Iain Duncan Smith MP
We’ve fact checked Iain Duncan Smith eight times. We’ve asked him to correct the record once. Join others in his constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green to ask him to stand up for honesty in public life.
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We’ve fact checked Iain Duncan Smith eight 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.
Bank of England did not sell £80 billion in gilts shortly before mini-Budget
Add to that the Bank's sale of some £80bn of gilts at the same period as the Chancellor's mini-budget further destabilising the markets and one is sadly bound to conclude a critical lack of coordination between Treasury and the Bank.
Iain Duncan Smith, 13 October 2022
Iain Duncan Smith wrong to say successful asylum seekers would return from Rwanda
The people that [the government] are going to be sending [to Rwanda] are going to be essentially those that are suspected strongly of being there for economic reasons where they’ll be processed. If they’re wrong, they’ll come back to the UK.
Iain Duncan Smith, 19 June 2022
Iain Duncan Smith’s figures on school absence are out of date
The Centre for Social Justice, which I chair, produced figures the other day which were shocking, which is about the nature of the effect on pupils—particularly pupils from poorer backgrounds, where literally absence has grown by 55% during the previous lockdown. There are over 90,000 now absent from school.
Iain Duncan Smith, 21 December 2021
We’ve asked Iain Duncan Smith to correct the record once
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 Iain Duncan Smith about one of his claims. He has yet to correct the record.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith made an incorrect claim about asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda on 19 June 2022.
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