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Did Hancock break law over embrace?
The health secretary said he had “let people down” and is “very sorry”.
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Johnson incorrectly claims Brexit enabled freeports
The UK had freeports while it was still an EU member.
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FactCheck: extra funding for CPS comes after long-term cuts
We can see the scale of the cuts by looking at the budget allocations made by government to the CPS over the last decade.
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Do Covid vaccines affect periods?
The MHRA says the current evidence “does not suggest an increased risk” of menstrual disorders.
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Hancock claims about care home lists don’t add up
The Health Secretary said the government didn’t have a list of all the elderly care homes in England.
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FactCheck Q&A: how much good will the G7 vaccine pledge do?
Campaigners have accused rich countries of doing too little, too late to stop the spread of the pandemic around the world.
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How many care home outbreaks were caused by hospital patients?
Matt Hancock said the “best estimate” was 1.6% – but there’s key data missing.
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How worried should we be about the Indian variant?
The evidence is emerging – here’s what we know so far.
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Hancock claims 12-week gap between vaccine doses ‘saved 12,000 lives’
The data doesn’t tell us about this specific policy.
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Video which purports to show Israeli policeman strangling Palestinian boy is false
The video actually shows Swedish security guards detaining a nine-year-old boy in Malmo in 2015.
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FactCheck Q&A: what is the voter ID row all about?
Not having to show ID creates an obvious theoretical risk of “personation” – people pretending to be someone else in order to steal their vote. But there is no evidence that this is a widespread problem in the UK.
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Government hasn’t spent half of promised cladding cash
Some £1.6bn was due to have been spent by 31 March this year.
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To mask or not to mask? The science and the politics of face coverings
Do masks actually protect against Covid-19? Why is there so little scientific evidence that they are effective? And how did a piece of health advice get so political?
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What are the consequences for politicians who lie?
Who gets to decide whether someone in power is guilty of lying? And what penalties are in place for those who are found to have deliberately misled parliament or the public?
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Government publishes another 81 PPE contracts after legal deadline
A further 81 PPE contracts have come to light that breached the government’s own procurement rules.