Blog posts tagged "Conservatives"

February 18, 2011 5:32 pm 30 Comments

FactCheck analyses claims made about AV by David Cameron and Nick Clegg

December 16, 2010 5:39 pm 5 Comments

CutsCheck analyses whether police cuts announced this week by the Home Office are worse than individual force had been expecting.

December 8, 2010 6:19 pm 12 Comments

FactCheck analyses Ed Miliband's claim that tuition fees in England will be the highest in the industrialised world - and David Cameron's claim that students in the US pay more.

December 7, 2010 5:52 pm 15 Comments

FactCheck analyses how many Liberal Democrat MPs will rebel in the vote on university tuition fees.

December 3, 2010 11:48 am 3 Comments

CutsCheck analyses which police forces will be hit the hardest by government spending cuts.

December 2, 2010 7:12 pm 1 Comment

The claim “It’s going to be perfectly satisfactory to have the 250,000 tonnes (of salt) delivered progressively during the course of December and into early January.” Transport Secretary Philip Hammond, House of Commons debate, 2 December 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out We were supposed to have learnt the lessons from last year’s snow chaos, [...]

4:53 pm 7 Comments

FactCheck analyses how important the student vote is to the Liberal Democrats

November 25, 2010 7:06 pm 17 Comments

The claim “We’re going to have a system where the middle classes are discouraged from breeding because it’s jolly expensive, but for those on benefit there is every incentive.” Lord Flight, interviewed by the Evening Standard, 25th November 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out Howard Flight first said his remarks had been taken out of [...]

November 24, 2010 5:36 pm 3 Comments

FactCheck analyses David Cameron's claim that Labour supports the government's plan to withdraw the mobility component of disability living allowance from people in state-funded care homes.

November 23, 2010 6:30 am 8 Comments

FactCheck analyses Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's commitment to "cut the deficit, not the NHS".