Jean-Claude Juncker’s frosty verdict
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is unimpressed by the summer homework done by David Davis and his Brexit team.
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North Korea has claimed that Donald Trump has declared war. The US president had said North Korea’s leaders “won’t be around much longer” and referred to Kim Jong-Un as “Little Rocket Man”. This followed Mr Trump’s speech to the UN last week in which he warned that America would “totally destroy” North Korea if the…
In his speech to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell announced a radical change in the way that a Labour government would pay for building new schools, hospitals and prisons. Huge public building projects would no longer be funded by private finance, and even existing PFI contracts would be “brought…
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The Conservative Party have suggested that Labour’s policy on the single market is unclear. But is that fair? FactCheck looked at what the party has said since the EU referendum was called last year. Ahead of the referendum Like the Conservative leadership, Labour’s official stance ahead of last year’s referendum was that Britain should stay…
Renewable energy is having a moment: next week, the result of competitive auctions for contracts to provide clean electricity for the UK will be revealed, and they’re likely to show that the cost of offshore wind power is now cheaper than ever before. The new generation of wind farms will be able to produce more…
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is unimpressed by the summer homework done by David Davis and his Brexit team.
HS2 has come under repeated criticism for bad planning and wasting money. Even the Department for Transport’s own former Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Roderick Smith has called for a “root-and-branch review” of the whole project. So what’s really going on? And how does the project compare to other high speed trains across the world?
Recycling has become a way of life in the UK. But recycling causes carbon emissions in itself – from the fuel used by collection lorries, to the energy taken to process the rubbish. So is it all worth it? FactCheck investigates.
The European parliament’s Brexit coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, has criticised the UK’s proposals for EU citizens. But the government has rebuffed his criticism, claiming Verhofstadt made “a number of inaccuracies”. FactCheck looked into the detail of what is being offered.
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Theresa May has been accused of bribing the DUP with a ‘magic money tree’, in a £1bn deal designed to keep the Tories in government. FactCheck took a look at the details.
The cost of holidays and your weekly shop have gone up. But is it all doom and gloom? FactCheck investigates.
Kensington and Chelsea brought in more money from Stamp Duty Land Tax than any other UK local authority in 2015/16.
Paul Nuttall seems to suggest that wearing the face veil is the reason for 58 per cent of Muslim women being economically inactive. That doesn’t make sense.