Search results for ‘spending cuts’
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Is Miliband right about benefit cuts to cancer patients?
Ed Miliband picked an emotive subject when he claimed the Welfare Bill would see 7,000 cancer patients lose almost £100 a week in benefits. “How can that be right?” he asked. FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck: Is NHS spending still in the black?
The Government has promised to increase real-terms spending on the NHS. But experts say spending is already falling, and only a tinker with the figures can save the Coalition’s blushes.
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FactCheck: UK budget cuts – does the BBC over-egg it?
The claim “Fact of the day (because the BBC won’t tell you): UK spending cuts are currently smaller than €urozone average” Tim Montgomerie, Conservative Home editor, on Twitter, May 23 2011
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The Bank of England cuts UK growth forecast
As the Bank of England cuts its growth forecast and warns of volatile inflation, one economist tells Channel 4 News the Bank’s latest figures may still be too optimistic.
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FactCheck: Are Coalition cuts strangling the recovery?
“Too far and too fast” is the Labour mantra on Coalition cuts. But is the Chancellor to blame for the bad news on Britain’s flatlining economy.
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Coastguard cuts threaten thousands of lives, and Prince William’s job
The claim “We want to make changes only if they improve the Coastguard support that people in fishing communities and elsewhere get.” David Cameron MP, Prime Ministers’ Questions, March 30, 2011
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Libya conflict could have cost less without defence cuts
Liam Fox tells Channel 4 News “we have the capability to project air power abroad and protect UK interests at very short notice” as questions are raised over the cost of the Libya airstrikes.
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London cuts demo: Police issue CCTV images
Video footage and photographs of demonstrators wanted for questioning over the violence at last months anti- cuts demonstration in London are released by the Metropolitan Police.
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Manchester: front line in the cuts blame game
The border between urban Manchester and leafy Trafford has become the front line in a fierce political battle over who’s to blame for cuts to local services. FactCheck gets to work.
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Minister admits poorest areas will be hardest hit by cuts
In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, Housing Minister Grant Shapps has conceded that the poorest local authorities will suffer the most under Government spending cuts.
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Police cuts report warns of ‘big challenges’
Sir Denis O’Connor says it will be ‘very difficult’ for the police front line to remain intact as budget cuts start to bite.
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Police cuts – the legal landmine lurking for ministers
FactCheck learns the unions are spoiling for a fight over police cuts – and the Government could be leaving police chiefs in a legal minefield.
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Labour MP backs anti-cuts group after hundreds of arrests
As senior Labour figures scramble to distance themselves from anti-cuts protesters involved in disorder in London this weekend, one left-winger is refusing to toe the party line.
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Cuts to flood defences could leave homes ‘uninsurable’
As the Government tests its flood defences, critics say cuts will leave homes without insurance. MP Diana Johnson tells Channel 4 News: “The insurance market is practically closed in Hull.”
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FactCheck: Police job cuts ‘tip of the iceberg’
As an independent review into police pay and conditions recommends savings of almost £500m, the Association of Chief Police Officers warns that planned Government cuts will still cost around 28,000 jobs in forces up and down the country. Are they right? FactCheck investigates.