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FactCheck Q&A: How many migrants are on the dole?
“Some of the 371,000 might have made substantial contributions to the exchequer through tax and National Insurance deductions for many years, and only claimed benefits for a short time.”
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Has youth unemployment really doubled?
“If this was a boxing match, we’d give Mr Cameron a narrow win on points.”
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Is Wikipedia a reliable source?
As Wikipedia stages a blackout and people claim they will be “helpless” without it, FactCheck looks at how heavily people rely on Wikipedia? And how reliable a source it is.
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Will disabled people suffer under the Welfare Reform Bill?
“At time of writing, it remains unclear how the government attempts to make the two key numbers match up.”
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Why Clegg’s right about the “John Lewis economy”
“There’s good evidence that the John Lewis effect is not just a fluke. Employee-owned companies, particularly the smaller businesses the government is so keen to back, often do better than others.”
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Does Scotland look bonnie to foreign investors?
FactCheck looks at how much foreign investment Scotland attracts, and asks some of the companies investing if they are worried about the prospect of an independent Scotland.
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Do energy companies put bills ‘up like a rocket and down like a feather’?
Are energy groups, such as EDF, too quick to put up gas prices when wholesale prices rise, but too slow to drop prices for hard-pressed consumers when wholesale prices drop? FactCheck investigates.
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Who’s right about rail fares?
“Sources in the rail industry have told FactCheck there was nothing to stop Labour from specifying a longer period of time in this document if they had really wanted the change to last longer than one year.”
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Why the numbers don’t add up on HS2
“On the day it announced the biggest infrastructure project for generations, the DfT released two different figures for how much it will cost, and is currently unable to offer an explanation why.”
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Do we only vote Labour when times are good?
Is it true that voters only side with Labour during the “good times” as Ed Miliband claims? FactCheck looks at the evidence.
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Will we strike Olympic gold this summer?
“How can you calculate the long-term returns on the Olympic facilities when you don’t know whether a newly-built stadium will turn out to be a popular sports centre or the next Millennium Dome?”
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Do we really need to bash the bankers?
“Put the violin away: research also suggests that basic pay has risen as bonuses have fallen.”
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Do academy schools perform better?
“Any school that acquires a new building, a new head teacher and many new staff is likely to improve its pupils’ levels of attainment.”
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FactCheck Q&A: The boom and bust of cosmetic surgery in the UK
The FactCheck team looks at the rise of plastic surgery in Britain, the kind of aggressive marketing tactics used by the industry, and the lack of proper regulation.
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Did the Government learn anything from the Cumbria shootings?
The government says it has no plans to change Britain’s gun laws after a horrific shooting on New Year’s Day that left four people dead. We have some of the toughest gun laws in the world already, ministers have said. That’s almost exactly what Theresa May said 18 months ago, after taxi driver Derrick Bird shot 12 people dead in Cumbria with legally-owned guns.