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Fact check: Both Tory and Labour net zero grid plans need more than £100bn extra

By By August Graham, PA 10/06/2024

The Labour plans will need £116 billion in additional public and private investment, while the Conservative proposal will require £104.6 billion.

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Fact check: Ministers have plans to spend 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030

By By August Graham, PA 10/06/2024

If GDP forecasts are correct, that would mean spending £87.1 billion a year on defence.

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Fact check: There are 6.29 million people on the NHS waiting list in England

By By Ella Pickover, PA 10/06/2024

Some of these patients are waiting for multiple treatments, which means that the overall waiting list is larger.

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Fact check: Pensioner poverty dropped under the last Labour government

By By August Graham, PA 10/06/2024

The number of married pensioners living in poverty fell from 22% in 2005, when Labour last won a general election, to 14% in 2010.

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Fact check: Former defence minister voiced support for national service plan

By By August Graham, PA 10/06/2024

Ben Wallace said national service is ‘perfectly normal in most of Northern Europe. Young people are better for it’.

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