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FactCheck: Are Eastern Europeans to blame for social housing shortages?
April 27, 2012 5:16 pm 20 Comments
Is UKIP's Nigel Farage right about immigrants snapping up all the social housing? "All you have to do now if you come from Eastern Europe, all you have to do is to get a national insurance number - which you can get easily within a fortnight - and then you qualify automatically for social housing," he said. FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck: Has Cameron saved the City from Sarkozy?
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."
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FactCheck: What happens to the economy if we pull out of the EU?
October 31, 2011 4:59 pm 45 Comments
"As a Daily Mail poll showed that 77 per cent of Conservative Party members believe there should be a referendum on Britain's continuing membership of the EU, Mr Clegg launched a defence of the economic benefits of staying in Europe."
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Is most of the UK's law made in Brussels?
April 15, 2010 6:37 pm 16 Comments
UKIP's leader, Lord Pearson, claims that most of Britain's law is made in Brussels? But can that be true?
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UKIP Manifesto 2010: expelling foreign criminals
April 13, 2010 6:28 pm 5 Comments
UKIP Manifesto gets it wrong on the claim that the UK can't expel foreign criminals from the another EU country.

