Joël Reland

Fact checker (former)

Joël joined Full Fact in 2017 as an intern. He researched and wrote fact checks. He previously worked for Policy in Practice, analysing the impact of the transition to Universal Credit on local authorities, and for the polling and research consultancy Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. He has a BA in History from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in International Political Theory from the University of Edinburgh.

26 November 2019

Twitter polls are not accurate opinion polls

The BBC only cited the YouGov poll showing 51% of people though Boris Johnson won the ITV leaders debate, because it was the only poll conducted in a way to produce meaningful results.

20 November 2019

Public spending on buses not down by half in a decade

Funding from local authorities in England (excluding London) is down 43%, and this excludes money from central government which has not seen such large falls.

18 November 2019

A&E waiting times have hit their worst levels on record

83.6% of patients attending A&E departments in England were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. That’s the lowest level on record, going back to 2010.

15 November 2019

Scottish government uses non-official data on youth unemployment

That data shows Scottish youth unemployment has fallen. But official data shows it has increased in Scotland over the last year.

12 November 2019

Another flawed “cost of Corbyn” figure from the Conservatives

You can’t work out the cost of a manifesto which hasn’t been published yet. And it’s flawed to assume all income tax payers have the same tax burden.

8 November 2019

No indication that the European Court of Justice would be the arbiter of all disputes in a future UK-EU trade agreement

The UK and EU’s mutually agreed intention is that the EU courts would only be the ultimate arbiter of disputes which relate to the interpretation of EU law.

7 November 2019

John McDonnell repeats misleading claim about Conservative pension age plans

The recommendation to raise the pension age to 75 comes from the Centre for Social Justice think tank. There’s no evidence that it’s Conservative Party policy.