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Question Time on October 5, 2018 came from Canary Wharf in London. Topics covered were austerity, immigration, knife crime and clapping being replaced with hand waving. Read
45% of Labour’s shadow cabinet are women and 13% are of non-white ethnicities Read
A 2015 survey found around 60% of British Jews are Zionists and 90% support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Read
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Question Time on 20 September 2018 came from the West Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. Topics covered included the Chequers deal, rail nationalisation, Islamophobia, and party conferences. Read
Question Time on September 13, 2018 came from the Oxfordshire town of Banbury. Topics covered included the Salisbury poisoning, Brexit, zero hours contracts, and prisons. Read
The UK has licensed at least £5.5bn of arms to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners during the Yemen War. But not all licences are ultimately exported. Read
Local police will provide security for Princess Eugenie’s wedding. The cost is unconfirmed but reported estimates of £2 million seem in the right ballpark. Read
Local authorities plan to build around 460,000 homes on the Green Belt over 15 years. That could cover 0.9% of the current Green Belt area. Read
This week Question Time was in Dartford. We factchecked claims on post-Brexit customs arrangements, how constituencies voted in the EU referendum, our EU budget contributions, and who we trade with. Read
This week Question Time was in King's Lynn. We factchecked claims on social care funding, universal credit and food banks, NHS funding and satisfaction. Read
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