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Theresa May’s claim about housing doesn’t give the full picture
Theresa May spoke about house building at the Conservative conference. But the figures she used don’t give the full picture.
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Philip Hammond’s attack on Labour over ‘market economics’
The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has defended the “market economy”, saying it has brought people out of poverty. In media interviews and his speech to Conservative conference, Mr Hammond repeatedly accused the Labour Party of posing a threat to this economic model. The chancellor even appeared to compare Labour’s policies to countries like North Korea and…
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FactCheck Q&A: the Tories’ plans for student loans
Fees will be frozen at £9,250 a year, and that next year’s planned rise to £9,500 will be abandoned.
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Do rent controls work?
In his speech at the Labour Party Conference this week, Jeremy Corbyn promised to introduce rent controls. The announcement delighted many struggling private renters, but critics responded saying the move would damage the housing sector and be a “disaster for tenants”. So who’s right? What does ‘rent control’ actually mean? The main problem with the rent controls…
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The rise of right-wing populism in Europe
By our calculations, at least 30 million people have voted for right-wing populist parties in EU countries in the last five years.
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What would war look like for North Korea?
North Korea has claimed that Donald Trump has declared war. The US president had said North Korea’s leaders “won’t be around much longer” and referred to Kim Jong-Un as “Little Rocket Man”. This followed Mr Trump’s speech to the UN last week in which he warned that America would “totally destroy” North Korea if the…
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Labour and antisemitism
The Labour party finds itself in the middle of a row over antisemitism – in the week when the party will change rules to explicitly forbid antisemitism. FactCheck investigates.
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John McDonnell’s Labour conference speech
The research that Mr McDonnell cites actually estimates that it could cost £20bn to write off student debt by 2050.
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What did we learn from Theresa May’s Brexit speech?
She wants a two(ish)-year “implementation period” The Prime Minister had already said she wanted some kind of transitional arrangement to continue after the current date when Britain is set to leave the EU – 29 March 2019. But this is the first time she has mentioned a specific timetable. Mrs May says she wants an…
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How Boris has changed his tune on Brexit
We’ve FactChecked this to death – suffice to say that Britain does not in fact spend anything like £350m a week on EU membership fees.
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No evidence for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s food bank claims
The Conservative MP said that the “real reason” food bank usage has increased is that the government has allowed Jobcentre Plus to tell people they exist. Under Labour, this was not allowed, he said. But does that claim stand up to scrutiny?
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Theresa May’s misleading claims about police pay
Are police officers really better off now than in 2010? FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck Q&A: What’s Labour’s position on the single market?
The Conservative Party have suggested that Labour’s policy on the single market is unclear. But is that fair? FactCheck looked at what the party has said since the EU referendum was called last year. Ahead of the referendum Like the Conservative leadership, Labour’s official stance ahead of last year’s referendum was that Britain should stay…
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Do black criminals get harsher sentences for the same crimes?
Analysis that shows ethnic minority criminals are 240% more likely to be jailed for drug offences cannot exclude the possibility that the BAME offenders were simply convicted of more serious crimes.
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Brexit bill is ‘the greatest constitutional change since the war’
Parliamentarians will debate the EU Withdrawal Bill for the first time today. It’s been described as the ‘biggest constitutional change since the war’. FactCheck investigates.