Public spending

Its claim and counter-claim from the Tories and Labour over how the Tories can make even more efficiency savings than are already being made.

Liberal Democrats join in on the row over Tory tax plans? They claim there’s a £13.5bn black hole – FactCheck takes a closer look.

SNP make a number of claims about how the 2012 Olympics are detrimental to the Scottish economy.

Labour’s dossier on Tory tax and spend gets a thorough going over by FactCheck

Plaid Cymru accuses the “London parties” of planning to slash & burn budgets in Wales

FactCheck looks at a range of statements from the “Ask the Chancellors” debate on Channel 4

How much with the stamp duty holiday cost the exchequer?

Alistair Darling claimed government departments will make £11bn of efficiences which will go towards reducing borrowing in his 2010 Budget statement. FactCheck puts it to the test.

David Cameron claims that Labour election leaflets “are quite simply lies” when they say his party would cut the winter fuel allowance, free bus travel and the free TV licence.

Channel 4 News FactCheck runs the rule over Philip Hammond’s claim that cutting Child Trust Funds and Child Tax Credits will save over £1bn.

Today Channel 4 relaunches FactCheck a blog drawing on the fact-checking skills of the Channel 4 News team, including Political Correspondent Cathy Newman.

A quick one from the archive: we cast our eye back over some of the most dubious statements made by politicians of all kinds last year, as debunked by FactCheck. Miscounting Gurkhas “What I can’t do, which is what some are asking me to do but the judge did not, is to grant every Gurkha…