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FactCheck: Stop and search outcomes still vary by ethnicity
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, has defended the force’s stop and search tactics. There is no dispute that black Londoners are stopped and searched proportionally more often than white people, but Dick claimed this was not due to unfairness. FactCheck looked into the details.
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Jeremy Hunt’s misleading mental health claims
The government has announced a £1.3bn plan to expand the mental health workforce with a “challenging” recruitment drive. The aim is to help the NHS care for an additional one million patients by 2020-21, according to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. We put his claims to the FactCheck test.
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FactCheck: how students have been misled and lied to for 20 years
It’s been 20 years since Tony Blair first introduced tuition fees. Since then, students have been lied to, misled and betrayed by politicians and political parties. FactCheck uncovers the long history of broken promises and political U-turns.
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Here are 10 Tory U-turns since the election was called
FactCheck takes a look at 10 key Tory U-turns since the election was called.
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No, Corbyn did not ‘pledge to abolish student debt’
Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of U-turning on a pledge to scrap student debt. It follows a comment made during the election campaign, saying he would “deal with it”. But the context is important.
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FactCheck Q&A: How does HS2 compare to other bullet trains?
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?
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FactCheck Q&A: Could there be a nuclear Armageddon?
With North Korea claiming that it is now a ‘full-fledged nuclear power’, FactCheck assess the possibility of nuclear war. How many warheads exist around the world, and what would be the impact if they were used?
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FactCheck: is there a ‘skills gap’?
The Open University says a skills shortage is forcing employers to inflate wages “above market rate”. The claim has been repeated in the media, but FactCheck has a few concerns about the research.
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FactCheck Q&A: Are the Tories using a ‘magic money tree’ to keep them in power?
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.
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Here’s where the DUP and the Tories might disagree
Gay marriage, abortion and climate change. A few policies where the two partners might not have as much in common as they’d like to think.
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EU migration in five charts
What do we know about EU migrants living in the UK?
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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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Brexit negotiations start today. What’s going on?
361 days ago, Britain went to the ballot box to decide whether we should be the first member state to leave the European Union. 52 per cent of those that turned up chose to leave. Today is the first official day of divorce proceedings, after 44 years of rocky marriage. And like any break-up, it’ll…
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It’ll be tough for Corbyn to become Prime Minister without another election
Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is poised to take office imminently. But could he make it to Number 10 without another election? FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck Q&A: Is Saudi Arabia funding ISIS?
The Wikileaks files suggest there have been western efforts to “bring pressure” on Saudi Arabia to end its support for ISIS.