Explainers and other analysis to deal with misunderstood topics and translate complexity into clarity.
Question Time was in Bury St Edmunds this week. We factchecked immigration law for Commonwealth citizens, and for non-EEA partners, what was known about Windrush in 2014, and economic growth in Asia. Read
Europe
The EU’s customs union was first established in 1968 by the six founding member states of the current EU (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands). Read
Question Time was in Chesterfield this week. We factchecked the net migration target, how many stop and searches are knife-related, and result in arrests, and primary school children carrying drugs. Read
Crime
In the year to September 2017, there were just under 37,500 recorded offences involving the use of a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales. Read
Question Time was in Liverpool this week. We factchecked the role parliament plays in troop deployment, and the results of a poll of Labour party members on antisemitism in the party. Read
Crime
The number of police officers has dropped by 20,600 since 2010. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
We look at the tax policies announced over the last eight years, and the impacts they've had. Read
We factchecked how young people voted in the EU referendum, young trans people who have attempted suicide, earnings and life expectancy, and the legal age for buying a house and getting married. Read
We factchecked claims on political party donations, the size of the UK economy and the Brexit divorce bill. We’ll be publishing a further piece factchecking Keir Starmer’s claims about lorries at Dove Read
We looked at claims on: house building, the social housing sector, the steel industry and women in engineering. Read
Fact checking claims made by politicians, public figures and viral online content can give you the full picture backed by the evidence.
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