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We've seen a poll on the Stoke by-election. As far as we're aware, the campaign group who carried it out still haven’t published the information you’d need to say whether it’s reliable. Read
MPs can take as much debate time as they like so long as they stay on topic. Read
UKIP got 12.4% of the vote in 2015 but had just one MP elected. Read
We’ve looked into claims about how much public money goes to the FA. Read
“We've been working, over the last year, to unite the party, and we were winning electorally and in the polls.” John McDonnell, 15 September 2016 “85 out of 89 polls … Read
The BBC has said it will make £150 million less in 2016/17 from licence fees than it had expected in 2011, which it attributes to an 'iPlayer loophole'. Read
We looked into whether this was Team GB's best Olympics ever, how much funding it gets, and which sports UK athletes have won the most medals in. Read
Andy Murray is the first to win two Olympic gold medals in singles tennis, but other men and women have won multiple gold medals. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
There's three shortlisted projects for airport expansion. MPs suggested that delaying the decision costs the UK between £2 million and £7 million a day. Read
Exact figures are hard to come by, but it seems correct to say that there are 10 times as many refugees in Lebanon as in the UK. Read
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