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Ask the Chancellors: tax cuts, spending, unemployment
Channel 4 News FactCheck examines the claims in Ask the Chancellors.
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The national insurance hole in Osborne’s debt battle
Can the shadow Chancellor cut the deficit and cut taxes at one fell swoop? FactCheck checks it out.
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Ask the Chancellors: death tax, child tax credits & income gap
FactCheck looks at a range of statements from the “Ask the Chancellors” debate on Channel 4
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Brown’s migration muddle?
Gordon Brown gets in a muddle by using different sets of figures to show that net inward migration is falling.
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The real cost of stamp duty holiday?
How much with the stamp duty holiday cost the exchequer?
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Will savings of £11bn reduce deficit?
Alistair Darling claimed government departments will make £11bn of efficiences which will go towards reducing borrowing in his 2010 Budget statement. FactCheck puts it to the test.
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Budget 2010: vague savings, growth forecasts, job claims
Key claims in Alistair Darling’s 2010 budget – FactChecked.
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Tories won’t cut pensioner perks
David Cameron claims that Labour election leaflets “are quite simply lies” when they say his party would cut the winter fuel allowance, free bus travel and the free TV licence.
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FactCheck praised in the Lords. Fact.
FactCheck’s article on non-doms got a mention in the Lords this afternoon. Last week, we looked at Conservative plans for a flat rate levy on non-doms, raising £1.8bn in the process. Lord Oakeshott, picked up on our verdict saying: “Does the Minister agree with Cathy Newman’s first class FactCheck analysis on Channel 4, that there…
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More small businesses than last year?
In a rare bit of economic joy, Gordon Brown says there are now more small businesses than a year ago.
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Brown admits he got his defence sums wrong
Gordon Brown has been forced to admit he misled the House of Commons over defence spending, after an investigation by Channel 4 News FactCheck.
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Will Sure Start face £200m cuts?
Labour claims the Tories will slash £200m from the Sure Start budget FactCheck finds out if it’s true.
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Closing the non-dom ‘black hole’?
New figures show 4,200 people paid the government’s new non-dom charge. Does this tell us whether a Conservative policy of a flat-rate fee on non-doms would raise the £1.8bn the party thinks?
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How much is spent locking up children?
Is Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg’s claim that the government spent 11 times more on “locking up” children,on prevention correct? Channel 4 FactCheck investigates.
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Update: Gordon Brown and defence spending
Yesterday FackCheck looked at the prime minister’s claim that the defence budget has been rising every year since 1997. We concluded that in real terms – that is, taking inflation into account – Gordon Brown was incorrect. In real terms, the defence budget has fallen year-on-year four times since 1997. Getting political Today it all got…