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FactCheck: Raab says workers better off by £4,000 a year under Conservatives
The figure doesn’t account for inflation.
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FactCheck: Johnson tax cut claim doesn’t add up
It looks like the true figure is 10.9 per cent, not 20 per cent.
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Bulk of money from new levy will not be spent on social care in early years
Less than £5.5 billion of the £12 billion raised will actually go towards social care in the first three years.
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Over 30 Brits bid to become first physically disabled astronaut
More than 250 people have applied to a project which hopes to send a physically disabled person into space for the first time. Since it was launched earlier this year, 257 people have applied for the European Space Agency’s (Esa) “parastronaut feasibility project”, including 20 men and 11 women from the UK, Channel 4 News…
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Fears serious offenders could end up on street after charity project’s closure
On Friday, the project run by the charity Change Grow Live will close for good.
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The reality of British children in poverty: no beds to sleep in or clean clothes to wear
Exclusive. Britain’s leading children’s charities are warning that cuts to children’s services, which are having the greatest impact on the poorest, most vulnerable families, risk leaving a “damaging legacy”.
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Maternity care in England needs urgent improvement to prevent unnecessary baby deaths, MPs warn
Maternity care in England needs urgent improvement to prevent unnecessary deaths, MPs have warned, highlighting the shortage of midwives and a persistent culture of blame.
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UK faces ‘potentially catastrophic’ risks from pandemic, soaring debt and climate change, warns fiscal watchdog
Britain faces a triple threat and “potentially catastrophic” risks from the pandemic, a soaring debt mountain and climate change, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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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 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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Explained: The impact of UK foreign aid cuts
The details and impact of the cuts to the foreign aid budget are only now beginning to emerge.
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Anger as UK helps poorer countries fight Covid – by slashing other aid
Labour and Conservative MPs have criticised the government for including help for poorer countries battling Covid in its overseas aid budget – a decision that could lead to even deeper cuts in other areas than already expected.
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FactCheck: government hasn’t spent half of promised cladding cash
Some £1.6bn was due to have been spent by 31 March this year.
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How Tories claimed victory in Tees Valley mayoral race
The Conservatives wanted three key victories last night: along with Hartlepool they wanted to keep their mayors in the West Midlands and the Tees Valley.
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Foreign secretary outlines details of aid spending cuts amid MPs’ anger
In the last couple of hours, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has released further details of the cuts being made to foreign aid.