Posts belonging to Category "Conservatives"

May 15, 2012 6:07 pm 8 Comments

"All these things would take a toll on your wallet, not to mention your marriage, sanity etc."

May 4, 2012 5:23 pm 8 Comments

"His best predictions at time of writing are that Labour would win 34.04 per cent of the vote in the next general election, but the Conservatives would still be ahead on 36.59 per cent."

May 2, 2012 11:47 am 4 Comments

There have been tears, laughter, and the odd stray F-word. The London mayoral race has been high on emotion and more than usually bad-tempered. Boris Johnson has been slightly more careful with his facts, choosing to deal in aspirations rather than promises. Ken Livingstone has made some extravagant claims which have landed him in hot water. Here's the verdict from FactCheck HQ on a very irritable election.

March 21, 2012 6:54 pm 11 Comments

"It's such a huge shortfall that both sides have only just stopped short of accusing each other of cooking the books."

1:23 pm 2 Comments

"Is a true Briton to have no privacy? Are the fruits of his labour and toil to be picked over, farthing by farthing, by the pimply minions of bureaucracy?"

March 7, 2012 3:30 pm 9 Comments

"The actual cash saving this year is nothing like £445. It's £3.10, barely enough to buy you a pint of beer in a central London pub."

January 25, 2012 4:49 pm 18 Comments

Are there more people in work today than there were at the time of the last election as David Cameron claims? Channel 4 News FactCheck finds out.

December 22, 2011 1:05 pm 8 Comments

The biggest political porkies of 2011: Channel 4 News' FactCheck team run through the dodgiest politics claims of the year.

December 12, 2011 7:30 pm 9 Comments

"An EU-wide Robin Hood Tax – which John Major called a "heat-seeking missile" pointed at the heart of the Square Mile (surely it should have been an arrow?) - does now appear to have stalled on the launchpad."

December 2, 2011 5:45 pm 12 Comments

The claim “Is the Prime Minister aware that in the last financial year, taxpayers paid over £113 million to trade unions in terms of paid staff time and direct grants?” Laurence Robertson, 30 November 2011 “I think the idea of full-time trade unionists, working in the public sector on trade union business rather than serving [...]