Economy, Business & Finance
Does Labour expect a run on the pound?
Labour is not expecting a run on the pound, but both Corbyn and McDonnell support “scenario-plans” which consider what to do if it should happen under their government. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Labour is not expecting a run on the pound, but both Corbyn and McDonnell support “scenario-plans” which consider what to do if it should happen under their government. Read
Health
Government after government has considered £500 million plenty of money to boast about giving the NHS to help deal with the extra pressures of winter. Read
Health
The NHS “got less than we asked for”, the chief of NHS England Simon Stevens told MPs in the Public Accounts Committee in January. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The deficit has been coming down, but not as rapidly as the Coalition and the Conservatives had said in 2010 and 2015. Read
Health
“Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday”, the Office for National Statistics asks people every year. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Around 6 million employee jobs earned less than the living wage in 2016. We can’t say exactly how many people this applies to as some may be doing more than one job. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
There is no evidence we’ve seen showing that 10,000 jobs have already been lost in financial services following the EU referendum. Read
We factchecked the panellists claims on NHS staff from the EU, tuition fee increases and abolishing student debt. Read
Education
Jeremy Corbyn didn’t commit to abolishing student debt before the last election, although he did say he would “deal with” the high debts of graduates and was looking at ways to do so. Read
Education
Higher tuition fees don’t seem to have affected the longer-term trend of more disadvantaged students going to university. Read
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