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Economy, Business & Finance
We don’t know how many people use food banks in total. The Trussell Trust, which is estimated to run around half of all food banks in the UK, says it had around 560,000 people using its services. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Latest figures suggest two million pensioners are in relative poverty, but the rate is much lower than it was decades ago. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Research by a number of think tanks has found that the average pensioner income, after housing costs have been included, is now above that of the average person of working age. Read
Europe
For the most part Remain and Leave voters do not have diametrically opposed views of what Brexit should entail, according to polling experts at NatCen. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Wages have been rising faster than prices for the last few years, but inflation has now caught up. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The number of affordable homes fell by 420,000 under Labour. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The basic state pension went up by slightly more under Labour up to 2010 than under Conservative Chancellors since then, once inflation is factored in. Read
Health
The number of people waiting four hours in all types of A&E in England in 2015/16 is higher than in 2010/11. More people are going to A&E but the percentage of people seen within four hours has also f Read
Claims that the Conservatives' poll lead has plummeted are based on patchy evidence. Read
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