Jonathan Reynolds
We’ve fact checked Jonathan Reynolds three times. Since 2022, we’ve asked him to correct the record once.
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We’ve fact checked Jonathan Reynolds three times
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The threshold for a recall petition to succeed is 10% of voters, not 10,000
ten thousand constituents vote for it
Jonathan Reynolds, 12 June 2023
Universal Credit: Do politicians' claims about working more hours add up?
This morning, during her television appearance, the Secretary of State said that a person could make up for the Government’s £20 a week cut in universal credit by working just two extra hours a week. I am sure she is aware by now that she got that completely wrong: the taper rate would of course remove a proportion of those additional earnings, so the net earnings for those extra two hours would be far less than £20. May I therefore ask her if she now knows how many more hours a single parent working full time would have to work to make up for the money the Government is cutting? The figure is 10 extra hours a week, so the cut would force that person to work 50 hours a week in total to get what he or she is receiving now.
Jonathan Reynolds, 13 September 2021
How much of our energy comes from wind? MPs disagree
I would simply say that when we talk about this, whatever the personal positions that may come into it, we should not try to introduce personal facts, because some of the things said today are simply untrue. The figure for the contribution of UK wind to our electricity mix during the past 24 hours is 5%, not 1%.
Jonathan Reynolds, 18 January 2016
We’ve asked Jonathan Reynolds to correct the record once
It’s important that those making claims in public life correct their mistakes. We follow up on our fact checks to ask politicians and media organisations to issue corrections when they get things wrong.
We have been in touch with Jonathan Reynolds about one of his claims. He has yet to correct the record.
Jonathan Reynolds made an incorrect claim about the threshold a recall petition needs to succeed on 12 June 2023
It has been 381 days without Jonathan Reynolds correcting the record
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