Lucy Powell MP
We’ve fact checked Lucy Powell four times. Join others in her constituency of Manchester Central 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 Lucy Powell four 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.
What's happening to social mobility?
“In their State of the Nation report her government’s Social Mobility Commission today issued a damning verdict on progress. Things are getting worse. They concluded that the key drivers of social mobility—quality in early education, narrowing the educational attainment gap, and access to work and housing—are all going backwards under her watch.”
Lucy Powell, 16 November 2016
Few pupils are both at grammar schools and on free school meals
“Just one in every thousand pupils is a child on free school meals in a grammar school”
Lucy Powell, 19 October 2016
Are more teachers quitting the profession than entering it?
"…record numbers of teachers are quitting the profession—50,000 this year, more than actually entered the profession."
Lucy Powell, 14 December 2015
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