Liam Fox
We’ve fact checked Liam Fox three times.
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We’ve fact checked Liam Fox three times
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73,444 deaths registered in 2020 in England and Wales had Covid-19 as the underlying cause
We measure excess death rates, those who died within 28 days of a positive test and those who have covid on their death certificate, but that does not tell us what we really need to know: who actually died of covid as the primary infection, who died with covid—died of something else but was diagnosed as being positively exposed—and who died as a result of covid, either because of the lack of access to healthcare during the lockdown or because of the diminution of healthcare capacity because of high infection rates.
Liam Fox, 12 January 2021
There are 1.1 million more homes in England since 2010
“And the good news is that last year, 2017, we built more homes, 1.1 million, than in all but one of the last 30 years.”
Liam Fox, 8 March 2018
Does the EU say it's safe to eat chicken rinsed in chlorine?
"There's no food safety issue with chlorine-washed goods because the EU themselves say that's perfectly safe,"
Liam Fox, 26 July 2017
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