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FactCheck: Some Conservatives did defend fans who booed England
A number of Conservative MPs, including several ministers, did defend fans who booed England players for “taking the knee” before their Euro 2020 matches.
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FactCheck: government doesn’t know how many staff at hundreds of care providers are vaccinated
Some 668 providers are missing from the data.
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FactCheck: Sunak claims Conservatives lowered income inequality before pandemic
The ONS says income inequality reached a 10-year high in the year before the crisis.
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FactCheck: Youth services have seen big cuts over the last decade
The YMCA found that spending on youth services has been cut by 71 per cent in real terms since 2010/11 – or almost a billion pounds.
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FactCheck: EU citizens who don’t have Settlement status decision won’t lose all their rights overnight
The UK government has said that people who have not had their applications processed yet will have their rights protected while they are waiting for a decision.
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FactCheck: did Hancock break law over embrace?
The health secretary said he had “let people down” and is “very sorry”.
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FactCheck: Johnson incorrectly claims Brexit enabled freeports
The UK had freeports while it was still an EU member.
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FactCheck: extra funding for CPS comes after long-term cuts
We can see the scale of the cuts by looking at the budget allocations made by government to the CPS over the last decade.
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FactCheck: do Covid vaccines affect periods?
The MHRA says the current evidence “does not suggest an increased risk” of menstrual disorders.
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FactCheck: Hancock claims about care home lists don’t add up
The Health Secretary said the government didn’t have a list of all the elderly care homes in England.
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FactCheck Q&A: how much good will the G7 vaccine pledge do?
Campaigners have accused rich countries of doing too little, too late to stop the spread of the pandemic around the world.
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FactCheck: how many care home outbreaks were caused by hospital patients?
Matt Hancock said the “best estimate” was 1.6% – but there’s key data missing.
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FactCheck: how worried should we be about the Indian variant?
The evidence is emerging – here’s what we know so far.
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FactCheck: Hancock claims 12-week gap between vaccine doses ‘saved 12,000 lives’
The data doesn’t tell us about this specific policy.
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FactCheck: Video which purports to show Israeli policeman strangling Palestinian boy is false
The video actually shows Swedish security guards detaining a nine-year-old boy in Malmo in 2015.