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Police on the streets 80% of the time?
When Gordon Brown said – during the leaders debate – that police now spend 80% of their time on the streets was he right?
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Leaders’ debate: policing, education, immigration & cancer rates
FactCheck looks at a variety of claims from last night’s leaders’ debate
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Cameron’s Lexus takes a wrong turn?
David Cameron says he was at a Hull police station recently and they were about to purchase a £73,000 Lexus car – that they should be spending that money on front line policing. What’s right and what’s not…?
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Is most of the UK’s law made in Brussels?
UKIP’s leader, Lord Pearson, claims that most of Britain’s law is made in Brussels? But can that be true?
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Immigration row: three parties clash on C4 but who’s right?
Labour’s immigration minister, Conservative & Lib Dem home affairs spokesmen clash over immigration statistics – but who’s been doing their homework?
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Lib Dem Manifesto 2010: planes, poverty & footballs
The Liberal Democrats could be the deciding party in the next election. Their manifesto gets the FactCheck treatment.
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Plaid Cymru Manifesto 2010: budget cuts & opposition to war
Plaid Cymru published their manifesto on Tuesday – FactCheck took a closer look
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Conservative Manifesto 2010: inheritance tax, crime & unemployment
FactCheck checks it out FactCheck thought we had a hard day yesterday working on the Labour Manifesto but when 120 pages of the Conservative manifesto dropped in our inboxes we stopped what we were doing and got to work. The analysis “And we will raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m to help millions of people who…
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UKIP Manifesto 2010: expelling foreign criminals
UKIP Manifesto gets it wrong on the claim that the UK can’t expel foreign criminals from the another EU country.
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Cider: less apples more problem drinking?
Is it consistent for the Conservative leader to oppose a 10 per cent increase across the board on all cider drinks but to propose a higher tax on super strength ciders
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Labour Manifesto 2010: tax benefits, policing & pensions
Labour’s 2010 manifesto has been given the FactCheck treatment. For more read on.
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Would the Tories scrap cancer guarantees?
Is Labour right to saythe Conservatives would “scrap your right to see a cancer specialist within two weeks and your right to be treated within 18 weeks”? FactCheck checks it out.
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UK deficit bigger than Greece? Not yet it’s not
There is more murky water between the UK deficit and that of Greece than Mr Cameron would have us believe.
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Can savings be made through 40,000 job losses?
Today Sir Peter Gershon came out and gave some detail on the Tory savings efficiencies.
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Are the Tory savings just back-of-an-envelope sums?
Its claim and counter-claim from the Tories and Labour over how the Tories can make even more efficiency savings than are already being made.