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FactCheck: bankers’ bonuses
The background Ed Miliband scented blood at today’s session of prime minister’s questions on the subject of City bonuses. The 81 per cent taxpayer-owned investment bank RBS has apparently been lobbying...
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FactCheck: are you poorer than you were in 2010?
The claims “Average wages are down by 1,600 a year since the election.” Ed Miliband, 22 January 2014 “Because the leader of the opposition keeps quoting the figure without the tax cuts that we have put...
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Has Labour hit the Tory weak spot in the battle of the sexes? FactCheck
The claim “Why, for the first time in five years, has the gap between men and women’s pay increased? …because the minimum wage is losing value, because of the growth of zero hours contracts, and the...
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FactCheck Scotland: has the Scottish government protected the NHS?
The claim “We’ve protected Scotland’s NHS from the Tories’ cuts.” Alex Neil The background The yes campaign says independence is the best way to protect the NHS in Scotland. But confidential documents...
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FactCheck: what we learned in 2014
Pride comes before a fall Owen Paterson was already a well-known figure at the beginning of last year after he said badgers sentenced to death under the government’s trial cull had “moved the...
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FactCheck: Cameron vs Miliband – the dodgy claims to watch out for
David Cameron and Ed Miliband will be making their big pitch to voters tonight in the first big set-piece TV election debate. The Prime Minister and the Labour leader won’t actually be debating with...
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FactCheck: Cameron’s blind spots on zero hours and food banks
David Cameron has been accused of dodging questions on his record as prime minister. Labour – and some media commentators – are suggesting Mr Cameron failed to answer properly questions on food banks...
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FactCheck: does Cameron have ’10 days to save the union’?
The prime minister says he has 10 days to save the United Kingdom from the clutches of Nicola Sturgeon. If the Tories don’t win an outright majority next week, Britain will end up with a weak Labour...
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FactCheck Q&A: can Ed Miliband be prime minister?
Ed Miliband emphatically ruled out a coalition or a deal with the SNP last night. Does that mean he’s ruling himself out as prime minister? Was he on course to win anyway? Who’s going to win the...
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FactCheck: the dodgiest claims of the election campaign
We’ve been keeping an eye on statements made by all the major parties since the “long campaign” began just before Christmas. The questionable factual claims, half-truths and outright fibs have come...
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