Search results for ‘bbc’
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FactCheck: Angela Rayner’s claim about rape trials dropped due to delays
Angela Rayner said that during a six-month period last year 175 trials for rape and other serious sexual offences had to be dropped “because the victim could no longer cope with the delay”. FactCheck takes a look.
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Gary Lineker to return to Match of the Day
Gary Lineker says he is delighted to be back at Match of the Day – thanking supporters for their “remarkable show of solidarity”.
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Gary Lineker to ‘step back’ from presenting Match of the Day after tweets criticising government asylum policy
“We have never said that Gary should be an opinion free zone”, the BBC insisted this evening as they announced that Gary Lineker would not be presenting Match of the Day after his series of tweets criticising the government’s asylum policy and comparing their language to Germany in the 1930s.
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FactCheck: does new Northern Ireland Brexit deal ‘remove any sense’ of an Irish Sea border?
The new Windsor Framework is designed to simplify trade arrangements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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FactCheck: what does Putin’s nuclear ‘New START’ decision mean and should we be worried?
Experts say the risk of nuclear conflict remains low.
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‘It was known that Richard Sharp was close to Boris Jonhson’, says former Commissioner for Public Appointments
Cathy talks to Sir Peter Riddell. He was the Commissioner for Public Appointments when Richard Sharp was appointed as BBC Chairman.
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Prime Minister orders ethics investigation into tax affairs of Tory chairman
Rishi Sunak was in Northampton earlier to launch a mental health policy, but instead had to use the event to announce an investigation into one of his own cabinet ministers. Revelations over Nadhim Zahawi’s HMRC penalty have raised questions over the Prime Minister’s commitment to rebuilding standards. Meanwhile, the man who oversaw their perceived collapse,…
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Labour calls on Sunak to ‘come clean’ over Nadhim Zahawi tax affairs
Labour has called on Rishi Sunak to “come clean” over Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs – and reveal what he knew about the Conservative party chairman’s settlement with HM Revenue and Customs last October, when Mr Zahawi was given the job.
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FactCheck: Sunak, Cleverly and Zahawi’s claims about Suella Braverman’s resignation
The prime minister said the home secretary ‘raised the matter’ that led to her resignation last week.
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FactCheck: Why is the pound falling, interest rates rising and mortgages being pulled?
A beginner’s guide to our current financial situation.
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FactCheck: Labour keeps repeating misleading claim on energy windfall tax
Rachel Reeves said windfall profits have been left “untaxed”.
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FactCheck: Why are energy bills going up?
Experts say it’s a “perfect storm.”
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FactCheck: Starmer incorrectly claims economy hasn’t grown for 12 years
The economy has grown in every year except one since 2010.
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FactCheck: can Truss pay for her promises without breaking ‘fiscal rules’?
She says her plans are “affordable”.
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DJ Tim Westwood accused of sex with 14-year-old
A woman has accused the DJ Tim Westwood of having sex with her when she was 14 years old. She is among 10 women who have come foward claiming they were victims of sexual misconduct following an investigation into the former Radio 1 presenter by the BBC and The Guardian newspaper. That investigation alleged Mr…