanda Bill continuing its passage in the House of Lords today, Full Fact looked into a claim that other countries were seeking to copy the … Read
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On Sky News this morning, Labour party chair and shadow women and equalities secretary Anneliese Dodds MP said: “We’ve already got 7.8 million people on the NHS waiting list”. However, … Read
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At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, Sir Keir Starmer told the Commons that Rishi Sunak is “Mr 25 tax rises”. This is a claim we’ve heard repeatedly from Labour in recent … Read
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At Prime Minister’s Questions today, we heard a familiar claim from Rishi Sunak. He said “since 2010 there are 1.7 million fewer people in poverty”. Mr Sunak has used this … Read
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Over the last couple of days, both the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the chancellor Jeremy Hunt have said that the average worker will take home £450 more a year … Read
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In a clip that has been widely reported in the media and shared on social media, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today gave a misleading summary of the industrial disputes … Read
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We’ve spotted more examples of a misleading claim about Labour’s immigration plans which we’ve written about many times before. A post by Jonathan Gullis MP, promoted as a political advert … Read
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During a debate on the government’s Safety of Rwanda Bill yesterday, the Conservative MP and former Deputy Prime Minister Thérèse Coffey said of Labour’s Yvette Cooper MP: “I was somewhat … Read
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In a joint letter to the Prime Minister resigning from their roles as deputy chairmen of the Conservative party, Lee Anderson MP and Brendan Clarke-Smith MP repeated the misleading claim … Read
