Sarah Champion MP
We’ve fact checked Sarah Champion twice. Join others in her constituency of Rotherham to ask her to stand up for honesty in public life.
Your trust should be earned. Any MP making serious claims in public debate should be prepared to get their facts right, back up what they say with evidence and correct their mistakes.
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We’ve fact checked Sarah Champion twice
Full Fact scrutinises claims made by politicians on all sides of political debate. We prioritise claims that have the potential to cause most harm.
Our team isn’t able to monitor and fact check all claims made by every politician, so this list isn’t exhaustive. It isn’t accurate to use these examples to draw comparisons about the overall behaviour of individual MPs or political parties.
Many children have been the victims of grooming gangs, but there’s no evidence for a figure of one million
A million children have been gang raped and groomed in the UK.
Sarah Champion, 5 February 2015
How many children have been the victims of grooming gangs in the UK?
MORE THAN ONE MILLION CHILD VICTIM
Sarah Champion, 5 February 2015
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