Brandon Lewis
We’ve fact checked Brandon Lewis four times.
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We’ve fact checked Brandon Lewis four times
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Brandon Lewis misleading to compare voter ID to picking up parcel or library book
I think the government was right to say that people having a bit of ID, the same as you’d have... to go to a Post Office and collect a parcel or take a book out from the library is not unreasonable, to just give that extra bit of protection to our democratic process.
Brandon Lewis, 12 January 2023
Government minister made misleading claim about employment figures
We're seeing more people in work even than we saw before Covid.
Brandon Lewis, 17 May 2022
Two UK schemes have resettled 11,000 Syrian refugees
“We as a country are doing one of the biggest programmes we have ever done, 23,000 refugees coming to this country. We are slightly ahead of the schedule that David Cameron set out [...] There are 23,000 Syrian refugees coming to this country, on top of refugees from elsewhere.”
Brandon Lewis, 22 February 2018
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