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Ken Clarke: ‘No obvious leadership contender’ to challenge Theresa May
Former Cabinet Minister Ken Clarke, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable, and Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner discuss Theresa May’s future, Brexit, austerity and the Grenfell Tower fire.
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FactCheck Q&A: how posh is Parliament?
With a new crop of MPs entering the House of Commons, the media has celebrated “the most diverse Parliament yet”. There are now record numbers of women, ethnic minorities and openly LGBT MPs in the Parliament (although there is still under-representation of these groups). But how about other things, like education and occupation? Do our MPs’ social…
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FactCheck: Corbyn wrong on working-class students
Most of the evidence does not support the Labour leader’s claim.
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Paul Nuttall’s misleading claim about Muslim women
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.
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The SNP manifesto
Lots of rhetoric, but the detail is lacking. Is the SNP really the anti-austerity party it claims to be?
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How much will Labour’s childcare policy cost?
Jeremy Corbyn was unable to put a figure on how much his party’s proposal to offer 30 hours of childcare a week for all two-year-olds would cost. In an interview for Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour this morning, the Labour leader was repeatedly asked to explain how much public money would be needed to fund the…
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Theresa May relaunches campaign ahead of Paxman debate
Theresa May has been defending her record on security at a campaign event in Twickenham today – claiming she had excluded more hate preachers from the country as Home Secretary than ever before. But is the issue proving so important to voters – or are they still making decisions on the bedrock issues like health,…
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FactCheck Q&A: Which party has a better track record on the economy?
Who has the better record on managing the economy: Labour or the Conservatives?
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Higher taxes and spending in Labour manifesto
Jeremy Corbyn has launched Labour’s manifesto with pledges to make the richest pay more tax. Mr Corbyn said it would fund billions of pounds in new spending on education, health and social care, scrap university tuition fees and renationalise the railways, Royal Mail, and public utilities. Some critics called it a return to the 70s,…
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FactCheck: the Labour manifesto
How can you increase borrowing but promise to lower the national debt at the same time?
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Labour and Lib Dems promise more schools spending
Billions more for schools across England: that’s the promise from Labour and the Lib Dems, who’ve both made substantial funding pledges to boost education. The Conservatives accused them both of “made-up promises”.
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FactCheck Q&A: the school funding crisis
The core school budget may be protected, but student numbers and costs are rising. In real terms, that means schools are facing the biggest funding cuts since the 1990s.
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Schools debate: Michael Gove v Angela Rayner
Former education secretary Michael Gove and the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.
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Grammar schools and social mobility
England’s schools should be open to all – and help students from ‘ordinary working families’ – the education secretary Justine Greening has said today. She insists a new generation of grammar schools will do more to attract pupils from less affluent backgrounds.
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FactCheck: Conservatives are cutting school funding in real terms
How to make sense of this? Should you be worried if you have school-age children?