Caroline Lucas MP
We’ve fact checked Caroline Lucas twice. Join others in her constituency of Brighton, Pavilion 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 Caroline Lucas 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.
You usually need to earn £18,600 a year to bring a non-EU partner to the UK
“One of the very unfair things about our current system is, for example, if you want to marry and bring in someone from a country outside of the EU, you have to have a salary of over £18,600…. 47% of the population are not going to earn enough money to be able to bring in a wife or a husband from a country outside of the EU.”
Caroline Lucas, 26 April 2018
Do 15% of people take 70% of flights?
“An estimated 70 per cent of all flights in 2013 were taken by just 15 per cent of the population, with 57 per cent of the population taking no flights abroad”
Caroline Lucas, 19 October 2016
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