Brandon Lewis MP
We’ve fact checked Brandon Lewis four times. Since 2022, we’ve asked him to correct the record twice. Join others in his constituency of Great Yarmouth to ask him 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 Brandon Lewis 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.
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
We’ve asked Brandon Lewis to correct the record twice
It’s important that those making claims in public life correct their mistakes. We follow up on our fact checks to ask politicians and media organisations to issue corrections when they get things wrong.
We have been in touch with Brandon Lewis about two of his claims. He has yet to correct the record.
Brandon Lewis made a misleading claim about voter ID on 12 January 2023
It has been 468 days without Brandon Lewis correcting the record
Brandon Lewis made a false claim about employment figures on 17 May 2022
It has been 714 days without Brandon Lewis correcting the record
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