Conservative Party

Economy, Business & Finance

Kemi Badenoch’s claims about Labour’s unemployment record aren’t quite right—here’s why

By Hannah Smith • 3 mins

The Conservative leader has repeated two claims about Labour’s record on unemployment, neither of which is quite right. Read

Immigration

Is Keir Starmer right to claim immigration increased ‘four-fold’ under the Conservatives?

By Hannah Smith • 2 mins

The Prime Minister’s claim that immigration quadrupled in five years under the Conservatives actually appears to refer to net migration. Read

Politics

Russia’s defence spending is not 43% of its GDP

By Nasim Asl • 3 mins

There’s no evidence to support a claim from Conservative MP Lincoln Jopp—credible estimates suggest the correct figure is actually around 6% or 7%. Read

Health

Is Labour right to claim Reform UK would ‘scrap the NHS’?

By Full Fact Team • 8 mins

In the run-up to the local elections, Labour is warning Reform UK would make people pay to use the health service—a claim the party’s strongly denied. Full Fact looks at the evidence. Read

Has Reform UK ‘gained’ more seats than any other party in council by-elections since November?

By Nasim Asl • 3 mins

It depends on how you count seats “gained”. Read

Did Labour promise to freeze council tax?

By Hannah Smith • 7 mins

We’ve taken a look at what Labour said it would do, after Conservative claims that council tax rises this year amount to a “betrayal”. Read

Interest rates were not at 11% under the last Conservative government

By Nasim Asl • 2 mins

Recent claims from Sir Keir Starmer and another government minister appear to have confused interest rates with inflation. Read

Health

Wes Streeting overstated the number of people on the NHS waiting list under the Conservatives

By Leo Benedictus • 4 mins

There were actually 6.4 million people on the NHS England waiting list last July, not 7.6 million as the health secretary claimed last month. That was the number of cases. Read