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A video from October where Ms Phillips talks about how parties can’t deliver everything in manifestos was edited by the Conservatives to make it look like she was talking about the 2019 Labour manifes Read
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At the Brexit Party’s manifesto launch this morning, leader Nigel Farage pledged to remove corporation tax on business profits under £10,000. Corporation tax is a tax on limited businesses, and … Read
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If you hadn’t noticed yet, it’s manifesto week. Yesterday was the turn of Labour who pledged an additional £83 billion of public spending, while claiming that there would be no … Read
At the moment it comes down to who you believe, but beware of extreme and unrealistic predictions. Read
This page will feature all our fact checks on the Labour party manifesto for the 2019 general election. Read
This page will feature all our fact checks on the Liberal Democrat manifesto for the 2019 general election. Read
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Rounding off our check of claims from last night’s ITV election interviews, Green Party co-leader Siân Berry claimed that “our buses have been cut back by nearly half.” This refers … Read
Funding from local authorities in England (excluding London) is down 43%, and this excludes money from central government which has not seen such large falls. Read
Depending on how you count it the figure could be anywhere between 7% and 26% of spending by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England. Read
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Last night in the ITV leaders interviews Nigel Farage talked about trade barriers the EU raises against African countries. We’ve fact checked claims like this before and while Mr Farage … Read
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