Blog posts tagged "EU"

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.

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."

October 24, 2011 2:53 pm 30 Comments

Rebel Tory MPs are defying their party to call for a referendum on the UK's European Union membership. And according to John Redwood, the "overwhelming majority" of the British public is up in arms about it too.But Mr Redwood's comment rang rather hollow with one of our Twitter followers, Jamie Robertson, who asked us to check it out.

October 29, 2010 4:12 pm 13 Comments

FactCheck analyses Prime Minister David Cameron's claim that he "succeeded quite spectacularly" by persuading fellow European leaders to increase the EU budget by 3%.

3:49 pm 4 Comments

FactCheck analyses where EU member states' plans to create a new "permanent crisis mechanism" leave the Coalition Government's pledge to hold a referendum if new powers are transferred to Brussels.

October 28, 2010 1:53 pm 9 Comments

FactCheck analyses a claim from the Prime Minister and Treasury Chief Secretary that Labour MEPs voted for a 6% rise in the EU budget.

August 12, 2010 2:38 pm 4 Comments

“As we reduce our deficits, I think it is very important that we both argue to make sure that the European budget is, over time, reduced rather than increased.” David Cameron, August 12 2010

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?

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.