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18:09 – November 28, 2024
Fact check: The number of people seeking asylum in Ireland dropped in October
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Fact check: Donald Trump shooting misinformation and GP patient numbers
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16:42 - July 11, 2024
Fact check: Claims about politicians, ULEZ exemption and Labour seats
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14:14 - July 4, 2024
Fact check: Pencils are normally used to vote as ink can obscure ballot papers
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15:19 - July 3, 2024
Fact check: Child poverty has increased since 2010 by all but one measure
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15:41 - July 2, 2024
Fact check: Labour’s manifesto has not promised to give prisoners the vote
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11:21 - July 2, 2024
Fact check: Sir Keir Starmer protects time with his children on Friday nights
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14:04 - June 30, 2024
Fact check: Several countries have committed to banning new non-electric cars
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17:53 - June 28, 2024
Fact check: North Wales main line will receive £1 billion of former HS2 funding
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15:59 - June 27, 2024
Fact check: 300-year timeline for deportations extrapolated from unofficial data
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13:07 - June 27, 2024
Fact check: Clean energy provided around 21% of Britain’s power in 2010
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12:34 - June 27, 2024
Fact check: ‘First time’ Greg Hands supporter in video is not Tory councillor
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17:01 - June 26, 2024
Fact check: Hotel accommodation for asylum seekers aims to be temporary measure
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12:56 - June 25, 2024
Fact check: Former Nato chief did not say EU expansion ‘provoked’ Putin
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12:31 - June 25, 2024
Fact check: British citizens can stay in the EU for three months at a time
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10:42 - June 25, 2024
Fact check: Small boat crossings have been made in the Mediterranean for decades
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07:45 - June 25, 2024
Fact check: Plans to enforce National Service have not yet been developed
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16:46 - June 24, 2024
Fact check: IMF forecast UK to grow slower than the US in 2024 and 2025
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12:59 - June 24, 2024
Fact check: Ofcom’s rules on party broadcast time unchanged since at least 2017
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09:44 - June 24, 2024
Fact check: Videos of politicians playing Minecraft are likely AI-generated
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06:36 - June 21, 2024
Fact check: What is NHS policy on trans patients in single-sex wards?
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21:47 - June 20, 2024
Fact check: Scottish child payment projected to keep 60,000 children out of poverty
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12:30 - June 20, 2024
Fact check: Record for daily voter registration applications was set in 2019
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13:58 - June 19, 2024
Fact check: Polling body told members to be clear what parties they prompt for
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13:01 - June 18, 2024
Fact check: Changing Bank interest payments could save £11.5bn, estimate shows
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07:41 - June 18, 2024
Fact check: A study put England fourth in the world for primary school reading
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08:30 - June 17, 2024
Fact check: Projected result for Lee Anderson comes from ‘user-defined’ data
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14:01 - June 14, 2024
Fact check: Labour and the Conservatives most likely to win in Central Devon
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12:02 - June 14, 2024
Fact check: There will be no payment offered to British citizens to leave the UK
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08:32 - June 14, 2024
Fact check: Labour and SNP predicted to win most seats in Scotland nationally
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06:37 - June 14, 2024
Fact check: Rachel Reeves empathises with woman struggling with her bills
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22:43 - June 13, 2024
Fact check: Recent migrants account for a small proportion of the UK population
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22:40 - June 13, 2024
Fact check: Wes Streeting said he would hold door open to entrepreneurs in NHS
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17:07 - June 13, 2024
Fact check: Photo of Rishi Sunak’s mother’s pharmacy is from the 2000s
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21:52 - June 12, 2024
Fact check: Small boat migrant crossings fell by a quarter in the last 12 months
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14:49 - June 12, 2024
Fact check: It is unclear which party is second favourite among under 30s
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06:36 - June 12, 2024
Fact check: VAT on private school fees unlikely to increase state class sizes
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10:30 - June 11, 2024
Fact check: More than 20,000 police have been hired since 2019 – but not 2010
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09:32 - June 11, 2024
Fact check: YouGov poll shows figures for the North and the Midlands
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21:07 - June 7, 2024
Fact check: Report said Labour is considering 10-12 measures to fund policies
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15:53 - June 7, 2024
Fact check: Labour’s cost-of-living claim, Ofsted ratings and share buybacks
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17:41 - June 6, 2024
Fact check: Labour has not been in charge of immigration policy since 2010
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06:26 - June 5, 2024
Fact check: ONS projections show 10.3 million migrants could come to UK by 2036
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06:00 - June 5, 2024
Fact check: It is not clear how many delivery drivers are working illegally
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23:20 - June 4, 2024
Fact check: Pensioners paid £19.5 billion in income tax in year ending 2022
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22:33 - June 4, 2024
Fact check: Tory claims over Labour tax plans are based on policy assumptions
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08:39 - June 4, 2024
Fact check: Survey showing Labour support for republicanism is from 2019
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16:00 - May 30, 2024
Fact check: Former defence minister voiced support for national service plan
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07:07 - May 30, 2024
Fact check: There are 6.29 million people on the NHS waiting list in England
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16:09 - May 29, 2024
Fact check: Pensioner poverty dropped under the last Labour government
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15:46 - May 29, 2024
Fact check: Ministers have plans to spend 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030
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07:06 - May 29, 2024
Fact check: Rachel Reeves worked for the Bank of England over five years
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06:45 - May 28, 2024
Fact check: An image of Rishi Sunak in front of a Morrisons logo was altered
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06:31 - May 28, 2024
Fact check: Immigration was six times higher in 1964-2010 than past two years
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19:36 - May 24, 2024
Fact check: Seven in eight saw their state pension increase by less than £900
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19:24 - May 24, 2024
Fact check: Firm founded by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law made 2015 acquisition
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12:30 - May 24, 2024
Fact check: UK quarterly GDP outpaced the US, but annually it fell behind
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Election Check 24 is a coalition of news publishers and fact-checkers brought together by the UK and Ireland’s national news agency PA Media, supported by the Google News Initiative, to counter misinformation around the UK and Ireland’s general elections.
