Posts in category: 'UKIP'

07 May 13 29 Comments

FactCheck: Is Nigel Lawson right about quitting the EU?

A big intervention from one of the former heavyweights of the Thatcher era. But is Nigel Lawson right that EU membership is a burden for UK businesses?

27 Apr 12 21 Comments

FactCheck: Are Eastern Europeans to blame for social housing shortages?

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

12 Dec 11 9 Comments

FactCheck: Has Cameron saved the City from Sarkozy?

“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

31 Oct 11 58 Comments

FactCheck: What happens to the economy if we pull out of the EU?

“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

15 Apr 10 16 Comments

Is most of the UK's law made in Brussels?

UKIP’s leader, Lord Pearson, claims that most of Britain’s law is made in Brussels? But can that be true?

13 Apr 10 5 Comments

UKIP Manifesto 2010: expelling foreign criminals

UKIP Manifesto gets it wrong on the claim that the UK can’t expel foreign criminals from the another EU country.

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