From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
Health
It all depends on what you mean by new. But the £1 billion was money that had already been promised to hospitals but which they were unable to spend previously. Read
Flamingo egg yolks are usually yellow to red in colour. Read
Abolitionist William Wilberforce was an independent MP, not a Tory MP, though he was fairly loyal to the Tory Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger. Read
An estimated 320,000 people are homeless in Great Britain, and that figure includes people who aren’t British. Read
Europe
Free ports (areas within countries where import tariffs don’t apply) exist within the EU, but in a more limited form than elsewhere in the world. Read
The video was filmed around the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, before the Second World War began. Read
This graphic comparing benefit fraud and tax fraud is wrong. It’s difficult to compare DWP and HMRC, and most of the numbers quoted are incorrect. Read
George Soros was not a Nazi in the Second World War, and a picture claiming to show him as one is actually of the Auschwitz officer Oskar Gröning. Read
The now Prime Minister said in 2007 that Gordon Brown taking over from Tony Blair was a “scandal”. Read
Other tweets from that profile indicate it doesn’t belong to the radical preacher. Read
Fact checking claims made by politicians, public figures and viral online content can give you the full picture backed by the evidence.
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