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Survation’s poll was a national survey of voting intention which was then used to model an estimate of what local voting could be – this might not be reliable. Read
Images of an apparent Guardian article reporting on “turmoil at heart of Liberal Democrats” are fake. 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
A recent Guardian quiz on Boris Johnson attracted over 70,000 responses. The respondents were not representative of Guardian readers or the public. Read
The Labour Party polled 18% this week. It has only polled this low once before, in May 2009. Read
A YouGov poll did not forecast Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn losing his Islington North seat to the Lib Dems after 36 years. Read
A survey does not show that four in ten dads would not see their children on Father’s Day, as newspapers and Fathers4Justice have claimed. Read
A tweet supposedly from the MP saying he wouldn’t be caught dead in a yellow rosette seems to have been faked. Read
The ‘Imperial March’ was not played for Donald Trump during his UK state visit. Read
The quote appears to have been coined by a poet. It has since been attributed to Mrs Thatcher, but we don’t know whether she ever quoted it. Read
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