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News blog The Exposé has claimed there are 23.5 million unvaccinated people in England.

This is based on flawed maths and is too high. Depending on which population figure you use, the number of people unvaccinated in England could be 12.3 million or 19.5 million.

The two data sets

The Home Secretary Priti Patel recently tweeted a graph showing what appears to be a significant increase in police funding from 2015/16 to 2022/23

The amounts of money detailed in the graph don’t take into account inflation, reflecting the changing value of the pound.

Cash terms vs inflation

In Parliament, Conservative MP and trade envoy to Brazil Marco Longhi claimed the South American country produces a quarter of the world’s food

The most recent available data from the UN shows Brazil produced 10% of the world’s food by weight in 2019 and 4% by value in 2018.

0% production of evidence

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