We do fact checks and explain news about UK politics, helping you understand key issues and claims.
Politics
Last week the Government announced that “reform” of the NHS App has prevented 1.5 million hospital appointments from being missed. It also made a number of other claims about the … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
With opposition parties warning of “two-tier taxes” and the PM describing criticism as “incoherent nonsense”, we look at what we know about what’s been announced. Read
Politics
Stephen Kinnock MP is the latest government minister to misrepresent what projections from the IMF and OECD say about the UK’s economic growth compared to other countries. Read
Politics
Labour MP and Cabinet Office parliamentary private secretary Josh MacAlister has corrected a claim he made about the government’s record on immigration returns after he was contacted by Full Fact. Read
The screenshot, made to look like it has been published by the Telegraph, has been edited. No such article exists. Read
An oft-repeated false claim is circulating on social media again. Read
Health
In the run-up to the local elections, Labour is warning Reform UK would make people pay to use the health service—a claim the party’s strongly denied. Full Fact looks at the evidence. Read
Generally MPs are paid salaries and members of the House of Lords are entitled to attendance allowances, but none of them receive both. Read
The £521,525 referenced in social media posts is the amount of food and drinks spending over £500 expensed by the entire Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office over a four month period. Read
It depends on how you count seats “gained”. Read
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