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Johnson on Scottish taxes
The Prime Minister said Scotland has ‘the highest taxes anywhere in Europe.’
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Can no-deal Brexit be stopped?
There are just two months to go before we’re due to leave.
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Parliament ‘prorogation’ explained
“There is a tussle now for the steering wheel”
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Boris Johnson’s stop and search knife claim
Some 10,827 knives were seized under the scheme, but this includes blades recovered through means other than stop and search.
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No evidence for government’s plastic straw claims
The government says up to 47 million straws enter the sea from the UK each year. But now it admits that’s just an assumption – and appears to have no evidence to back it up.
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Scottish police numbers under the SNP
It’s hard to say how many police officers are actually “on the beat” in Scotland today.
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Will the UK economy do better than Germany, Italy and Japan in 2019?
That’s what Chancellor Sajid Javid said today.
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No, plastic bag sales aren’t down 90%
The government says ‘sales of plastic bags by the seven biggest retailers in England have fallen by 90%’. But the figures don’t include ‘bags for life’ – which now account for a significant proportion of supermarket plastic bags.
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Is Boris Johnson really giving the NHS “new money”?
NHS experts have cast doubt on whether the £1.8bn is really new, and whether it is enough to make a difference to cash-strapped hospitals.
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How many new border staff are we really getting?
Ministers have announced that UK Border Force would be hiring 500 more people to cope with the possible fall-out of leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
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Will sheep farmers suffer in a no-deal Brexit?
About 35 per cent of Welsh lamb is exported overseas, and 92.5 per cent of those exports go to the EU.
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Johnson’s claim about ‘super prolific’ criminals spared jail
The Prime Minister left out some key details.
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We can’t find evidence that Dominic Raab warned of no-deal Brexit
We can’t find an interview where Mr Raab warned explicitly about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit during the referendum campaign.
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Has Boris Johnson broken his pledge to EU nationals living in Britain?
Boris Johnson used his first Commons statement as Prime Minister to “repeat unequivocally our guarantee to the 3.2 million EU nationals now living and working among us”.
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How representative is Johnson’s first cabinet?
Boris Johnson has given 33 MPs a seat round the cabinet table.