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Fact check: Defence spending was mentioned in autumn Budget

Kemi Badenoch raised the issue of defence spending during her first Prime Minister’s Questions as leader of the Opposition on Wednesday November 6. Referring to Sir Keir Starmer, she told the House of Commons: “His Chancellor’s Budget did not even ...

06 Nov 2024 at 16:18

Fact check: UK Government has not announced free bus fares for immigrants

A TikTok account posted an image of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with a caption claiming that “they announced free bus fares for immigrants”. The post also said: “It’s obvious now why bus fares go up to£3.” Evaluation The UK Government has not ...

13 Nov 2024 at 14:56

Ireland

Fact check: Help To Buy incentive has had 124 claims a week since 2017

A social media post from Fine Gael said: “Help to Buy is helping 500 people every week buy their first home.” Evaluation Official statistics recorded by the Revenue Commissioners show that while there were around 500 applications a week for the ...

25 Oct 2024 at 11:59

Fact check: Photo of police and protesters is from 2011 student demonstration

A social media user posted a photo from picture agency Alamy of a crowd of police alongside the words: “Police turn out on a tuesday (sic) for the people that feed them, namely the farmers.” Evaluation The photo was taken during a student ...

20 Nov 2024 at 17:34

Ireland

FactCheck: How many children waited four months for scoliosis surgery in 2020?

A pledge made by Simon Harris when he was the minister for health in 2017 has come back into the spotlight after a recent interview on Virgin Media Television. The promise, made not long after Mr Harris became health minister, was that ...

21 Nov 2024 at 14:33

Fact check: Petition data shows how many people in MP’s constituency have signed

An X user reposted a comment and image from a fellow contributor on the platform which showed a snapshot of data of those who signed a petition calling for another general election. In their repost, they wrote: “Hey look their ...

27 Nov 2024 at 15:51

Personal Finance

Fact check: Savers have long had to pay tax if earning more than £1,000 interest

A widely shared video on social media claimed that the Government is “now going to tax you if you have savings of over £10,000”. Evaluation The Government does not tax people on their savings, but the interest earned on ...

13 Dec 2024 at 16:01

Fact check: Pensioners in Spain and France are excluded from winter fuel payment

A widely shared social media post implied that British pensioners on the Costa del Sol were claiming winter fuel payments. In response to a news article which said that 35,000 claimants of winter fuel payments live ...

26 Sept 2024 at 12:56

Meta ends fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favour of community notes

Meta is to scrap its longstanding fact-checking programme in favour of a community notes system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Instead of using news organisations or other third-party ...

08 Jan 2025 at 14:18

Fact check: Bank Levy tax collected £3.2bn in year ending 2016

In an interview on Sky News, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said that “the big banks, since 2016, have had tax cuts worth about £4.3 billion a year”. Evaluation The Liberal Democrats’ own calculation ...

07 Jun 2024 at 13:39

Fact check: There has been a 50% rise in British officers stationed with Europol

In a speech on Thursday November 14, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed to have “doubled the number of UK officers in Europol”. Evaluation It is unclear what Sir Keir is basing this statement on. ...

15 Nov 2024 at 16:23

Fact check: Council’s four-day week means staff paid 100% for 80% of usual hours

Following Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), a social media user posted: “Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs complaining about 4-day week. She thinks staff get an extra day off – less hours for same ...

15 Nov 2024 at 14:02

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