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FactCheck: ministers’ confusing free school meals defence
The government is facing pressure to change course – including from some Conservative MPs.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s confusing comments on Covid guidance for separated parents
Government rules contain exemptions for parents who don’t live with their children.
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FactCheck: health minister’s incorrect herd immunity claims
Nadine Dorries claimed ‘there is no such thing as herd immunity’.
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FactCheck: confusion over Covid-19 vaccine plans
There have been mixed messages recently about how a Covid-19 vaccination programme would be handled.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s questionable universal credit claim
The government didn’t offer us any evidence that it lifted 200,000 people out of absolute poverty.
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FactCheck: we shouldn’t rely on official cases per capita to compare local outbreaks
There are no easy answers.
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FactCheck Q&A: Boris Johnson’s offshore wind plans
The government has confirmed a previously-announced target to increase offshore wind capacity to 40GW by 2030.
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FactCheck: has government shifted goalposts on UK PPE production?
Boris Johnson says UK manufacturers are due to meet 70 per cent of demand in December.
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FactCheck: very few people are fined for not wearing masks
Some people think the prime minister’s father should be fined for shopping without a face covering. But new figures show the police rarely issue fines to anyone for breaking Covid-19 rules.
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FactCheck: is Starmer right that the government hasn’t investigated black maternity deaths?
We think Sir Keir’s comments omitted a key piece of context.
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FactCheck: new figures contradict ministers on Covid test journeys
New figures have been released today showing that the average journey to a coronavirus testing centre hasn’t got shorter at all.
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FactCheck: government won’t show evidence for number of people tested daily
No official body publishes figures on the number of people who are tested each day.
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FactCheck: were ‘mass hysterectomies’ performed on detainees at a US immigration centre?
Let’s take a look at what we know so far.
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FactCheck: ministers not telling the whole story on Covid test journeys
What kind of distances are people being asked to drive in the worst cases?
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FactCheck: conspiracy theory about DNA from Covid tests makes no sense
There is simply no connection between this change in the law – which is all about relieving pressure on police investigating terrorism – and the NHS Test and Trace programme.