John McDonnell MP
We’ve fact checked John McDonnell nine times. Join others in his constituency of Hayes and Harlington to ask him to stand up for honesty in public life.
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We’ve fact checked John McDonnell nine 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.
726 homeless people are estimated to have died in England and Wales in 2018
“There’s 700,000 people died on our streets homeless last year.”
John McDonnell, 8 March 2020
John McDonnell repeats misleading claim about Conservative pension age plans
“Their [the Conservatives] ambition: a state pension age of 75”.
John McDonnell, 7 November 2019
Are university applications falling in the UK?
“I know what people are saying about the issue of tuition fees, but we’re just seeing for the first time, because the Tories increased tuition fees from 3,000 to 9,000 pounds we’re just seeing state children, the percentage of state children declining.”
John McDonnell, 21 May 2017
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