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How many jobs from ‘scandalous’ growth fund?
Mr Hancock earns himself a “Fiction” rating after just a week in office, which may be a FactCheck record.
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How do we solve the housing crisis?
There’s nothing new or unusual about the existence of land banks, and the fact that there are plots ready to be built on but standing empty may well be a simple matter of economics.
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Cuts to Disability Living Allowance
Rightly or wrongly, the government has taken steps to curb the trend of rising spending on DLA. About half a million people will be affected.
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Why Pistorius’s complaint is a tall story
Paralympic icon Oscar Pistorius said his rival’s legs in the T44 200m were “unbelievably long” but did Alan Oliveira’s blades really make the difference? FactCheck does the running.
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Tim Yeo’s flight claims head for emergency landing
Once a vocal environmentalist, Tim Yeo MP now thinks we could cover the whole of Surrey with runways and get away with the same carbon footprint. Whether we’d want to is another matter.
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CatCheck: Are lions and leopards on the loose in Britain?
While confirmed sightings have dried up in recent years, it is indisputably the case that exotic big cats have been found living wild in the UK from time to time.
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Should the Tories give back the Nadir cash?
If one of the companies used to make the donations was part of this subterfuge, where does that leave the Conservatives, legally and indeed morally?
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Should quango claims go on the bonfire?
Existing health quangos Monitor and the Care Quality Commission, expanded under the Lansley reforms, have seen staff costs rise by £28m in the last year alone.
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Are the British treating Julian Assange unfairly?
Undermining the British government’s position in the diplomatic stand-off over Julian Assange, the MP George Galloway implied our courts have done something “unprecedented” in order to comply with the Swedish authorities. Setting aside the diplomatic impasse which now finds Mr Assange holed up at the Equadorian embassy, is this a first for Britain? Are we really extraditing someone simply for questioning?
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Is Labour right about the ‘commercialisation’ of the NHS?
What’s the difference between the government’s new “Healthcare UK” plan to export NHS experitise abroad, and Labour’s NHS Global plan? Plagued by a sense of déjà-vu, FactCheck dons its white coat.
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Train travel on track?
Will passenger numbers cut the grade for FirstGroup’s bid for the West Coast line? FactCheck takes a look.
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Are the train operators the villains of the piece?
“There are other companies making much bigger amounts of money than the operators, and enjoying much higher profit margins.”
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FactCheck Q&A: How would ‘Team Scotland’ get on at the Games?
“Scotland would be in a respectable 11th place in the world medal rankings. And if you allow for population size, it’s even more of an achievement.”
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Boris wrong on apprentices
Apprenticeships went up by 75 per cent in London from 2005/06 to 2010/11 for under-19s and by nearly 30,000 per cent for over-25s.
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Boris’s police promise unzipped
“So Boris has failed to honour one of his manifesto promises, and he’s missed by more than 700 bobbies, according to these statistics.”