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Economy, Business & Finance
"The Tories have been urged to overhaul apprenticeships after it emerged a million people bid for 85,000 places last year", Mirror, 23rd May 2015 In Wednesday's Queen's Speech the government … Read
Health
This article has been updated. "It's a shocking fact, but mortality rates for patients admitted to hospital on a Sunday can be 16% higher than on a Wednesday..." - David … Read
Like some lost tribe, somewhere there exists a group of just 200,000 swing voters, who, after weeks of party campaigns the length and breadth of the country, will alone decide … Read
The DWP has carried out internal 'Peer Reviews' in 40 individual cases since February 2012 after the suicide or apparent suicide of a customer. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
"We will raise at least £5 billion from continuing to tackle tax evasion, and aggressive tax avoidance and tax planning, building on the £7 billion of annual savings we have … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
"We have the second largest defence budget in NATO and the largest in the EU"—Conservative manifesto, page 77 The above claim is true if you use one measurement of global … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
In this section Manifesto clash: house building Manifesto clash: recent house building Manifesto clash: affordable housing Introduction There's an old saying about Englishmen and their homes. The modern variation might … Read
Education
We've taken a look at competing claims about apprenticeships in the Conservative and Labour manifestos for the 2015 general election. Read
Immigration
The Migration Observatory's Election 2015 briefing series can be found here. The Migration Observatory is based at the University of Oxford, and provides impartial, independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis of data … Read
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