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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…
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Brown gets defensive about budgets
The claim “The defence budget has been rising every year…. The only time the defence budget has been cut was in the 10 years before 1997” Gordon Brown, Questions to the prime minister, 10 March, 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out Gordon Brown has been under heavy fire from the top military brass in the…
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Is violent crime going up or down?
Cathy Newman’s FactCheck looks at the differing claims of the Labour ad Conservative party over levels of violent crime.
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Balls’ statistical failing on free school meals
Is Ed Balls right to say Michael Gove is using misleading statistics on the number of free school meals pupils who go to Oxbridge?
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How many non-dom peers?
Is Lord Paul right to say there could be 100 non-doms in the House of Lords?
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How big were Lord Ashcroft’s donations?
Conservative frontbencher Michael Gove played down Ashcroft’s role in funding the party, saying he was not their biggest donor. Is he right?
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Malnutrition in the NHS: a hidden killer?
Fifty thousand people are dying every year because of malnutrition in the NHS, according to the Conservatives.