Esther McVey MP
We’ve fact checked Esther McVey five times. Join others in her constituency of Tatton 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.
When politicians fall short, we can demand better. Join us and take action for higher standards in public life now.
We’ve fact checked Esther McVey five times
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.
A surgeon made several incorrect claims about Covid-19 vaccine on GB News
If you look at the UK safety agency data, there’s some incredible stuff coming out, which shows that if you’re double vaccinated and boosted, you’re more likely to get infected than [un]vaccinated [people]
Esther McVey, 10 February 2022
Was foreign aid money spent on an airport that doesn’t run flights?
“We know airports have been built [using foreign aid] and actually the runways are in the wrong direction because of the winds… it’s in one of the continents abroad. We know we’ve got that airport where we can’t take off and land because of the winds, the cross winds there.”
Esther McVey, 11 June 2019
Counting Esther McVey’s record on employment
“We’ve got three and a half million more people back into work, that’s 1,000 more people each and every day when I was there [in the DWP]. And, I created something known as Disability Confident to look after disabled people and help them into work and now we’ve got nearly a million more disabled people into work.”
Esther McVey, 3 June 2019
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