From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
Economy, Business & Finance
BBC Question time saw claims on the pay gap, women's employment and a £23 billion boost to GDP from women reaching their potential. We look at the figures. Read
Health
Have NHS waiting times got better or worse in the last few years? It depends which measure you're looking at. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
John McDonnell argued on last night's Question Time that some of the government's economic boasts are hollow. We've taken a look at his claims. Read
Immigration
Readers have asked us whether it's true that most refugees are male. Of those applying for asylum in the EU recently, more than half have been men aged over 18. Read
Health
The £8 billion figure is totemic for the future of the NHS, but as the Nuffield Trust has explained, it is not extra money to pay for extra services. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Jeremy Corbyn claims child poverty went up by half a million under the last government. It's up by one measure, but down by another. Read
Education
We know that at the very least, costs for part-time nursery for the under 2s has been increasing—particularly in certain regions. Read
Crime
Just under half the cases won against the UK at the European Court of Human Rights have involved someone convicted or suspected of a criminal offence. Read
Immigration
Germany will end up accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees, both from Syria and the wider world, but 800,000 Syrians accepted to date is way off. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
George Osborne found £4.5 billion in savings to be made by the government, including asset sales. Do asset sales count as savings? Read
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