Blog posts tagged "Labour"

September 28, 2011 2:55 pm 3 Comments

FactCheck is a bit mystified. Labour's press office pinged out a preview of Yvette Cooper's speech this morning, which obviously we leapt on with our fine toothed factchecking comb. And something caught our eye. The release, published on Politics Home, announced that Yvette Cooper would say at Conference today that Labour was "the first government in a hundred years where crime went down and not up".

September 26, 2011 5:02 pm 8 Comments

Ed Balls doesn't really do contrition. He flirted with the idea on the Today programme this morning when he said sorry for the failure of banking regulations, and admitted that not every pound had been well spent by Labour.

February 18, 2011 5:32 pm 30 Comments

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

December 8, 2010 7:21 pm 5 Comments

Labour accuses the government of breaking its promise to increase spending on the health service in real terms. Are they right?

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 2, 2010 4:53 pm 7 Comments

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

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".

November 11, 2010 6:04 pm 6 Comments

FactCheck analyses Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson's claim that Labour "paid down debt" and controlled borrowing.

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.