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FactCheck: the government’s voter ID plans
What could it mean for future elections?
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Series 3, Episode 21: Nesrine Malik
Journalist and author Nesrine Malik on the challenging society’s myths, the BBC racism row and shaking up the media.
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Former C4 News presenter Peter Sissons dies at 77
The former newsreader Peter Sissons has died at the age of 77.
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Broadcasting world mourns first Channel 4 News presenter Peter Sissons
He welcomed viewers to the first edition of Channel 4 News when the programme was launched in 1982 and went on to present the show for seven years.
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FactCheck: Jeremy Corbyn on the ‘wage slump’
Have we really had ‘the greatest slump in wages since the first steam trains were built’?
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FactCheck: supreme court ruling on prorogation explained
So what does it mean? And what happens next? We’ve lined up some political and constitutional experts to help us explain.
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FactCheck Q&A: what did Boris Johnson mean when he said there were ‘no press’ at his hospital visit?
It’s possible that Boris Johnson had something else in mind when he implied that the people filming his hospital visit were not “press” – and this gives us an insight into how politicians try to manage the media.
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What would a ‘hard border’ in Northern Ireland actually look like?
Leo Varadkar’s office has told FactCheck that Ireland would not build any physical infrastructure on the border – even if there is no deal.
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FactCheck: Corbyn’s changing Brexit stance
Is Labour now the party of remain?
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FactCheck: Johnson on Scottish taxes
The Prime Minister said Scotland has ‘the highest taxes anywhere in Europe.’
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FactCheck: can no-deal Brexit be stopped?
There are just two months to go before we’re due to leave.
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FactCheck: No evidence for government’s plastic straw claims
The government says up to 47 million straws enter the sea from the UK each year. But now it admits that’s just an assumption – and appears to have no evidence to back it up.
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FactCheck: is Boris Johnson really giving the NHS “new money”?
NHS experts have cast doubt on whether the £1.8bn is really new, and whether it is enough to make a difference to cash-strapped hospitals.
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FactCheck: how many new border staff are we really getting?
Ministers have announced that UK Border Force would be hiring 500 more people to cope with the possible fall-out of leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
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FactCheck: will sheep farmers suffer in a no-deal Brexit?
About 35 per cent of Welsh lamb is exported overseas, and 92.5 per cent of those exports go to the EU.