# claims

claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-crowded-railway-station-black-and-white/
title: Photograph of crowded railway station is from Ukraine in March 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A black-and-white photograph of a crowded railway station looks like it could have been taken in 1941, but actually shows a scene from Ukraine in March 2022.


text: The AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines contain aborted human and monkey cells.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-QA-graphic/
title: Inaccurate Covid vaccine ‘Q&A’: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Partly false. Both vaccines use cell lines derived from aborted foetal cells but those cells do not make it into the final vaccine. Neither contain or use monkey cells.


text: The UK bought all the Midazolam France had.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-video-covid-vaccine/
title: Influencer video full of untrue vaccine claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that all of the Midazolam stockpiled in the UK for the Covid-19 crisis was sourced within the UK and was produced for the UK market. It appears that this claim is based on reports of some French-label versions of the drug being stockpiled for use in the UK.


text: There are almost 5,000 fewer fully qualified GPs today than a decade ago.
claimant: Wes Streeting
claim_date: 2023-08-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-numbers-labour-wes-streeting/
title: Wes Streeting column claiming 5,000 drop in GPs over last decade amended - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is not clear what data Mr Streeting used to calculate this drop. But NHS England says that its general practice workforce data pre-September 2015 is not comparable to the currently published figures. While we have not received any response from the Labour Party the article by Mr Streeting has since been amended.


text: Under Boris Johnson’s tenure as Mayor of London, the murder rate was cut by 50%.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2018-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/what-happened-violent-crime-london-2008/
title: What happened to violent crime in London since 2008? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Roughly correct. We only have figures for homicides, which include more than just murders. The homicide rate halved between 2007 and 2014, before ticking back up slightly.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine-compared-to-flu-vaccine/
title: It's incorrect to say flu vaccines don't work - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Health Organisation states that there are up to 650,000 deaths per year associated with respiratory illnesses linked to seasonal flu.

textual_rating:
Correct. Between 290,000 and 650,000 respiratory deaths per year globally are attributed to the flu.


text: Fluoride is the same ingredient used in rat poison and Prozac.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fluoride-claims/
title: Not all these claims about fluoride are accurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Sodium fluoride has been used as a rat poison in the past but the fluoride in that is at much higher concentrations than is found in tap water or toothpaste. Prozac’s main ingredient is fluoxetine hydrochloride – which contains fluoride but also consists of other elements in a very different structure.


text: In the UK, women earn less than men.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/UK_gender_pay_gap/
title: Do women earn less than men in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true overall. The gender pay gap is 9.1% per hour for full time employees in the UK, or £1.32 per hour. It isn’t true just for part-time work or every individual age group, and the size of the gap varies across different types of job.


text: The Brexit withdrawal deal doesn’t guarantee we’d stay in a customs union.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2018-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-withdrawal-deal-and-future-trade-dealwhats-difference/
title: Brexit withdrawal deal and future trade deal—what’s the difference? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Technically correct, but the withdrawal agreement isn’t meant to deal with future trade. It does outline a backup trade deal which involves something similar to a customs union, but the permanent future trade relationship is a matter for future negotiations.


text: Claiming to be living alone is one of the most common types of benefit fraud.
claimant: Department for Work and Pensions
claim_date: 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/benefit-fraud-living-alone/
title: Falsely claiming to live alone accounts for around 9% of benefit fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It was probably the fourth most common type of benefit fraud in 2016/17 where the specific reason was known, accounting for an estimated 9% of overpayments relating to fraud.


text: Volodymyr Zelenskyy translates into “evil rules the world”.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-google-translate/
title: Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not translate to ‘evil rules the world’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true, though taking groups of letters from within the name, and translating them badly, can result in similar sentences.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/baby-heart-outside-chest/
title: Sharing picture of baby with rare heart condition will not raise money - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows a baby who was born with their heart outside their body and they receive money every time the post is shared.

textual_rating:
The photo is of a baby born in 2017 and there is no evidence any money is raised by sharing the image.


claimant: Rob Roos
claim_date: 2022-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-transmission-test/
title: Claims that Pfizer vaccine wasn’t tested on preventing transmission need context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Pfizer executive has admitted the company did not test whether its Covid-19 vaccine stopped transmission of the virus before its launch.

textual_rating:
Pfizer was always clear it did not test whether the vaccines reduced the risk of transmission among already-infected individuals. But the trial did show the vaccines reduced infection risk in the first place, so reduced the risk of onward infection.


text: Mass migration pushes down wages.
claimant: Steven Woolfe MEP
claim_date: 2016-09-29T00:00:00Z
title: Does "uncontrolled mass migration" push down wages? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-has-small-effect-average-wages-more-significant-effects-specific-groups/

textual_rating:
UK research suggests that immigration has a small impact on average wages of existing workers but more significant effects for certain groups: low-wage workers lose while medium and high-paid workers gain.


claimant: Turning Point UK
claim_date: 2023-07-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/muslims-arent-exempt-from-stamp-duty/
title: Having a sharia-compliant mortgage doesn’t mean stamp duty isn’t paid - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In the UK you are exempt from paying stamp duty when you purchase a property if you follow sharia law.

textual_rating:
Stamp duty still has to be paid on liable properties with a sharia-compliant mortgage. Rules were changed in 2003 to mean it’s only paid once with these types of house-buying products instead of twice.


text: Leave.EU was cleared of a number of things and no criminal charges were brought against them.
claimant: Fiona Bruce
claim_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/eu-referendum-electoral-commission-fines/
title: BBC Question Time get themselves in a mess over who broke electoral law - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Both the Metropolitan Police and the National Crime Agency closed investigations into Leave.EU with no charges brought. However Leave.EU was found by the Electoral Commission to have broken electoral law, and paid a fine.


text: 12,526 NHS doctors moved to Australia in 2021 and 2022.
claimant: Twitter username
claim_date: 2023-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/doctors-nhs-rishi-sunak-australia/
title: How many doctors are moving to Australia? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The data doesn’t seem to support this. This appears to refer to the number of certificates of good standing issued to doctors in 2021 and 2022. A doctor planning to work overseas can apply for a certificate from the General Medical Council but the data does not tell us whether the medic actually went abroad, where they went, or if they have come back.


text: Withdrawing cash impacts a person’s credit score.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cash-withdrawals-credit-score/
title: Only cash withdrawals using a credit card, not a debit card, impact on a credit score - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Withdrawing cash on a credit card can negatively impact a person’s credit score. Withdrawing cash on a debit card does not impact credit scores, but it may affect a different financial measure called ‘affordability’.


text: Rigevidon is a cheap pill to prescribe.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-are-possible-side-effects-contraceptive-pill-rigevidon/
title: What are the possible side effects of the contraceptive pill Rigevidon? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is one of the cheaper combined contraceptive pills the NHS prescribes in England, at around £8 a year. In contrast, one of the most expensive pills costs around £63 a year.


text: Nicotine increases blood flow which can cause heart attacks.
claimant: Lou Deanie
claim_date: 2022-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaping-harms/
title: Vaping harms overstated in viral video - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Nicotine may increase or decrease blood flow in different situations, but the British Heart Foundation says nicotine “is not a significant health hazard for people without heart conditions”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/zuckerberg-grandson-rockerfeller/
title: Mark Zuckerberg is not David Rockerfeller’s grandson - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: None of this is true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Rothschilds own nearly 10% of all Facebook shares and Facebook was funded by $500 billion from a CIA-owned bank.


text: The number of NHS overnight beds has fallen by a fifth over the last decade.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2017-02-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/number-nhs-hospital-beds-has-fallen/
title: The number of NHS hospital beds has fallen - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number has fallen, but we don’t know by how far. The bed count included more things a decade ago, so this claim isn’t based on a fair comparison.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/social-media-food-covid-tests/
title: Acidic foods don’t test positive for Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tomatoes, raspberries, blackberries and lemons produce positive lateral flow test results for Covid-19.

textual_rating:
These foods break the lateral flow devices creating a fake “positive” result. This doesn’t tell us anything about whether the tests are reliable when used correctly.


text: There are fewer police officers.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/police-budgets-numbers-and-community-policing/
title: Police budgets, numbers and community policing - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The number of police officers in England and Wales has fallen by just under 20,000 since 2010.


text: NASA just hired 24 theologians to assess how the world would react if we discovered alien life.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-12-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nasa-theologians-aliens/
title: NASA hasn’t ‘just’ hired 24 theologians to study future discovery of aliens - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
NASA did fund a programme undertaken by 24 theologians to study how major religions would react to the discovery of alien life, but did not directly hire the academics. The NASA funding for the programme ended in 2017.


text: 10% of criminal barristers have quit in the past year.
claimant: BBC
claim_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/criminal-barristers-quitting/
title: 10% of criminal barristers haven’t quit in the past year - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure refers to the fall in the number of lawyers working full-time on publicly-funded criminal cases. The total number of criminal barristers has stayed stable.


text: 1% of the population owns 50% of the wealth of the country
claimant: Arron Banks
claim_date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-wealth-1-percent/
title: UK wealth: how much is owned by the 1%? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That seems likely to be an overestimate. It may be a reference to estimates for the whole world rather than just the UK.


text: The number of hospital beds fell by 25,000 in the last six years of the last Labour government.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/number-hospital-beds-falling/
title: Who's cutting hospital bed numbers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, the number of overnight beds in the English NHS actually fell by slightly more—about 26,000—between 2003/04 and 2009/10.


text: Diane Abbott said that Chairman Mao did more good than harm.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2008-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/diane-abbott-mao/
title: Diane Abbott did say that Chairman Mao did more good than harm - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. During an episode of This Week in 2008 she said “I suppose that some people would judge that on balance Mao did more good than harm”.


text: There are four million 17 year-olds that turn 18 before the November election.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-4-million-17-year-olds-UK-election/
review_date: 2019-10-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
This image claiming there are four million 17 year-olds who’ll be able to vote in the election is not about the UK - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect—there are only around 725,000 17 year-olds in the UK. The general election is set to be on 12 December.


claimant: Kieran Mullan
claim_date: 2020-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/october-2020-poverty-rates/
title: How poverty rates are cherry-picked to score political points - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are roughly 14 million people living in relative poverty this year. In 2000, there were roughly 14 million people living in relative poverty.

textual_rating:
The latest government figures show 14.5 million people (22% of the population) living in relative low income households after housing costs in the UK. In 2000/01 it was 13 million across Great Britain (23% of the population).


text: Labour is pushing Theresa May for a UK-wide Customs Union.
claimant: Lisa Nandy
claim_date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/labour-customs-union-single-market/
title: What is Labour’s policy on the customs union and single market? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Labour says it wants to whole of the UK to be outside the EU customs union after Brexit, but in a new customs union with similar levels of access, and the ability to strike free trade deals. This, like the government’s Chequers proposal, is likely to be unpalatable to the EU. It’s hard to judge how feasible this would be as a negotiating position, but it seems to fall foul of the EU’s red lines.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-hoax-missing-george-smith/
title: Hundreds share hoax Facebook appeal for missing man called George - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A man named George, 74, with dementia has gone missing after leaving home in his car. There is a silver alert activated in response to his disappearance.

textual_rating:
This is not a real appeal. The man pictured has been found after going missing in the US and silver alerts are not used in the UK. Various hoax posts use different surnames for the man.


text: Children are suddenly dying of strep A this year.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/something-added-to-flu-vaccine-strep-a/
title: Nothing has been ‘added’ to the children’s flu vaccine to cause strep A - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Invasive group A strep has previously caused deaths in children, and although deaths are rare, infections do appear to be higher than usual for this point in the season in England at the moment.


text: Rishi Sunak approved £4.3 billion of Covid loans to fraudsters.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2022-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-ppe-burnt-claims/
title: Labour overstates amount spent on ‘dodgy PPE’ which will be burnt - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This appears to refer to the amount lost to fraud and error via the income support and Eat Out to Help Out schemes which HMRC does not expect to recover.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-times-poll-misleading/
title: Times graph on Boris Johnson’s leadership mixes up poll results - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
60% of Conservative voters would like someone other than Boris Johnson to be Prime Minister in a year’s time.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. 60% of all voters gave this answer, in a YouGov survey published by the Times. Only 36% of Conservative voters wanted someone else to be Prime Minister in a year.


text: New data shows that there’s a record number of teachers in England’s schools.
claimant: Department for Education
claim_date: 2023-06-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/teacher-pupil-numbers/
title: England has fewer teachers relative to the number of school pupils than in 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true that the number of full-time equivalent teachers in England is the highest since comparable records began in 2010/11. But pupil numbers have increased at a faster rate, meaning there are now fewer teachers relative to the number of pupils than in 2010.


claimant: Aseem Malhotra
claim_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bbc-malhotra-vaccines-excess-deaths/
title: Excess deaths would be higher without Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 mRNA vaccines are a likely contributing factor to the number of excess deaths in the UK.

textual_rating:
A few dozen people have died as a result of a Covid-19 vaccination, but the vaccines have also prevented tens of thousands of deaths. This means that on balance there would have been more excess deaths without them.


text: 11 million people don’t have a passport or driving license.
claimant: Cat Smith MP
claim_date: 2019-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/voter-id-2019/
title: Voter ID scheme: far more turned away than convicted of electoral fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for Great Britain according to research from 2015 – there isn’t a more up-to-date figure.


claimant: Jonathan Reynolds
claim_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-20-uplift-therese-coffey-labour/
title: Universal Credit: Do politicians' claims about working more hours add up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Again this will be true for some Universal Credit recipients, but can’t be applied to everyone.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A single parent working on the minimum wage and already working full-time would need to work more than nine hours a week on top of that full-time job to earn back the £20 uplift and make up for the rise in National Insurance.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ptfe-masks-symptoms/
title: PTFE in masks does not pose a health risk, unless you get it very hot - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
PTFE in masks can lead to symptoms such as fever, chest tightness, shortness of breath, headache, cough, chills, sore throat.

textual_rating:
This appears to be describing polymer fume fever, which only happens if someone is exposed to PTFE heated to high temperatures.


text: 38% of infections outside of the home are caught in schools
claimant: The Skwawkbox
claim_date: 2020-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-transmission-schools-claims/
title: Fact-checking claims on coronavirus transmission in schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This data refers to the number of Covid-19 incidents reported by local health teams. It does not represent all non-domestic transmission and it is misleading to suggest this.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/citric-acid-black-mould/
title: Citric acid is not being used by ‘evil forces’ to harm population - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Citric acid is a poison derived from black mould and is deliberately being used to harm the population.

textual_rating:
It is true that manufactured citric acid is made from a type of mould, but it is generally recognised as safe. There is no evidence it is being used in a plot to harm the population.


text: An asteroid bigger than Big Ben is due to crash into the Earth’s atmosphere on 11 January.
claimant: Bristol Live
claim_date: 2021-12-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/asteroid-big-ben-earth-atmosphere/
title: A giant asteroid isn’t about to ‘crash into the Earth’s atmosphere’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. It’s expected to come within 3.5 million miles of the Earth’s surface, far beyond the reaches of our atmosphere.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/10-billion-whats-going-on/
title: £10 billion or £4.5 billion: what's going on with NHS spending? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Health Select Committee has said that the government's extra funding for health is actually £4.5 billion rather than £10 billion.

textual_rating:
This is correct for funding over this parliament. Overall health spending will increase by £4.5 billion, after you take inflation into account. The £10 billion includes an extra year of spending and only refers to the NHS England budget rather than wider health spending.


text: The “vast majority” of those dying from Covid-19 in the UK now are unvaccinated.
claimant: Today in Focus
claim_date: 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-guardian-podcast-vaccinated-deaths/
title: Guardian wrong to suggest unvaccinated deaths are the majority currently - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The most recent report from the UKHSA, including data from England, shows that there are currently more deaths in vaccinated, rather than unvaccinated, people. This is due to the high proportion of the population who are now vaccinated.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2017-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Two thirds of people with mental health conditions claiming PIP receive the higher daily living allowance compared to less than a quarter under DLA.

url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/are-people-mental-health-conditions-now-receiving-higher-disability-benefit-payments/

title:
Are people with mental health conditions now receiving higher disability benefit payments? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The figures are correct, 66% compared to 22%, but fewer people are claiming PIP, and only 39% of those who have moved from DLA to PIP have been awarded more money than they were receiving under DLA.


text: A million children have been gang raped and groomed in the UK.
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/one-million-grooming/
review_date: 2020-07-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Many children have been the victims of grooming gangs, but there’s no evidence for a figure of one million - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This figure is not reliable. It appears to come from assuming that the number of suspected cases of child sexual exploitation in 2018/19 can be multiplied by 30 years—which still does not reach one million. We don’t know what the true number is.


text: 11 million people are financially at risk from the cladding crisis.
claimant: Financial Times
claim_date: 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/11-million-cladding-crisis/
title: Labour’s figures on the cladding crisis are far too high - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This estimate is much too high. The true number of residents affected is probably more like 760,000. Landlords of another 600,000 properties will also be affected. The total will be much less than 11 million, which seems to be more than all the people living in flats in the UK.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-care-homes-guidance/
review_date: 2020-05-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is incorrect. The guidance did say this. It was withdrawn on 13 March.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
It’s not true that until 12 March, the government’s advice said it was ‘very unlikely’ people in care homes will become infected.

title:
Government guidance did say it was ‘very unlikely’ people in care homes would be infected with Covid-19 - Full Fact


text: The Lib Dems quadrupled renewable power in government.
claimant: Ed Davey
claim_date: 2019-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/renewable-energy-coalition/
title: Did the Lib Dems quadruple renewable energy? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It was slightly closer to tripling than quadrupling, under the Conservative Lib Dem Coalition. But it’s difficult to attribute energy generation to any one party in government as some generators can take years to commission and build.


text: Coronavirus killed 9 people out of 66.6 million yesterday.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-obesity-mortality/
title: Covid-19 has killed more people than obesity in the UK this year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was the death toll on 9 September, but it has risen since then. At its peak, more than 1,000 people were dying daily in the UK.


text: Suicide is killing more people than Covid-19 in September 2021.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/suicide-not-killing-more-than-coronavirus/
title: Covid-19 is almost certainly killing more people than suicide - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is almost certainly untrue. We do not yet have exact numbers for either cause of death, but the evidence we have on 16 September 2021 suggests that Covid deaths are probably several times higher.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/
review_date: 2021-07-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Everybody who’s self-isolating is entitled, in addition to the equivalent of the living wage and statutory sick pay, to help in extreme circumstances from their local councils and also to a £500 payment to help them with self-isolation.

title:
Boris Johnson was wrong to say that “everybody” is entitled to extra self-isolation support - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Employees who are self-isolating are entitled to statutory sick pay which is not equivalent to the living wage. Support from councils in extreme circumstances is an alternative, not additional, to the £500 payment, and only available to those on benefits or in hardship.


claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2019-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/three-million-more-patients-good-outstanding-hospitals/
title: Are three million more patients using good or outstanding hospitals? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There were 2.7 million more patients every year using good and outstanding hospitals at the end of Jeremy Hunt’s tenure as Health Secretary than at the beginning.

textual_rating:
This is how many more admissions there were in 2017/18 to hospital trusts that had improved their rating to good or outstanding (between 2013 and 2019) than admissions to trusts that had dropped their rating to requires improvement or inadequate.


text: The UK is the fifth richest country in the world.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-sixth-or-ninth-richest-country/
title: Claim about UK wealth and poverty is flawed - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In terms of total GDP, it is the sixth- or ninth-richest, depending on which measure you use. In terms of GDP per capita, it is the 20th- or 27th-richest.


text: These images are all from Black Lives Matter protests in London last weekend.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/blm-protest-london-pictures/
review_date: 2020-06-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Half of these images of injured police officers are not from recent Black Lives Matter protests - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not true. Three of the images are from last weekend’s protests, the others are from protests in the UK dating back to 2016.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/coronavirus-job-loss-guardian/
title: Guardian report on public opinion about job losses needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nearly half the population thinks the reason people lost their jobs in the pandemic was due to their own underperformance.

textual_rating:
A survey found 47% of the population think job performance is an important factor in recent job losses, not necessarily the main reason.


text: 4.1 billion people were expected to watch the Queen’s funeral worldwide.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2022-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Queen-funeral-viewing-figures/
title: Did several billion people watch the Queen’s funeral? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The figure appears to be based on one estimate, from a TV analyst from the WatchTVAbroad.com website, and it’s unclear how it was calculated. We couldn’t find any data to support this claim.


text: Covid-19 vaccines have caused 1,213 deaths.
claimant: Piers Corbyn
claim_date: 2021-06-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Piers-Corbyn-wrong-covid-vaccine-figures/
title: Piers Corbyn makes misleading claims about vaccine deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This is the number of deaths within seven days of vaccination reported through the Yellow Card scheme, but this does not mean the vaccines caused these deaths.


text: 2.6 million WASPI women are affected by the changes to the state pension age.
claimant: Chris Elmore MP
claim_date: 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/increasing-state-pension-age/
title: Increasing the state pension age - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. 2.6 million women (and 2.3 million men) are affected by the changes made in 2011. Other women are affected by earlier changes.


text: Homeopathic nosodes could help with vaccine side effects.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nosodes-homeopathy-vaccine/
title: No evidence homeopathic nosodes can help side effects from vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to indicate that this is true. A 2010 House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report on homeopathy said that homeopathic remedies perform no better than placebos.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/minimum-wage-pension-comparison/
title: Comparison of minimum wage and state pension incomes is out of date - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government minimum wage so that people can live reasonably is £8.72 an hour, which equals £15,070.00 per year.

textual_rating:
While this may have been broadly correct when first posted in 2020, the national living wage in March 2023 is £9.50, which equates to approximately £17,892 per year for someone working 36.4 hours a week. The national living wage is set to increase in April 2023.


claimant: Alan Johnson
claim_date: 2016-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/manufacturing-jobs-and-eu/
title: Manufacturing jobs and the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Two thirds of manufacturing jobs, and 50,000 manufacturing apprenticeships, are reliant on Britain’s membership of the EU.

textual_rating:
This is wrong. Roughly 15% of manufacturing jobs can be said to be directly linked to demand from other EU countries. That doesn’t mean these jobs are dependent on the UK being an EU member. Both claims are based on older inaccurate figures, and use flawed comparisons.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/amendments-pip-legislation/
title: Amendments to PIP legislation - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has “sneaked through” an amendment to legislation governing Personal Independence Payments.

textual_rating:
The government didn’t formally consult the Social Security Advisory Committee, which it’s normally supposed to refer to on changes to social security regulations. But the government can do this if it’s a matter of urgency, which it claims was the case here.


text: Pensioners have had free TV taken away.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/TV-licences-pensioners-prisoners/
title: Prisoners don’t have to pay the TV licence whereas most pensioners will soon have to - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is partially correct. Free TV licences for all over 75s were due to end from June 2020 and this will be replaced by a scheme where only those over 75 who receive Pension Credit (or whose partner lives with them and receives Pension Credit) will not have to pay. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the BBC has said this scheme will now begin from 1 August.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Daily-Mail-Front-Page/
title: The Daily Mail front page did not call Boris Johnson a traitor - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not a real front page.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Daily Mail front page on 11/11/2019 said “An official report finds that Boris Johnson’s Conservative party received donations from nine Russian donors with suspected links to the Kremlin. Does our Prime Minister choose to publsh [sic] it? No, Johnson PERSONALLY blocks publication of the report.”


text: Around a dozen other European countries have banned zero hours contracts.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/zero-hours-contracts-uk-europe/
title: Zero hours contracts: is the UK "the odd one out"? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not all have an explicit ban, but it’s correct that most EU countries outlaw these contracts, heavily restrict them, or don’t see them widely used. The UK is one of around half a dozen European countries where zero hours contracts are both legal and fairly common.


claimant: Larisa Brown and Ian Drury
claim_date: 2016-01-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/judge-truth-calais-benefits/
title: "The judge who dared to tell the truth"? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A senior judge has said that many of the people in the Calais "jungle" migrant camp aren't refugees, but want the UK's "economic benefits".

textual_rating:
One line in a recent judgment says "many are probably not refugees", but want to apply for asylum in the UK instead of France "due to perceived advantages". His judgment doesn't mention benefits.


text: Feeding bread to ducks is safe and doesn't make them sick.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/poster-claiming-bread-healthy-ducks-gets-its-facts-flap/
title: Poster claiming bread is healthy for ducks gets its facts in a flap - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Many wildlife charities say bread should only be fed to ducks in small amounts. It should form part of a much wider, nutrient-rich diet and is less important during spring and summer.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lib-dem-expenses/
title: How much do Lib Dem MPs claim in expenses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In 2017/18, thirteen current Lib Dem MPs claimed expenses worth between £103,709.34 and £210,245.50 each.

textual_rating:
The numbers are in the right ballpark, although some are out by a few thousand pounds. This includes MPs’ staffing costs. The average claim by Lib Dem MPs was roughly the same as the average claim for all MPs that year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/unofficial-harvester-post/
title: Facebook ‘free meal’ at Harvester offer is not official - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The post is not affiliated with Harvester.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The restaurant chain Harvester is offering anyone who shares and comments on a Facebook post a free meal for two.


text: John D. Rockefeller wrote a “secret covenant” detailing a plan to poison the population.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/john-d-rockefeller-secret-covenant/
title: No evidence John D. Rockefeller wrote ‘secret covenant’ about poisoning the public - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence the text, which first appeared online in 2002 after being submitted anonymously to a financial advice website, had anything to do with Mr Rockefeller.


text: There are 18 million GP appointments a year for self-treatable conditions.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-02-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/18-million-gp-appointments-pharmacists/
title: Could 18 million GP appointments be seen by pharmacists? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a very rough figure based on uncertain and out of date data. It uses self-reported data from about 60 GPs on 5,000 appointments in 2015, and applies this to the total number of GP appointments in 2008.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hancock-video-WHO/
title: WHO advice about asymptomatic transmission has changed since the start of the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows Matt Hancock saying the WHO told him there is no evidence for asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19.

textual_rating:
He did say this, when talking about how the advice over time changed. It is now known that asymptomatic transmission is a factor in the spread of Covid-19.


text: £1 billion has been taken out of youth services.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/spending-services-young-people-england-has-fallen-2010/
title: Spending on services for young people in England has fallen since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct in England. This is a 73% reduction in local authorities’ spending on youth services in England between 2010/11 and 2019/20. The wider budget for children and young people has fallen by about £1.4 billion or by 13%.


text: A medical alert says to stop the use of anti-inflammatories for pain or high temperatures.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/young-people-severe-coronavirus-cork/
review_date: 2020-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
That ‘medical alert’ about severe Covid-19 cases in Cork due to anti-inflammatories is fake - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This message is fake. Current advice from health authorities in the UK and Ireland say to continue taking previously prescribed medication, including anti-inflammatories unless told otherwise by a healthcare professional. The NHS says there is no strong evidence that taking ibuprofen can make Covid-19 worse, but advises people with symptoms to take paracetamol if they can.


text: The triple vaccinated are the most likely to die.
claimant: Dr Richard Urso
claim_date: 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chris-preddie-vaccines-strep-A/
title: Covid-19 vaccines are not being used to treat strep A or scarlet fever - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Covid-19 vaccines aren’t 100% effective, so some vaccinated people do still sadly die of the disease. But figures show that deaths involving Covid have been consistently lower for people who have received booster vaccines.


text: The main cause of breast cancer is the use of antiperspirant.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/antiperspirant-deodorant-cancer/
title: The role of antiperspirant in causing breast cancer is not proven - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Cancer Research UK says that at present there’s no convincing evidence that using deodorants or antiperspirants affects breast cancer risk.


claimant: Sam Gyimah
claim_date: 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/social-mobility-england-still-all-about-northsouth-divide/
title: Is social mobility in England still all about the North/South divide? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A report by the Social Mobility Commission says there isn’t a north/south divide on social mobility, it says the picture is more mixed than this.

textual_rating:
That’s correct. The report said the strongest divide was between London and the rest of the country.


text: Department for Education research shows missing school for even a day can impact pupil attainment.
claimant: Nick Gibb
claim_date: 2016-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/mixed-evidence-link-between-term-time-holidays-and-attainment/
title: Mixed evidence on the link between term time holidays and attainment - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This research finds as pupil absence rates increase, they do worse in tests at ages 10/11 and 15/16. Missing a single day doesn’t always show this for some pupils though, if the absence is an authorised holiday. Either way, the findings can’t prove that missing school is the cause of worse performance, or at least that if it is a cause, it's the main one. The evidence is more mixed looking specifically at holidays as a reason for absence.


text: A BMJ article is proof that the use of PCR tests are a massive part of the problem.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/PCR-context/
title: The BMJ didn’t say PCR tests are useless - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The BMJ article illustrates some of the concerns around potentially using PCR testing for asymptomatic mass testing. This is not how PCR tests are generally being used in the UK.


text: A man named John Ederson is looking for his birth parents in Warrington.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/warrington-facebook-appeal-john-ederson/
title: Appeal to find parents of man born in Warrington is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this appeal is genuine. The pictures appear to have been taken from elsewhere online, and do not match Mr Ederson’s alleged birth date.


claimant: Hugo Talks
claim_date: 2022-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/monkeypox-immune-system/
title: Monkeypox is not a cover-up for the effects of the Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Monkeypox is being used to cover up the effects of the jabs. The more jabs you have had, the more your immune system is weakened.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence that the monkeypox outbreak is caused by anything other than the monkeypox virus, and it is not true that the Covid-19 vaccine weakens the immune systems of its recipients.


text: The UK has taken in 41,000 unaccompanied children since 2010.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/40-thousand-unaccompanied-children/
review_date: 2020-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Since 2010, the UK has granted protection to around 41,000 asylum seekers and refugees under the age of 18 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Since 2010, the UK has granted protection to 41,396 asylum seekers and refugees under the age of 18. However, at least 40% of these young people were accompanied by parents or carers.


text: If you do challenge someone, you could be fined under the Equality Act 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/equality-act-face-mask-discrimination/
title: Challenging someone for not wearing a face mask isn’t against the Equality Act - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. Asking someone to wear a face covering is unlikely to be discrimination, as long as you follow government guidance.


text: A no deal Brexit means we would have free trade with the world.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK could import goods and services freely following a no-deal Brexit. But its exports would still be subject to other countries’ import regulations.


text: People required to self-isolate will receive a support payment of £500 per week.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-quarantine-500/
title: Boris Johnson makes an error about quarantine payments - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. People who are eligible for the payment will receive £500 in total, not for each week that they self-isolate.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-mask-fines-arrests/
title: Police do have legal powers to enforce face covering laws - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK’s police commissioner said that police have no power to enforce rules on people wearing masks in shops.

textual_rating:
There is no “UK police commissioner”. One police group has said the new rules will be difficult to enforce in practice, but not that they have no legal power to enforce them. Police do have these powers.


text: A 1989 medical textbook lists the common cold as a disease caused by coronaviruses.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-textbook-1989-common-cold/
title: Covid-19 is not the same as a common cold - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
True but coronaviruses are a family of viruses we’ve known that humans can get since the 1960s. Some cause the common cold. SARS-CoV-2 causes Covid-19.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/affordable-homes-labour-conservative/
title: Affordable homes: comparing Labour and Conservative records - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since the Conservatives came into government in 2010, they have delivered more affordable homes than Labour did in its last seven years in office.

textual_rating:
Correct. 346,000 more affordable homes were added in the seven years to 2016/17, compared to 333,000 in the seven years before that. Since 2011/12, the kinds of affordable homes being built have been typically more expensive “affordable rented” homes.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/february-2022-expose-vaccinated-covid/
title: Covid-19 vaccines don’t cause immunodeficiency syndrome - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People vaccinated against Covid-19 may be experiencing a form of vaccine-induced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

textual_rating:
False. This is based on incorrectly using Covid-19 case rates to claim being vaccinated increases a person’s risk of being infected with Covid-19.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-08-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/penalty-charge-notice/
title: This advice on how to fight a parking ticket is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Penalty charge notices are usually issued by the police or councils, while parking charge notices are invoices issued by private companies.


text: You can sign the Revoke Article 50 petition using any name you want.
claimant: Julia Hartley-Brewer
claim_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/possible-repeatedly-sign-parliamentary-petition/
review_date: 2019-03-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: It is possible to sign using a false name.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Is it possible to repeatedly sign a parliamentary petition using the same email address? - Full Fact


text: A million families are dependent on food banks.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/food-banks-zero-hours-contracts-and-falling-wages-are-we-worse/
title: Food banks, zero hours contracts and falling wages: are we worse off? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The most commonly used figures for food bank use come from the Trussell Trust. They show a million uses (not individual users) of food banks in 2013/14. The Trust isn't the only organisation running food banks, so we don't have a figure for the total number of people using food banks.


text: Vaccinated people are dying from Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/
title: Vaccines reduce the risk of death but don’t eliminate it altogether - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Covid-19 vaccines are very effective. But no vaccine is 100% effective and therefore there will be breakthrough cases.


text: Vaping destroys dopamine in the brain.
claimant: Lou Deanie
claim_date: 2022-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaping-harms/
title: Vaping harms overstated in viral video - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence vaping destroys dopamine, nor is there evidence nicotine use causes long term reductions of it.


text: You can also call unknown causes by another name - SADS.
claimant: JP Sears
claim_date: 2022-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/unknown-causes-not-linked-covid-vaccines/
review_date: 2022-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
No evidence rise in deaths due to unknown causes in Canada is linked to Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact

textual_rating:
SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) refers to deaths from cardiac arrest where the cause cannot be determined. While some SADS deaths may be recorded as due to unknown causes, the two classifications are not the same.


text: Borax can treat arthritis, balance hormones and is anti-inflammatory.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/borax-toxic-arthritis-inflammation-hormones/
title: Drinking borax carries risk of toxicity - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no good evidence for this claim. Research on the clinical effects of borax is minimal and inconclusive.


claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2022-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/parents-masks-school/
title: Parents mostly against face masks in classrooms - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A recent poll by parent voice charity Parentkind found that nearly two thirds of parents of secondary school children are not in favour of masks in the classroom.

textual_rating:
The survey was not necessarily representative of parents in general. However, other data supports the finding that most parents are opposed to face masks in classrooms.


text: Public opinion is swinging in favour of having a second referendum on Brexit.
claimant: Vince Cable
claim_date: 2018-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/has-public-opinion-swung-favour-second-eu-referendum/
title: Has public opinion swung in favour of a second EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is some polling evidence of a shift in public opinion towards another referendum, but different polls have given inconsistent results, and results can vary a lot depending on what question is asked.


text: There is no route at all for you to get rid of Ursula von der Leyen.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/president-european-commission-democratically-elected/
title: Was the new President of the European Commission democratically elected? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The President of the European Commission’s office ends after five years, when new EU elections take place. The President also has to be approved by elected MEPs, who can also vote them out of office with a censure motion.


text: Bill Gates is the largest owner of farmland in the US.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bill-gates-artifical-breast-milk-formula-shortage/
title: Bill Gates hasn’t launched artificial breast milk - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Prior to his divorce from Melinda Gates, the couple were reported to own around 242,000 acres, which accounts for around 0.03% of all farmland in the US.


claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2021-11-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-vaccines-condition-of-deployment/
review_date: 2021-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government's plan to make vaccines a requirement for employment within the NHS cannot be enforced unless it is already written into the contract that you must take part in medical trials and accept unlicensed drugs.

title:
Vaccine requirement law for NHS staff in England could be enforced regardless of contracts - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. If the new rule becomes law, employers would be required to enforce it, regardless of pre-existing contracts.


text: Iain Duncan Smith MP gets free mobile phone calls.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-expenses-claim-lunch-gym/
title: Not all of these claims about what MPs can claim in expenses are correct - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs can claim for expenses for the costs of running a constituency office, including telephone and mobile phone calls for parliamentary purposes.


text: 64 million people took advantage of the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/deaths-eat-out-to-help-out/
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
There’s no evidence for how many people took part in ‘Eat Out To Help Out’ or later died from Covid-19 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The Treasury said more than 100 million meals were served as part of the scheme. It’s likely many people took part more than once, meaning we can’t know the exact number of participants.


text: Boots has been given lateral flow tests the taxpayer has already paid for to sell back to us again.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boots-lateral-flow-tests/
title: Boots isn’t selling lateral flow tests ‘the taxpayer has already paid for’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. Unused tests procured by NHS Test and Trace are not given to private providers, and the tests for sale in Boots are not the same as the ones used by Test and Trace.


text: A photo shows chemtrails in the sky from planes.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-instagram-cloudy/
title: No evidence ‘trails’ are deliberately put into the sky by planes - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The post appears to show contrails, formed when water vapour from aircraft engines freezes at high altitudes. Depending on humidity, these can last for many hours and eventually mix with cirrus clouds.


text: Statistics show that Serco is much worse at contact tracing than local councils.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2020-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-serco-tweet/
title: Labour’s tweet about Serco is missing some important context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comparison needs context. Public and private contact tracers do different jobs, and there’s reason to believe it may be easier for local teams to reach a higher proportion of their contacts.


text: According to the Lisbon Treaty, in 2022 we become an EU state.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Lisbon-treaty-short-list/
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The treaty came into force in 2009, nothing is due to change in 2022. There are no developed plans for the creation of a single EU state.


text: The CEO of Pfizer said he doesn’t need to get vaccinated for Covid-19 because he’s healthy.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-21T00:00:00Z
title: Pfizer CEO didn’t say he doesn’t need to be vaccinated because he’s healthy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/pfizer-ceo-didnt-say-he-doesnt-need-to-be-vaccinated-because-hes-healthy/

textual_rating:
False. This is a misquote from an interview in December where the head of Pfizer said he didn’t want to get the vaccine ahead of more vulnerable recipients. At the time, rollout had just begun. He has since had both doses of the vaccine.


text: Children aren’t affected by Covid-19 and don’t transmit the virus.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-influencer-video-full-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Viral influencer video full of false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Children are less affected but some can still become seriously ill or die. They do transmit the virus.


text: Illegal immigrants or refugees living in Britain get a total yearly benefit of £29,900.
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/pensioners-or-refugees/
title: Who gets more, pensioners or refugees? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Illegal immigrants cannot collect benefits, and refugees can on the same basis as UK nationals once their request for asylum is granted—but this figure is unusually high.


claimant: Liberal Democrats
claim_date: 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/yougov-did-not-predict-jeremy-corbyn-will-lose-his-seat-lib-dems/
title: YouGov did not predict that Jeremy Corbyn will lose his seat to the Lib Dems - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A YouGov poll predicts the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will lose his seat to the Liberal Democrats in the next election.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. YouGov’s poll was a national survey based on a hypothetical scenario, not a conventional survey of voting intention. The results should not be used as a ‘forecast’, nor can they be reliably applied to any individual constituency.


text: The head of pharma at Bayer admitted MRNA vaccines are gene therapy.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bayer-covid-vaccine-gene-therapy/
title: Bayer executive wrongly said mRNA vaccines are gene therapy - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A Bayer spokesperson has since said this comment was an “obvious slip of the tongue”. mRNA vaccines are not gene therapy.


text: GPs will be given £12.58 per Covid vaccine dose.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-fee/
review_date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The figure for a dose of a potential Covid-19 vaccine covers the cost of delivering the treatment - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is correct. This is an “item of service fee”, that covers the cost of providing this treatment.


text: Britain has suspended aid to Ukraine due to the “severe economic crisis”.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sunak-ukraine-financial-support/
title: The UK has not suspended aid to Ukraine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently pledged to continue to support Ukraine and the government has announced new aid packages.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/iodine-oil-body-hair/
title: Mixing baby oil and iodine won’t remove body hair - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This won’t remove body hair.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You can make a substance that removes body hair by mixing one tablespoon of 2% iodine and one cup of baby oil.


text: Over 200,000 nurses have resigned since 2010.
claimant: David Lammy
claim_date: 2019-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/adult-social-care-nurse-numbers/
title: Claim about social care spending and nurse numbers needs more context - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This figure covers all nurses and health visitors who have left the NHS in England from 2010 to 2018, including those with an unknown reason for leaving as well as those who have retired or died in service. Overall the number of nurses working in the NHS is higher than in 2010.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nadine-dorries-nurse-pay-womans-hour/
title: Here’s exactly what Nadine Dorries said on Woman’s Hour about nurses’ salaries - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Health minister Nadine Dorries said nurses would understand and accept a 1% pay rise because they have husbands and partners bringing in salaries.

textual_rating:
This is not exactly what she said, although she did refer to the husbands and partners of nurses in a discussion about the pay rise.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Russia-unleashed-500-lions/
title: Russia has not unleashed 500 lions to stop people going outdoors - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
About 500 lions have been released on the streets of Russia to stop people going out during the coronavirus pandemic.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The Russian government has yet to announce a widespread lockdown of any kind in Russia. The image of the lion is from South Africa in 2016.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/welfare-sanctions-and-homelessness/
title: Welfare sanctions and homelessness - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One in five claimants that have been sanctioned became homeless as a result of it, according to one study.

textual_rating:
This is missing an important caveat. Researchers found that one fifth of people surveyed who had used homelessness services had lost their home because of sanctions. The proportion of all people who are sanctioned who become homeless is probably smaller.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Boris-Johnson-working-men/
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. He specifically said “blue collar” men.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson wrote that working class men are “likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless” in The Spectator in 1995.

title:
Boris Johnson did write that “blue collar” men are likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless - Full Fact


text: PHE released a report revealing 62% of Covid-19 deaths are people who have been vaccinated.
claimant: Daily Expose
claim_date: 2021-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/
title: Vaccinated people sometimes die of Covid-19—but very rarely - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
PHE’s report suggests 61% of Covid-19 deaths with the Delta variant are in people who have received at least one vaccine dose. But this is not unexpected when no vaccine is 100% effective and so many vulnerable people have been vaccinated.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-eu-law/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on EU law - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The EU will continue to control migration, trade, VAT, and vital security policies such as counter-terrorism. EU law will carry on having ultimate authority over British law

textual_rating:
EU law does override UK law, and has mostly taken over control of trade, immigration from other EU countries, and VAT. The EU doesn’t control counter-terrorism or the intelligence services.


text: A Facebook user is looking for their son, Tyler, who went missing after going to school.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-child-tyler/
title: Near-identical posts about a missing child called Tyler are fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These posts are almost identical to others we’ve written about before. One of them uses an image of a 14-year-old Australian girl, while the other uses an image of a boy who was found safe and well in Wales earlier this year.


text: 54% of UK-based pharmacists said medicines shortages have put patients at risk.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2022-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pharmacist-patients-survey/
title: Pharmacists survey didn't find patients’ ‘lives’ were being put at risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is from a self-selected survey, and therefore may not be representative of all UK-based pharmacists.


claimant: Maajid Nawaz
claim_date: 2022-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maajid-nawaz-joe-rogan-covid/
title: Maajid Nawaz got Covid-19 facts wrong on the Joe Rogan podcast - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 vaccines do not protect 5-year-olds or 12-year-olds against serious illness or death with the disease.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Covid-19 vaccines do substantially protect against the small risk of serious illness and death in children.


text: This Conservative government introduced parity of esteem for mental health services in the NHS.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/what-parity-esteem/
title: What is parity of esteem? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government wants to achieve equality between the physical and mental health services provided to people, but it’s not there yet. The Coalition and Conservative government both introduced commitments to parity of esteem in legislation and official documents. The idea has been talked about for decades.


claimant: kkrant.nl
claim_date: 2021-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/astrazeneca-vaccine-sids/
title: Covid-19 child vaccine trial paused over clot concerns, not cot death - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Research in England involving giving children the Covid-19 vaccine has been stopped due to cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in those children.

textual_rating:
A trial in children aged 6-17 has paused new vaccinations as a precaution, but no child involved died. It’s been paused subject to discussions between researchers at MHRA about the possible link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and very rare blood clots in adults.


text: The government have announced the end of hospital parking charges for patients.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/
title: Boris Johnson’s first interview of 2020: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In December it was announced that hospitals in England will have to provide free car parking to frequent hospital visitors, blue badge holders and at certain times to staff and parents of child patients.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-gp-appointments-denied/
title: Labour’s analysis on five million ‘denied’ GP appointments fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Five million patients in England were denied a GP appointment when they tried to make one in October.

textual_rating:
This figure is an estimate which is not reliable. It’s based on survey data from earlier this year, includes some patients who were offered an appointment they did not take and assumes every appointment request came from a different patient. We’ve not seen a way to reliably estimate this figure with recent available data.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-stronger-eu-collaboration/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Stronger In on EU collaboration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tackling global threats like terrorism and climate change — with global threats that don't stop at borders, strength in numbers through the EU keeps UK families safer and protects our future

textual_rating:
The EU has worked on these issues. Whether working as a group rather than individually keeps the UK safer is a matter of judgement.


text: A video shows that Boston Dynamics is teaching its robots how to fight.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boston-dynamics-robot-fighting/
title: No evidence video shows a real ‘fighting robot’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The footage appears to be computer-generated and there is no evidence it’s associated with Boston Dynamics.


text: Covid-19 is not classed as a ‘high consequence infectious disease’.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-vaccines/
title: Results of Covid-19 vaccine trials have been published and peer-reviewed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true, because it no longer meets the criteria for an HCID. This doesn’t mean that it is no longer considered dangerous or significant.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/illegal-immigrants-boat-australia/
review_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
This image of two boats surrounding a third shows Australian warships turning away a ship of people trying to enter the country illegally.

title:
A post incorrectly claims to show Australian warships turning away people trying to enter the country illegally - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The image is from a territorial row between China and Japan in 2012. However, Australia does have a policy of turning back boats.


text: Labour’s unfunded spending commitments would leave a £90 billion “black hole” in public finances.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-90-billion-black-hole/
review_date: 2023-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Conservatives’ estimate that Labour plans would create a ‘£90 billion black hole’ is unreliable - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is the Conservatives’ calculation of the total net cost of 21 policies announced by Labour since 2021. But it’s not a reliable estimate of what a Labour government would actually mean for public finances—the calculation uses a mix of annual and one-off costings, it’s unclear if Labour still plans to implement all the policies, and some costings appear to be out of date.


claimant: Andrea Albutt
claim_date: 2017-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/prison-officer-numbers-have-fallen/
title: Fewer prison officers in England and Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
7,000 prison officers have been lost from the prison service in recent years due to austerity measures.

textual_rating:
There are 7,000 fewer prison officers now than there were in 2010 on one definition. This fall followed on from the 2010 spending review which reduced funding for the Ministry of Justice.


text: National Insurance Contributions are being used to reduce the national debt.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/money-national-insurance-contributions/
title: What happens to the money from National Insurance Contributions? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some are. This doesn’t mean anyone isn’t getting paid what they’re currently due in pensions or benefits—the UK government invests the NICs that don’t go towards paying pensions and benefits on reducing the national debt.


text: Prisoners becoming eligible for early release halfway through their sentences was a Labour policy.
claimant: The Sunday Telegraph
claim_date: 2019-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-long-do-child-killers-serve-prison/
title: How long do child killers serve in prison? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It actually first became law in 1991, under a Conservative government. Labour continued it in a major revamp of the law in 2003.


text: Over 80% of vaccinated pregnant women in a US study experienced miscarriage.
claimant: Science Public Health Policy and the Law
claim_date: 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-miscarriage-nejm/
title: Research does not show 80% of vaccinated pregnant women experienced miscarriage - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This figure was made in error and is being corrected. The true miscarriage rate in this study was around 13%, which is similar to the normal rate.


text: Covid-19 barely mutated before vaccines were rolled out.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-mutations/
title: Covid-19 mutated long before mass vaccine roll-outs - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is untrue. All four variants of concern, designated as such by the World Health Organisation, were identified before mass public vaccination programmes began.


text: The last labour government took 800,000 children out of poverty.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/poverty-or-down/
title: Poverty: up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, if you look at the number of children living in relative poverty and don’t include housing costs. There’s more than one measure of poverty.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-watch/
title: The time on Boris Johnson’s watch does not prove his televised address wasn’t live - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: His watch showed it was 8pm and the address was live.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson’s address on 4 January was filmed before 8pm and not live as claimed, and you can tell from the time on his watch.


text: Covid-19 trial participants who received the placebo will be considered as vaccinated.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-07-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-trial-participants-certificates-status-novavax/
title: Placebo recipients are treated as vaccinated for 16 weeks once trials end - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true, as the government has said it wants to ensure people who take part in the trials are not disadvantaged. In many cases, including the Novavax trial, participants who initially received the placebo will later be offered a vaccine. After the trial, participants have 16 weeks to get an NHS standard vaccine if they have not already received an appropriate one in their trial.


text: Tesco wasted 119 million meals last year.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2016-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/tesco-food-waste-119-million-meals/
title: Did Tesco waste 119 million meals last year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true, if you define a meal as 0.5kg of food. It’s likely to equal a very small proportion of the food wasted by Tesco’s customers or across its supply chain.


text: New Covid-19 vaccines contain levels of mercury that cause brain damage.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-vaccine-mercury-brain-damage/
title: There’s no evidence that mercury-based chemicals in a Covid-19 vaccine would cause harm - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Most commonly given vaccines in the UK do not contain the mercury-based chemical thiomersal. We don’t know if future Covid-19 vaccines will contain it, but even if they do, there is no evidence that it causes harm in the amount contained in vaccines.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/albert-einstein-quote-technology-idiots/
title: Einstein didn’t say technology would create 'generation of idiots' - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Albert Einstein said technology would one day “surpass our human interaction” and create “a generation of idiots”.

textual_rating:
There’s no record of him ever saying this. The first iterations of this quote appear to have been posted online in 2012.


claimant: Chuka Umunna
claim_date: 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/one-in-five-poverty/
review_date: 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One in five people lives in absolute poverty. Over 14 million people are living in absolute poverty.

title:
About one in five people live in absolute or relative poverty if their housing costs are included - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Around 13 million people are living in absolute poverty in the UK, after housing costs are taken into account—that’s one in five. 14 million people are living in relative poverty, after housing costs.


claimant: Facebook/Public
claim_date: 2021-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-animal-testing/
title: Covid-19 vaccine did not kill every animal it was tested on - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
All animals used in Covid-19 vaccine trials died months later from immune disorders, sepsis and/or cardiac failure.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this.. The claim is based on a 2012 study looking at different vaccines. The animals, in this case mice, were euthanized as is standard procedure in this sort of trial. They did not die “months later” as claimed.


text: Many migrants contribute to society.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-immigration/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on immigration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Studies suggest recently-arrived EU immigrants contribute more to the public finances than they receive, although the effect is small.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/suella-braverman-model-concentration-camp-auschwitz/
title: Photo of Suella Braverman looking at model Auschwitz is digitally altered - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This picture has been digitally manipulated, bringing together two separate photos.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows home secretary Suella Braverman overlooking a model replica of a Nazi concentration camp, on which the UK’s new facilities for asylum seekers in Rwanda is being modelled.


text: The number of people unnecessarily in hospitals is reducing, easing the burden on A&E.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-hospital-discharge-numbers/
title: Do Rishi Sunak’s claims about hospital discharge funding stack up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Number 10 hasn’t said what figures this claim was based on. Data published at the time Mr Sunak spoke showed the number of patients in hospitals in England no longer meeting the criteria to be there had fallen slightly from a peak in early January but was still above the average for the whole winter period.


text: Wales has 11% of the UK railway track and gets 1% of investment.
claimant: Adam Price
claim_date: 2019-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/wales-railway-investment/
title: How much rail investment goes to Wales? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Wales has about 11% of the rail network in England and Wales. Research suggests it gets 1% of only a subset of investment spending. When you consider other investment spending, Wales gets a higher share.


text: Last year, 91% of school places created were in good or outstanding schools.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/ofsted-hasnt-inspected-300-schools-decade-or-more/
title: Ofsted hasn’t inspected 300 schools for a decade or more - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Between 2015/16 and 2016/17, 91% of new primary and secondary school places were created in schools that were last rated good or outstanding.


text: South Africa has not vaccinated its elderly due to a lack of data.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/letter-mhra-filled-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Letter to MHRA is filled with false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to suggest this is the case, at least with regard to data about the vaccines. South Africa is due to start vaccinating the elderly this month.


text: Taxpayers will pick up a £2 million security bill for Eugenie’s wedding.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2018-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/princess-and-pcs-what-will-policing-princess-eugenies-wedding-cost/
title: The Princess and the PCs: What will policing Princess Eugenie’s wedding cost? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This hasn’t been confirmed, but seems in the right ballpark based on reported costs for previous weddings.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/145-country-study/
title: Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused an increase in cases and deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Data from 145 countries shows that deployment of Covid-19 vaccines causes an increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths.

textual_rating:
Medical statisticians have explained that the analysis, which is not peer reviewed or published in an academic journal, is deeply flawed. 

Lots of data is available that shows the contrary.


text: Germany spent less than £1 billion on their track and trace system.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/germany-test-trace-cost/
title: Claims about German Test and Trace costs completely wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. We don’t know how much Germany spent in total, but the federal government’s cost of rapid tests alone far exceeds £1 billion.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/government-recouped-tax-evasion-avoidance/
title: How much has the government recouped from tax evasion and avoidance? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has secured almost £160 billion extra since 2010 as a result of tax compliance activities.

textual_rating:
Correct according to HMRC estimates, but a large part of this figure covers money the government thinks it will get in future as a result of actions already taken, rather than money actually saved so far.


text: A new, potentially harmful, chemical found in the atmosphere is linked to ‘chemtrails’.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-earth-atmosphere/
title: No evidence ‘chemtrails’ are responsible for new chemical found in atmosphere - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that the chemicals called hydrotrioxides found in the atmosphere have anything to do with the chemtrails conspiracy theory.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2020-09-27T00:00:00Z
title: It’s wrong to say that only 3% of Covid-19 cases are caused by restaurants and pubs - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pubs and restaurants caused less than three per cent of coronavirus infections in the week before the 10pm curfew, official data shows.

url:
https://fullfact.org/health/its-wrong-to-say-that-only-3-of-covid-19-cases-are-caused-by-restaurants-and-pubs/

textual_rating:
This is a misreading of data which only covers outbreaks and clusters where more than one person has or is suspected to have a respiratory infection. 

This data does not necessarily confirm where a new case was picked up.


text: The UK's deficit is one of the highest in the developed world.
claimant: George Osborne
claim_date: 2015-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uks-deficit-one-highest-developed-world/
title: Is the UK's deficit one of the highest in the developed world? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK's deficit is one of the highest among developed countries in the OECD, although it's difficult to get comparable figures that are all up-to-date for different countries.


text: There was no “pandemic death rate” in 2020.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/funeral-director-interview/
title: False claims from funeral director about facemasks, vaccines and the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
73,766 deaths were registered as being due to Covid-19 from March to December 2020 in England and Wales.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2017-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/eu-prisoners/
title: 4,000 EU prisoners in England and Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There were more than 4,000 foreign criminals from other EU countries locked up in British jails last year.

textual_rating:
This is how many prisoners in England and Wales at the end of 2017 were citizens of other EU countries.


text: The cost of the German Test and Trace system has been £48 million.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/germany-has-spent-far-more-than-48m-on-test-and-trace/
title: Germany has spent far more than £48m on test and trace - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Funding for the German system is complicated, but available figures suggest that far more than the £48 million has been spent.


text: Driving in flip flops could land you a £5,000 fine, 9 points and a driving ban.
claimant: Families Online
claim_date: 2019-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/flip-flop-driving-penalty/
title: Driving in flip flops isn’t an offence, but driving carelessly is - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Driving in flip flops doesn’t carry any penalties by itself, but if it led to careless driving or endangered other road users then these penalties could apply.


text: ‘How to hit a woman so no one knows’ was Googled 163 million times during 2020.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/google-domestic-abuse/
title: Claims 163 million people searched ‘how to hit a woman so no one knows’ are untrue - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. This is the number of search results, rather than the number of times that the term was searched for—a methodological error acknowledged by the researcher behind the claim.


text: Glyphosate is in vaccines.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-vaccines/
title: Most of these claims about glyphosate, vaccines and cancer are misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Tests by a campaign group and a research scientist/consultant claimed to have detected glyphosate in some vaccines in the US, but the reliability of these tests have been called into question.


text: 53 million tests means that they have 53 millions people’s DNA on file.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-influencer-video-full-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Viral influencer video full of false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. No record of the patient’s DNA is taken in the testing process and the majority of test samples are destroyed.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-boris-johnsons-brexit-deal/
title: We fact checked this viral image on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the new withdrawal agreement, there is a transition period until 2021, extendable for years longer.

textual_rating:
Under the current terms of the agreement, the transition period would end just before 2021 began. It could theoretically be extended by up to two years, provided that’s been settled by half way through 2020.


text: Fluoride is now being used against you in the water supply, toothpaste and medications.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-evidence-for-fluoride-claims/
title: No evidence to back up these claims about fluoride - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Fluoride is added to the UK water supply and some toothpastes, and can be prescribed as a medication, to prevent tooth decay. The only potential negative effect of fluoride at levels recommended in the UK is discolouration of the enamel of teeth.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cameron-highlanders-photo/
title: 'Fake' WW1 photo contains kernel of truth - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows a battalion of the Cameron Highlanders in 1914, prior to being despatched to the front line, the next image is the same battalion upon their return in 1918 after the armistice.

textual_rating:
The 1914 image is real, but the 1918 image appears to have been constructed to reflect the casualties suffered by the battalion in the first months of the war.


text: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said he doesn’t need the vaccine because he’s healthy.
claimant: Chris Preddie
claim_date: 2021-08-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Chris-Preddie-Pfizer-CEO-Covid-vaccine/
title: Chris Preddie wrong about Pfizer CEO not taking Covid vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a misquote from an interview from December. Albert Bourla said he didn’t want to take the vaccine ahead of more vulnerable recipients. He has since been double vaccinated.


text: The UK and US have exported no vaccines.
claimant: Alex Taylor
claim_date: 2021-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-export-eu/
title: Covid-19 vaccine exports and the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seemed to be the case when the claim was made, though it has since been reported that the UK sent over 700,000 doses to Australia in February/March though this has not been confirmed. The US also sent 2.7 million doses to Mexico in late March.


text: Wages are rising in real terms.
claimant: Mel Stride
claim_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wage-growth-inflation/
title: What do the latest wage growth figures actually show? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
When looking at pay adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs, regular pay and total pay growth increased by 0.1% and 0.5% respectively.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2023-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/hotel-accommodation-asylum-seeker-cost/
title: £7 million daily cost of hotel accommodation includes cost of housing Afghan refugees - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The taxpayer is spending £7 million a day on hotel accommodation for people who cross the channel illegally.

textual_rating:
False. Approximately £5.6 million a day is currently spent on providing hotel accommodation for asylum seekers. A further £1.2 million a day is spent on providing bridging accommodation for Afghan refugees.


text: We put up nurse pay last month.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nurse-pay-may-2020/
title: Nurse pay up over the past few years but down on 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. In 2018 the government and the NHS staff council agreed a three year pay deal which saw pay for nurses increase annually in April between 2018/19 and 2020/21.


claimant: Layla Moran
claim_date: 2020-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/layla-moran-child-malnutrition/
title: Layla Moran’s child malnutrition figures are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is based on data that is not reliable. We cannot say this with any confidence.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Twice as many children were admitted to English hospitals with malnutrition in the first six months of 2020, compared to the same period the year before.


text: There are around 9,000 people living in the Calais migrant camp. In June there were around 4,480.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2016-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/counting-number-migrants-calais-jungle/
title: Counting the number of migrants in the Calais ‘jungle’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The official estimate is that there are around 6,900 people in the camp, though local charities have counted around 9,100. Charities have suggested that different counting methods and migrants’ reluctance to speak to authorities may be behind the difference.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/electric-vehicles-from-failed-business/
title: These cars were not abandoned because their batteries failed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Photographs show many electric cars that were scrapped because their batteries were too expensive to replace.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. These cars were scrapped because they were part of the fleet of a French business that stopped trading.


text: You can get a £3,000 fine for not wearing a face covering and a £10,000 fine for a group gathering.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mask-fines-vs-indecent-images/
review_date: 2020-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Punishments for not wearing face coverings, not social distancing and for possessing indecent images of children vary depending on the exact offence - Full Fact

textual_rating:
In England, you can get fined up to £6,400 for repeatedly not wearing a mask without a valid exemption. People organising large gatherings can be fined up to £10,000.


text: Asylum seekers are often here illegally.
claimant: Katie Hopkins
claim_date: 2019-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/we-factchecked-viral-video-asylum-seekers/
title: We factchecked a viral video on asylum seekers - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is legal to apply for asylum in the UK. You can’t be penalised if applying for asylum if you entered or are in the country illegally.


text: A photograph shows a hearse being impounded during a funeral.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-02-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hearse-impounded-filming-missing-context/
title: Hearse being impounded during funeral is actually scene from TV comedy - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo shows a scene staged for an episode of the comedy TV show Rev, rather than a genuine funeral.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/unskilled-workers-salary-cap/
title: Most of these NHS jobs are classed as “skilled” under new immigration rules - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Newly qualified NHS nurses, paramedics, midwives, radiographers, care assistants, physiotherapists and occupational therapists are considered unskilled workers under a new set of immigration rules.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. All of the listed jobs apart from care assistants meet the skills threshold under new immigration rules.


text: Young people are in record levels of debt.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/young-people-record-levels-debt/
title: Young people in record levels of debt? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t have enough information to say if debt levels of all young people—including those who don’t go to university—are at record levels. The average debt of university graduates is the highest it has been.


claimant: Andrew Pierce
claim_date: 2017-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/EU-staff-pensions-criticism/
title: EU staff don’t lose their pensions for criticising the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: All three are ex-EU commissioners. None would lose their pension for criticising the EU.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If Lord Kinnock, Lord Mandelson, or Lord Patten began to publicly criticise the EU, their pensions would be withdrawn.


text: The SNP was wrong to say that Scotland currently has a lower prevalence of Covid than England.
claimant: Guido Fawkes
claim_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/guido-snp-covid-prevalence/
title: A Guido Fawkes ‘fact check’ incorrectly claims the SNP is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The SNP was correct about this, citing reliable recent data from the ONS. Data from the Coronavirus dashboard shows a different picture, but is less reliable for this purpose.


text: A newborn baby was just found in Essex by police.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/found-baby/
title: Facebook post’s claim about a newborn baby being found by police in Essex is false - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The baby pictured in the Facebook post claiming this was actually found in Arizona, and  Essex Police say they’re not aware of any such incident.


claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/violence-and-drugs-prison/
title: Violence and drugs in prison - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, including tests for psychoactive substances like spice.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The amount of times drugs were found in prisons across England and Wales rose by 23% in one year. 20.4% of drug tests came back as positive.


text: The main shareholders in these companies are American Vanguard, BlackRock and Blackstone.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/ukraine-land-sales-zelenskyy/
title: President Zelenskyy did not sell 17 million hectares of land to American conglomerates - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Vanguard Group and BlackRock have major stakes in DuPont on behalf of their clients. Cargill is a private family-owned company, and Monsanto no longer exists as an independent company.


text: 98% of NHS trusts are in deficit.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2016-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-nhs-trusts-are-deficit/
title: How many NHS trusts are in deficit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was roughly correct for acute trusts in the third quarter of 2015/16. But by the end of 2015/16 it was 65% of all NHS trusts, of which 75% were acute trusts (hospitals).


text: Introducing a Land Value Tax would force homeowners with gardens to sell them.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2017-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labours-land-value-tax-will-you-have-sell-your-garden/
title: Labour’s Land Value Tax: will you have to sell your garden? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It would depend on how the policy was actually designed. Labour has only committed to considering the idea, as have the Green and Liberal Democrat parties.


text: The working week in France is 35 hours.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-germany-working-week/
title: UK taxpayers aren’t subsidising France’s 35-hour working week - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. A full working week in France is officially set at 35 hours. Many employees agree to work more than 35 hours per week—but they will be compensated for this, for example through additional holiday.


text: 81,000 people are being tested in the UK every day.
claimant: Fiona Bruce
claim_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/question-time-testing-figures/
title: Lots of people are getting confused over testing figures - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is too low, although we don’t know by how much. It refers to people “newly” tested in England only. People who have been tested before may not appear in this figure.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/funeral-director-interview/
title: False claims from funeral director about facemasks, vaccines and the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is reason to suspect that people who died in care homes were probably euthanized using midazolam.

textual_rating:
People have died in care homes during the Covid-19 pandemic. While midazolam is often used in end of life care, there is no evidence to suggest that this has been used with the intention of killing people, or as part of a euthanasia policy. Euthansia remains illegal in the UK.


text: The estimated cost of a no deal Brexit is £5.81 per person per day.
claimant: Best for Britain
claim_date: 2019-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-brexit-costs-post-wrong/
title: This viral post about the costs of Brexit gets a lot of things wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems to be based on an estimate of how much lower UK GDP could be in 2030 if we leave with no deal, compared to if we remained in the EU. This is a hypothetical model for comparing possible paths: it cannot be used to accurately predict the size of the economy in 2030, or to translate the “cost” of Brexit into a definitive cash sum.


text: The EU says chlorine-washed chicken is safe.
claimant: Liam Fox
claim_date: 2017-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/does-eu-say-its-safe-eat-chicken-rinsed-chlorine/
title: Does the EU say it's safe to eat chicken rinsed in chlorine? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The European Food Safety Authority has said that there are “no safety concerns” with the chlorination of chicken, but it has also said this practice might not be sufficient for maintaining good hygiene standards throughout the slaughter process.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2022-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/january-2022-express-trade-deals/
title: Express overstates Brexit trade deal value, again - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has the potential to boost GDP by up to £20 billion a year.

textual_rating:
This is based on government modelling which assumes the US also joins the bloc, which it has indicated it will not do, at least at the moment.


text: Funding for rail companies today is four times what British Rail got in the 1970s and 80s.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/government-funding-rail-industry-bbcqt/
title: Government funding for the rail industry - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Government support to the rail industry is roughly three times what it was at the end of the 1980s, varying year to year. We haven’t seen earlier figures.


text: The Conservatives broke a manifesto promise by raising national insurance rates in the 2017 budget.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-conservatives-break-manifesto-promise-national-insurance/
title: Did the Conservatives break a manifesto promise on national insurance? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The 2015 Conservative election manifesto promised not to raise national insurance rates this parliament. The government has now announced plans to raise national insurance rates for some self-employed people.


text: Masks do nothing.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/face-masks-children-oxygen-bacteria/
title: No evidence masks limit oxygen for children - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Studies have shown that mask wearing can reduce the viral dose of Covid-19 someone might receive and can protect others if worn by someone with the virus.


text: No country currently has a functioning track and trace app.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/
title: Does any country have 'a functioning track and trace app'? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Multiple countries have launched apps, including Germany, France, Australia, Singapore and Latvia. However uptake has been fairly low, and it’s too early to say whether they will be effective in helping combat Covid-19.


text: Theresa May claimed expenses for her full gas bill and full cell phone bills.
url: https://fullfact.org/news/parliamentary-expenses-meme-theresa-may-correct/
title: Parliamentary expenses: is this meme about Theresa May correct? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Between 2005 and 2008 Mrs May made a number of office expense claims for sim-card hire and the purchase of a mobile phone. She also made claims for utilities bills on her second home.


claimant: Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice
claim_date: 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-travel-quarantine-confusion/
title: Government issues contradictory advice on travel quarantine - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You no longer have to quarantine if you have returned to England from an exempt country before July 10.

textual_rating:
This has been claimed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as well as a government minister. However, advice from the Department for Transport on the government’s official website says you must follow the rules that were in place when you arrived in England.


text: Reported victims of needle spiking have tested positive for HIV.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/HIV-needle-spiking/
title: Spiking: Very rare to contract HIV through used needle - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is extremely rare for HIV to be contracted via an unsterilised needle. In the UK it is recommended that people wait six weeks after possible exposure to test for HIV. A test a few days after exposure  would not accurately determine whether someone has been infected and would need to be repeated several weeks later. For many of the recent reports, this time span has not elapsed.


text: Judges are going to decide on whether the UK will leave the EU.
claimant: Bonnie Greer
claim_date: 2016-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/are-judges-deciding-whether-uk-will-leave-eu/
title: Are judges deciding whether the UK will leave the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The courts will decide whether Parliament has to have a say or not, rather than the government going ahead with Brexit by itself. It’s not directly a question about whether the vote should be upheld, which isn’t a legal matter.


text: You can’t be a member of the European single market without being a member of the EU.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/can-you-be-single-market-without-being-eu-member/
title: Can you be in the single market without being an EU member? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s technically possible for a non-EU member to be in the single market but it requires accepting a lot of rules set by the EU.


text: Tap water can return a positive lateral flow test result for Covid-19.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-12-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tap-water-covid-lateral-flow-test/
title: Tap water can’t test positive for Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Putting tap water on a lateral flow test will break it. Claims that water has tested positive have no basis in fact, because the test is used incorrectly.


claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-surcharge-tax-contributions/
review_date: 2019-11-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: It’s unclear how the Conservatives have calculated this figure. We’ve asked for more information.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Increasing the international health surcharge to £625 and extending it to all foreign workers, including EU migrants after Brexit, will raise over £500 million a year.

title:
Claim that immigrants “only” pay £400 surcharge to use the NHS ignores their tax contributions - Full Fact


text: Over the past two years, employment is up.
claimant: Thérèse Coffey
claim_date: 2022-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/therese-coffey-employment-down-april-2022/
title: Thérèse Coffey wrong to claim employment is up over the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The number of people in employment fell by 580,000 and the employment rate (the proportion of people aged 16 to 64 who are in work) fell by 1 percentage point between the three months to February 2020 and the three months to January 2022.


text: A video shows a plane emitting a thick “chemtrail” cloud.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/contrails-chemtrails-787-clouds/
title: Video does not show an aircraft spraying ‘massive’ chemtrails behind it - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The video shows a condensation trail formed from water vapour and enhanced by light levels and other atmospheric conditions


text: Rough sleeping has increased by 1200%.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/list-2010-claims/
title: Post comparing the UK today to 2010 has a number of errors - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Figures show a 74% increase in rough sleeping since 2010. These figures are estimates based on a snapshot taken on a single night in autumn.


text: Tesco is giving away free TVs to people who share a Facebook post, or visit a link.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tesco-tv-scam/
title: A post offering free TVs from Tesco is a scam - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The post does not come from Tesco’s Facebook account. Tesco has told us that it does not offer rewards for liking, sharing or commenting on posts.


text: There is a 0.42% chance of an asteroid hitting Earth on 2 November.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-asteroid/
title: The asteroid which might enter Earth’s atmosphere on 2 November will not “hit” Earth - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
NASA says there is a 0.41% chance of an asteroid entering Earth’s atmosphere but, if so, it is so small it would burn up in the atmosphere before “hitting Earth.”


text: Hand sanitiser is effective against Covid-19.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-hand-sanitiser/
title: Experts say soap and water is preferable, but high alcohol sanitiser does work - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Hand sanitisers with 60% alcohol content and above are effective against viruses, such as the new coronavirus, but soap and water is the best option.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wolf-retreating-not-protecting-partner-neck/
title: Image shows a retreating wolf, not a protector - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Female wolf is acting as part of a ‘fighting unit’ and showing trickery and loyalty by protecting her partner’s neck in a fight.

textual_rating:
This is wrong. None of the wolves in the image are female, and the wolf which appears to be ‘protecting’ a partner's neck was likely just to be turning away.


text: Suicides have virtually doubled since lockdown.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/suicide-rates-lockdown/
title: Sun wrong to claim lockdown doubled suicide rates - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is very little evidence for this. What evidence we have shows no increase in suicides after the first lockdown.


text: French workers retire six years earlier.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensions-energy-bills-France-UK/
title: Energy bills, retirement age and pensions in the UK compared to France - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The legal minimum retirement age at which someone can claim their pension in France is currently 62, while in the UK it’s currently 66. The gap between the actual average age people retire is smaller.


text: All the rest of the world trades with the EU under World Trade Organisation rules.
claimant: BBC Question Time
claim_date: 2016-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eus-other-trade-agreements/
title: The EU's other trade agreements - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. The EU has finalised 48 trade agreements with other countries of various kinds, beyond World Trade Organisation rules.


text: The Moderna vaccine causes a one in 35 chance of heart damage following a third dose.
claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/andrew-bridgen-covid-moderna-rishi-sunak/
title: Andrew Bridgen misrepresents study in letter to PM - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A Swiss study reports this rate of people having temporary, mild increases in a blood marker that can indicate heart damage. But none of the people in the study had confirmed heart problems diagnosed, and it is questionable if the blood marker is of clinical relevance on its own.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/pregnancy-test-testicular-cancer/
title: You shouldn’t rely on a pregnancy test to tell you whether you have testicular cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If a man takes a pregnancy test and gets a positive result, it means he most likely has testicular cancer.

textual_rating:
Some people with testicular cancer can get a positive result on a pregnancy test. But it is not a conclusive way of diagnosing yourself, and if you have any symptoms you should go to a doctor.


text: The 2015 Conservative manifesto committed the party to staying in the EU single market.
claimant: Lisa Nandy
claim_date: 2017-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/conservative-manifesto-single-market/
title: The Conservative manifesto on the single market - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The manifesto does say, “We are clear about what we want from Europe. We say: yes to the Single Market.” The manifesto also promises a referendum on EU membership, although staying in the EU and leaving its single market can be two different things.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-08-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/notting-hill-carnival-residents-payment/
review_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Homeowners in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea are given £3,000 per household to leave for the weekend of Notting Hill Carnival for the “inconvenience” caused.

title:
Kensington & Chelsea residents not given £3,000 for weekend trip to avoid Notting Hill Carnival - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no such payment. Elderly residents on the carnival route can apply to go on a free trip to Eastbourne for the weekend, run by the council and Age UK.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Tony-Blair-Octagon-PFI/
title: Tony and Cherie Blair are not directors of a PFI consortium - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tony and Cherie Blair are directors at a company involved in the PFI that funded Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which continues to receive rent from the NHS for use of the hospital.

textual_rating:
The hospital was built using a PFI. The Blairs are not and have never been directors of Octagon Healthcare, the company responsible for the PFI.


text: Amazon sprays all its packaging with toxic pesticides that can be harmful to cats.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/amazon-packaging-cats-harmful/
title: Amazon parcels do not pose widespread risk to cats - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. This claim originates from another social media post which has since been deleted. Amazon says it doesn’t spray its packaging with toxic pesticides and that its boxes are no different than most other card packaging.


text: A girl in a photograph has gone missing and needs to be reunited with her parents.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-girl-car-tantrum/
title: Missing girl Facebook post is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax that has been repeated in many different places. The photograph of the girl is at least seven years old and has appeared in a number of different places online.


text: A video shows chemtrails emerging from a plane, but not coming from the engines.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wing-tip-vortices-contrails-chemtrails/
title: White lines coming from planes aren’t evidence of ‘chemtrails’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These are trails from wingtip vortices which happen when there’s a reduction in pressure and temperature at the tip of a wing causing water to condense, leaving a trail. They are not ‘chemtrails’.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/turkey-earthquake-diplomats-evacuated/
title: Countries did not pull their ambassadors out of Turkey 24 hours before the earthquake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Ambassadors from the UK and other countries were pulled out of Turkey 24 hours before the recent earthquake.

textual_rating:
False. Several days before the earthquake a number of consulates were closed to the public due to the threat of terrorist attacks. We can find no evidence that ambassadors or diplomats were withdrawn.


text: An article was published in The Atlantic with the headline “The Soft Bigotry of ‘Bush Did 9/11’”.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-atlantic-article-bush-9-11/
title: The Atlantic did not publish an article titled ‘The Soft Bigotry of Bush did 9/11’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No such article was published by The Atlantic. Screenshots claiming to show the article have been edited.


text: Scientists find sniffing rosemary can increase memory by 75%.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/rosemary-memory-link-no-evidence/
title: No evidence that smell of rosemary boosts memory by 75% - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no record of a 75% boost beyond a quote in the Daily Mail. One of the study’s authors has since said it was actually 7.5%.


text: BBC Radio 2 DJ gets paid over £1.3 million a year but pensioners have to pay for the TV licence.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/free-tv-licence-zoe-ball/
title: Some pensioners still receive a free TV licence - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is how much Zoe Ball got paid to present her Radio 2 breakfast show in 2019/20. Pensioners under 75 have to pay the TV license. People over 75 do not have to pay for a TV licence if either they or a partner they live with receive Pension Credit, which could be as many as 1.5 million households.


text: The name ‘Ipsos MORI’ is Latin for ‘they die’.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ipsos-mori-isnt-trying-to-kill-you-with-covid-tests/
title: Ipsos MORI isn’t trying to kill you with Covid tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not really. This is what online translators translate 'Ipsos mori' to, but in reality it is garbled ungrammatical Latin. Ipsos MORI says its name was created from the merger of two companies and doesn’t mean anything.


text: Matt Hancock owns the company responsible for supplying the NHS.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hancock-supply-chains/
review_date: 2020-04-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Any health secretary will be the owner of this NHS supply company, not just Matt Hancock - Full Fact

textual_rating:
He owns it in his capacity as Health Secretary, not as a private individual. Any Health Secretary after him will also own it.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/WEF-Nicole-Schwab-climate-lockdowns/
title: No evidence Nicole Schwab said ‘permanent climate lockdowns are coming’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nicole Schwab, the daughter of WEF founder Klaus Schwab, said that “permanent climate lockdowns are coming whether you like it or not”.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence this is true. The claim appears to have come from an online article that says this “admission” was made in an “unearthed video” but the video does not show her saying this.


text: 600,000 people aged 18-24 are unemployed.
claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2016-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-unemployment-uk/
title: Immigration and unemployment in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s wrong, as of July-September 2016. About 520,000 people aged 18-24 were unemployed that summer. Taking the time of year into account, the ‘seasonally adjusted’ estimate was about 473,000.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2017-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/parents-paying-free-nursery-places/
title: Are parents paying for free nursery places? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Parents are subsidising a new flagship "free" nursery scheme for three- and four-year-olds in England from their own pockets.

textual_rating:
28% of childcare providers responding to a survey said that if they provided the new 30 hours of free childcare, there were additional costs on top for more hours, or other goods and services. We don’t know how representative this is of all childcare providers, and it’s based on a low response rate.


claimant: New England National Review
claim_date: 2022-01-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccines-aids-myocarditis/
title: Vaccinated Brits won’t have AIDS by the end of February 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Fifty percent of children who acquire myocarditis caused by Covid-19 vaccines will die within five years of diagnosis.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. It is based on misquoted data from 26 years ago. The study featured a group of largely middle-aged patients with histories of heart failure. More recent research suggests lower mortality rates.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines/
title: The Covid-19 vaccines have not only been tested on healthy people as claimed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People who were undergoing chemotherapy have been told that they should not receive vaccines, and should stay away from people who had received vaccines, and now because of Covid-19 this has all changed.

textual_rating:
People who are immunosuppressed are advised not to have live vaccinations and not to be in close contact with people who have received certain live vaccinations, but the Covid-19 vaccines in use in the UK are not live vaccines and people undergoing chemotherapy have been prioritised to receive them.


text: One in four girls or women are in period poverty and are unable to afford sanitary products.
claimant: Metro
claim_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/period-poverty-how-widespread-it/
title: Period poverty: how widespread is it? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
27% of women asked by a survey in England, Scotland and Wales said this was the case. But the survey wasn’t designed to be representative so it can’t tell us about the wider population. Other representative surveys have found the number is around one in ten.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2020-01-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lung-cancer-diagnosis-route/
title: There are some mistakes in these figures about lung cancer diagnoses - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The proportion of lung cancer cases only diagnosed after a visit to an A&E ranges from 15% in Guildford and Waverley in Surrey to 56% in Tower Hamlets and Manchester.

textual_rating:
This range is too large and not all of those will be after a visit to A&E. The correct range is from 26% in Harrogate and Rural District to 47% in Tower Hamlets.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/phone-scan-microchip-fake/
title: Video of ‘QR code’ detected in arm is not evidence of vaccine microchips - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Vaccines do not contain microchips. This is not evidence of microchips being contained in vaccines.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video appears to show a phone detecting a new “product” when placed near a man’s arm, suggesting he was implanted with an electronic device when vaccinated.


text: 98% of world trade is conducted through the WTO.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/how-much-trade-wto-terms/
title: It's not correct that 98% of world trade is done via the WTO - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
WTO members are responsible for 98% of world trade, but it’s misleading to say all of this trade is done “through” the WTO. Estimates suggest around three quarters of trade is done on WTO terms (not including trade between EU countries). Instead, many WTO member trade with each other via separate trade agreements.


claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-steel-industry/
title: Does most of the EU have no steel industry? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If the UK were in a customs union with the EU, we’ll be reliant on the European Union to protect our steel industry.

textual_rating:
Being in a customs union with the EU means we have to apply the same tariffs on steel imports as the rest of the EU does.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2022-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/january-2022-express-trade-deals/
title: Express overstates Brexit trade deal value, again - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since Brexit, Britain has been able to strike new free trade deals with 70 countries worth over £760 billion.

textual_rating:
£760 billion is the total value of bilateral trade with these countries, not the additional value of the trade deals. Many of these deals were rolled over from when the UK was a member of the EU.


text: Most teachers are suffering from depression.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2022-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/teachers-depression-nasuwt/
review_date: 2022-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Reports that ‘most teachers’ are suffering from depression are based on a self-selecting survey - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This comes from the responses of teachers who chose to complete their union's wellbeing survey and so may not be representative.


text: You cannot give blood after you’ve been vaccinated.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Twickenham-Covid-19-vaccine-claims-false/
title: Hecklers at Twickenham Stadium vaccine drive spout false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
You can, but you have to wait seven days. If you have side effects after vaccination you have to wait 28 days from after they pass.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/macron-uk-eu/
title: Emmanuel Macron hasn’t said the UK must join the Euro if it wants to remain in the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Emmanuel Macron said the UK will only be allowed to stay in the EU if they fully adopt all EU rules and regulations including adopting the Euro within six months of stopping Brexit.

textual_rating:
He hasn’t said this. If the UK remained in the EU we would have to continue following EU law, but not in areas where we have opt-outs. This means we wouldn’t have to join the Euro.


text: A picture of a moment from a new Disney+ miniseries proves that Disney is pushing a satanic agenda
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/disney-satan-christmas/
title: Disney Christmas show accused of pushing ‘satanic agenda’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This picture is missing important context. The programme as a whole makes it clear that the moment is part of a joke.


text: The National Crime Agency says that one in 35 UK men have a sexual interest in children.
claimant: Mail on Sunday
claim_date: 2015-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-many-men-have-sexual-interest-children/
title: How many men have a sexual interest in children? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The National Crime Agency told us this estimate came from “various pieces of academic research” but it wasn’t able to point us directly to a specific piece. The estimates that we’ve seen are very uncertain and—whatever the exact figure—experts on the topic stressed to us that thoughts often don’t turn into actions.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/william-shatner-space-jeff-bezos-star-trek-blue-origin-fake/
title: Fake photo of William Shatner does not prove he didn’t go into space - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo of William Shatner in uniform for the Blue Origin space mission was clearly photoshopped using an image of Jeff Bezos in the same uniform. This is proof the mission didn’t happen.

textual_rating:
This one photo does not prove anything. The image is faked, but that doesn’t mean the space mission was. There is extensive footage of Shatner before the launch, in space and after landing.


text: Buzz Aldrin admitted the Moon landings were faked in an interview.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/buzz-aldrin-moon-landing-interview/
title: Buzz Aldrin didn’t ‘admit’ he never went to the Moon - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In the clip, Mr Aldrin appears to be explaining why astronauts haven’t returned to the Moon in decades, not that they never went at all. In other interviews, Mr Aldrin clearly claims he went to the Moon.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/captain-tom-maytrix-group/
title: The Maytrix Group receives no money from Captain Tom’s fundraiser - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The charity organisers on JustGiving are called Maytrix. The people who own or set up Maytrix are Captain Tom’s daughter and son in law.

textual_rating:
While Captain Tom’s daughter did help him set up his fundraiser, and along with her husband is a director of the Maytrix Group, the company receives no money from the fundraiser.


text: More than eight million adults have numeracy skills below those expected of a 9-year-old.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/rishi-sunak-maths-unemployment/
title: The numbers behind the PM’s maths claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This appears to be based on a 2011 survey which found 23.7% (8.1 million) of those aged 16-65 in England had numeracy skills equivalent to a child aged 7-9. The working population has increased slightly since then, and we also can’t say for certain how numeracy skills may have changed since 2011.


text: Per pupil spending is falling in real terms.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-there-enough-school-places-being-created/
title: Are there enough school places being created? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. It’s expected to fall in real terms over this parliament according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies and National Audit Office.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-whats-germany-plus-deal/
title: Brexit: What’s a “Germany plus” deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Remaining in the EU gives us the right to keep control of our borders and stay out of the Schengen agreement on free movement.

textual_rating:
Remaining would allow us to carry out border checks but the UK couldn’t opt out of free movement—EU citizens would continue having the right to freely move to and work in the UK.


claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2022-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/liberal-democrats-ministers-severance-420000/
title: Liberal Democrats overstate cost of ministerial severance pay - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson and his ministers who left their government jobs between 5 July and 7 July are entitled to total of £420,000 in severance pay.

textual_rating:
This comes from a calculation by the Liberal Democrats, who have since confirmed that it is not correct. The true total is uncertain, but it appears to be around £200,000 less.


text: You cannot catch Covid-19 person to person.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mask-graphic-wrong/
title: Mask graphic contains a number of inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Like other coronaviruses, Covid-19 is spread via respiratory droplets from an infected person to an uninfected person.


claimant: Tim Farron
claim_date: 2017-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/will-hard-brexit-cost-100-billion/
title: Will a hard Brexit cost £100 billion? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Government figures say that a hard Brexit will mean £100 billion is added to the UK’s public sector debt.

textual_rating:
The most recent forecast put public sector net debt at over £160 billion higher in 2020/21 compared with the previous year’s forecast. But the forecasters, from the Office for Budget Responsibility, told us that there are a lot of factors behind this change. In November 2016 it said that voting to leave the EU would add £15.2 billion to the debt by 2020/21.


text: A photo shows Nigel Farage accompanying National Front member Martin Webster.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Farage-national-front/
title: There is no evidence to suggest Nigel Farage was a member of the National Front. - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know who the person next to Mr Webster is, but it almost certainly isn’t Mr Farage. There is no evidence to suggest Mr Farage was ever a National Front member.


text: The government is building 40 new hospitals over the next decade.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/six-hospitals-not-forty/
title: The government has given six hospitals money to upgrade buildings - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Six hospitals in England have been given the money to upgrade their buildings within the next five years. Up to 38 hospitals are being given money to develop plans for their hospitals between 2025 and 2030, but not to actually begin any building work.


text: Squalene in vaccines causes severe adverse reactions.
claimant: Rima Laibow
claim_date: 2023-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/WHO-vaccines-sterility-squalene-rima-laibow/
title: The WHO is not working on vaccines to create ‘permanent sterility’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Squalene has not been shown to be harmful in vaccines, where it is present in much smaller doses than those eaten or produced inside the human body every day.


text: One in six A&E units in England are set to be closed or downgraded.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-es-are-going-close/
title: How many A&Es are going to close? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures are mostly speculative at present. Research has shown this many could be closed or downgraded based on their current plans. At the moment we only know for definite that about a quarter of these will be closed or downgraded.


claimant: @ToryFibs
claim_date: 2020-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/schools-contact-tracing-not-escalate/
title: Contact tracing has not stopped in schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Contact tracers have been told not to trace contacts of Covid-19 cases connected to educational settings.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Contact tracers have been told to not escalate these cases to local health teams, but their contacts will still be traced nationally.


text: What the government has labelled the Omicron variant is actually cases of the common cold.
claimant: John O'Looney
claim_date: 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/funeral-director-no-evidence/
title: Funeral director’s viral claims about vaccinated people not based in fact - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Omicron variant of the virus has been sequenced, and over 45,000 cases of it have been confirmed in the UK so far.


text: Dandelion root is able to kill 98% of cancer cells within 48 hours.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/dandelion-cancer/
title: Dandelion root is not a proven cancer cure - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Laboratory studies using cancer cells have shown that dandelion root extract has anti-cancer effects, but this has not been proven in humans.


claimant: Southend News Network
claim_date: 2017-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bbc-eastenders-arabic-subtitles/
title: Middle-EastEnders? No, the BBC isn’t adding Arabic subtitles to its flagship soap - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This isn’t correct, the story comes from a satirical news website.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
From October 2019 the BBC will add permanent Arabic subtitles to EastEnders, to help refugees and other migrants refugees settle in.


text: Home ownership is on the rise.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2018-05-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/home-ownership/
title: Is home ownership on the up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct over the last year in England. The proportion of homes owned by the occupier increased by 0.5 percentage points between 2016 and 2017.  This follows year on year falls since 2004.


text: An image shows a young Palestinian girl who grew up to be a lecturer in Canada.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/palestinian-girl-lecturer/
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Facebook post claiming to show Palestinian girl who grew up to be a lecturer not what it seems - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The woman pictured is Iraqi, not Palestinian, and the ages of the girl and woman don’t match.


text: New Zealand’s MPs took a 20% pay cut during this pandemic
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mp-pay-rise-uk-new-zealand/
title: MPs haven’t given themselves a £3,300 pay rise - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave herself, government ministers and public service chief executives a 20% pay cut. Other MPs had a 10% pay cut.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-whats-germany-plus-deal/
title: Brexit: What’s a “Germany plus” deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Remaining in the EU gives us the right to vote on our laws. And a court to make sure that British people and businesses are fairly treated.

textual_rating:
Correct, remaining would mean UK citizens have a vote on legislators and to be heard in court (so does leaving).


text: Getting rid of EU customs union tariffs when we leave will help the worst off.
claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/will-getting-rid-eu-tariffs-help-worst/
title: Will getting rid of EU tariffs help the worst off? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If we set lower tariffs this may bring down costs for lowest-earning households, but tariffs are just one part of a bigger economic picture.


text: The government advice is not to challenge someone who is not wearing a face covering.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/equality-act-face-mask-discrimination/
title: Challenging someone for not wearing a face mask isn’t against the Equality Act - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government says members of the public should not challenge people for not wearing a face covering, but people who work in premises where face coverings are required can. They should be “mindful and respectful” of those who are exempt.


claimant: Scott Benton
claim_date: 2022-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/scott-benton-small-boats-economic-migrants/
review_date: 2022-04-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The vast majority of people coming across the Channel are economic migrants, they are not asylum seekers.

title:
No evidence ‘vast majority’ of people crossing Channel in small boats are economic migrants - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. Research carried out by the Refugee Council shows the majority of nationals from the countries most represented in small boat arrivals are granted asylum. The Home Office doesn’t publish statistics covering asylum claims following small boat arrivals specifically.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/data-does-not-show-tests-coronavirus-being-ordered-pre-2020/
title: This data does not show tests for coronavirus being ordered pre-2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Data from the World Integrated Trade Solutions website shows that Covid-19 testing kits were being bought and sold by countries long before the pandemic.

textual_rating:
The data shows imports and exports of general testing kits which have since been classified as for Covid-19 during the pandemic.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/5G-kraken-covid-subvariant/
title: ‘Kraken’ Covid-19 subvariant linked to baseless claims about 5G harms - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
It’s ironic the name of the new Covid subvariant is ‘Kraken’ a ‘mythical beast that kills on the waves’ as it’s really 5G waves that are harming and killing people.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence that 5G technology is harmful to human health. The name ‘Kraken’ was chosen by a Canadian biology professor in an effort to make it easier to distinguish between different subvariants.


text: An annotated map shows how many churches have been destroyed in France over the last four years.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/french-church-map/
title: This map doesn’t just show churches “destroyed” in France - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The map is not just of “destroyed” churches; it shows many types of incident including vandalism, fires, violence, and theft that has occurred in or around churches, as well as attacks on priests, and other incidents the maps’ creators deem as religiously motivated.


text: London has the best schools in the country as a result of government spending.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2016-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/london-schools-outperform-rest-england/
title: London schools outperform the rest of England - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
London pupils outperform those in every other English region for getting good GCSEs, and experts say that a government-funded programme made a big contribution to this.


text: 2016 saw the steepest fall in university applications for 30 years.
claimant: Labour Manifesto 2017
claim_date: 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-university-applications-falling-uk/
title: Are university applications falling in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. In 2016 the number of applicants to UK universities fell slightly, but not by as much as they did in 2012, following the increase in tuition fees. The number of applications to UK universities (which doesn’t include applications made after the June application deadline) rose in 2016. The number of applicants for 2017 (reported after 15 January deadline) showed a fall of 5%. This is the second largest of three falls since 2002.


text: People who arrive in the UK on small boats are put higher up on NHS waiting lists.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/asylum-seekers-nhs-waiting-lists/
title: No evidence small boat arrivals beat NHS waiting lists - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Asylum seekers, those awaiting an appeal and certain failed asylum seekers get access to free primary and secondary NHS care. But there’s no evidence they are put higher up NHS waiting lists when they do get access to healthcare.


text: New gates and QR scanners in a Sainsbury’s store are for vaccine passports.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sainsburys-qr-code-scanner-vaccine-passport/
title: QR scanners in Sainsbury’s are not for vaccine passes - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The gates and scanners have been installed as part of a trial checkout-free store in London, which is currently only open to Sainsbury’s employees.


text: Boris Johnson won the largest general election majority for 44 years.
claimant: Peter Cruddas
claim_date: 2023-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/lord-cruddas-boris-johnson/
title: Boris Johnson did not win the largest Conservative majority in 44 years - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The Conservatives had larger majorities in 1983 and 1987 while Labour had larger majorities in 1997 and 2001.


text: Remaining in the EU gives us a vote on how government spends our money.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-whats-germany-plus-deal/
title: Brexit: What’s a “Germany plus” deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, remaining would mean UK citizens vote on legislators who pass government budgets (so does leaving).


text: ONS data shows huge falls in non-Covid causes of death in December 2020.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-01-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ons-deaths-leading-causes-2015-2019/
title: ONS death figures not averaged correctly - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The data was wrong. It claimed to show a huge fall in 2020 against the previous five-year average. But that five-year “average” hadn’t in fact been divided by five, meaning it was five times too high.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2016-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/20bn-black-hole-eu-finances/
title: Is there a "£20bn black hole" in the EU's finances? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is a £20bn ‘black hole’ in the EU’s finances, which will cost the UK an extra £2.4bn after the referendum.

textual_rating:
By December 2014, the EU owed £19.4bn in payments agreed in the past to support poorer regions. The UK won’t be forced to make additional payments outside of its regular contributions.


text: The SNP does not welcome asylum seekers.
claimant: Robert Jenrick
claim_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/Scotland-does-house-refugees/
title: Immigration minister’s claims about refugees in Scotland need clarification - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If this refers to the number of asylum seekers housed in Scotland, then as of 31 March 2023, 5,086 asylum seekers were in receipt of support from local authorities in Scotland. This is proportionally fewer than the number in receipt of support from local authorities across the UK as a whole.


claimant: The Daily Sceptic
claim_date: 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/daily-sceptic-56-percent-rise-teen-deaths/
title: Teen deaths up since last year, but no evidence vaccines responsible - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Between weeks 23 and 37 in 2021 there have been 252 deaths among 15 to 19-year-olds in England and Wales. This compares to 162 in the same period in 2020, an increase of 90 (or 56%).

textual_rating:
These figures are correct but this period in 2020 saw lower than average teen deaths, so is not a normal year to compare 2021 against. The ONS, which produced the data, also says: “There is no evidence [from the data] to suggest a link with the COVID-19 vaccines”


text: Recent changes to the law mean killers could avoid whole life terms by pleading guilty.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-02-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/can-killers-now-avoid-life-prison-guilty-plea/
title: Can killers now avoid life in prison with a guilty plea? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The new sentencing guidelines don’t change the law. If a whole life order is made in court, a guilty plea will not reduce the sentence. However, a judge will factor a guilty plea into the decision about whether to make a whole life order in the first place.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/beer-mat-brexit-do-facts-stack/
title: Beer mat Brexit: do the facts stack up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and Canada have slashed tariffs—their citizens are better off as a result, and their economies have thrived.

textual_rating:
Uncertain. This is a very broad claim, and it is hard to attribute the performance of any economy to one factor such as reducing tariffs.


text: Covid-19 loan fraud has cost taxpayers £17 billion.
claimant: Kemi Badenoch
claim_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/itv-conservative-leadership-debate/
title: ITV Conservative leadership debate: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. £17 billion is the total amount estimated by the government to have been lost from various loan schemes designed to support businesses during the pandemic, not just from fraud, which is estimated to account for £4.9 billion of that total.


text: 65,000 people died of winter flu in December 2017 and January 2018.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/65000-flu-deaths/
title: There were not 65,000 flu deaths in the winter of 2017/18 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not accurate. Although the actual number is uncertain, official estimates suggest that it is less than half of this.


text: West Midlands Police agree that 17-year-old Adam Ali was “murdered” with a Covid-19 vaccine.
claimant: BitChute
claim_date: 2021-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/adam-ali-police-birmingham-death-false/
title: Police have not said a West Midlands teen was "murdered" with a Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. Adam Ali was not vaccinated before he died and police are not treating his death as a criminal matter.


claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/28-billion-public-sector-pay-increase/
review_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If everyone in the public sector had a pay rise in line with inflation, it would cost an extra £28 billion.

title:
Government’s £28 billion public sector pay increase figure doesn’t factor in money returned in tax - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is the difference between the expected wage bill this year and if it was increased by 11%. There are questions about how useful a calculation this is, but regardless, the cost would be lower than £28 billion because some of this would come back via taxation on salaries.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/margaret-thatcher-menachem-begin/
title: This is a real photo of Margaret Thatcher and Menachem Begin - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Begin ordered the killing of the two British soldiers and their bodies were booby trapped.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Menachem Begin killed World War Two veterans and then booby trapped their bodies to kill those who found them.


text: Over 100 councils have signed up to the 15 minute cities premise.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/15-minute-cities-100-councils/
title: Net Zero pledge doesn’t commit councils to implementing ‘15 minute cities’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK100 Net Zero pledge, which has been signed by more than 100 councils, does not include any commitment to implement the 15 minute cities concept.


text: Health tourism costs 0.3% of NHS spending.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-tourism-whats-cost/
title: Health tourism: what's the cost? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government’s estimate of how much "deliberate health tourism" and those taking advantage of free NHS services cost the NHS every year was around 0.3% of NHS spending allocated to specific services in 2012/13. It’s still roughly around 0.3% of total health spending.


text: Osimertinib (the lung cancer medication) has been licensed in the EU for use since 2016.
claimant: Best for Britain
claim_date: 2021-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lung-cancer-drug-brexit/
title: Conflicting claims about ‘new’ cancer drug thanks to Brexit are both misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Osimertinib has been authorised for use in the EU since 2016, but for use in later stage lung cancers. A sub body of the EMA has recently recommended that the medication be authorised for earlier use, but this has not yet been approved by the European Commission.


claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-pa-independent-36-days-nhs/
title: A patient did not wait in A&E for 36 days - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A mental health patient waited 36 days in A&E at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust.

textual_rating:
This is not correct. The trust has confirmed that the patient left A&E and then returned the following month. Some patients have waited several days at other trusts however.


text: Around 16% of the working age adult population has a disability.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-people-have-disability/
title: How many people have a disability? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is broadly correct but slightly too low. An estimated 19% of working age adults have a disability, using the Equality Act definition.


text: Heathrow Airport is used by people getting off one plane and on another.
claimant: Janet Street-Porter
claim_date: 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/heathrow-just-high-flyers/
title: Is Heathrow just for high flyers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An estimated 34% of flyers leaving Heathrow are on a connecting flight, far higher than any other London or UK airport included in the survey.


text: The suicide rate is going up.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/keir-starmer-suicide-rate/
title: The suicide rate may not have been rising in recent years - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The rate of suicide registrations in England and Wales has risen since 2007. But data for the last few years shows a mixed picture, with the rate of suicide occurrences broadly flat. Recent data is also complicated by the pandemic and a change to the way suicide is recorded.


text: The two-child benefit limit has pushed 1.5 million children into poverty.
claimant: The Skwawkbox
claim_date: 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/two-child-limit-poverty/
review_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
An estimated 250,000 children would be lifted out of poverty if the two-child benefit limit was removed - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This figure refers to the number of children in households affected by the two-child limit. An estimated 1.1 million of these children are living in poverty, of which an estimated 250,000 are in poverty because of the policy.


text: Dr Elisa Granato, one of the first participants in a UK Covid-19 vaccine trial, has died.
claimant: NewsBreak
claim_date: 2020-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/elisa-granato-fake/
review_date: 2020-04-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is false. She is not dead.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Fake stories wrongly claim Elisa Granato, one of the UK's first Covid-19 vaccine trial participants, has died - Full Fact


text: The Bank of England has said the economy will shrink 14% - the equivalent of two recessions.
claimant: Luke Johnson
claim_date: 2020-05-14T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/its-not-right-youre-more-likely-drown-die-covid-19-if-youre-under-60-no-health-problems/

title:
It’s not right that you’re more likely to drown than die of Covid-19 if you’re under 60 with no health problems - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The Bank has predicted this could happen. If it does, the recession would be more than twice as big as in 2008.


text: Photos show a dog being stolen from places in the UK by a man with a gun.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/online-dog-stolen-US-photo/
title: Hoax posts about dog thief with gun use photos from US - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photos reportedly show an incident in Ocean County, US and were first published by a local news website in New Jersey. They do not show a dog being stolen in any part of the UK.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Maui-wildfires-intentional-smart-island/
title: No evidence Maui wildfires started intentionally to create a ‘smart island’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Wildfires in Maui were started intentionally to implement plans for a ‘smart island’. A conference hosted in January and one scheduled for September are evidence of this plan.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence the fires were started intentionally to create a ‘smart island’. Smart cities were one of many topics discussed at a conference in January but are not on the agenda for the conference in September.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-boris-johnsons-brexit-deal/
title: We fact checked this viral image on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the new withdrawal agreement, only the backstop changed so all the other flaws of May's deal continue.

textual_rating:
The biggest change was to the Irish backstop, but the non-binding political declaration changed too.


text: HAARP causes clouds like the one pictured to form.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/HAARP-clouds/
title: The HAARP research facility didn’t produce peculiar clouds - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
HAARP doesn’t produce water in the atmosphere and does not interact with existing clouds, so had nothing to do with the cloud pictured. Although the cloud type is slightly rare, it has been categorised for decades and photographed many times.


text: Monzo is closing down “everyone’s” accounts and keeping the money.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/monzo-not-closing-all-bank-accounts/
title: Monzo is not closing all customers’ accounts - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. There’s no evidence that Monzo is closing a large number of accounts and the bank says it’s operating as usual.


text: Deaths rose by 650 above average during the UK heatwave
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2018-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/heatwave-how-many-deaths/
title: How many deaths from this summer’s heatwave? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, for 23 June to 13 July this year in England and Wales. The increase has been higher in previous years, and we won’t have a full picture until better statistics come out later in the year.  High temperatures have been linked to more deaths in the past.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-12-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-number-coronavirus-vaccine/
title: You don’t need your NHS number to get a Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Make sure you and your family all dig out your NHS number and have a copy of it immediately to hand for the Covid jab. NHS staff on the front line say this is the biggest bottleneck when it comes to administering the vaccine to as many people as quickly as possible.

textual_rating:
You do not need to have your NHS number with you in order to receive the vaccine. A name and date of birth is all that is required, although some trusts have asked patients to bring their NHS numbers if possible.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kwarteng-odey-hedge-fund/
title: Private Eye did not say Kwasi Kwarteng was paid £20,000 a month by a hedge fund - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Private Eye reported that Kwasi Kwarteng has been paid £20,000 a month by Odey Asset Management since he became an MP.

textual_rating:
Private Eye did not report this. It claimed Mr Kwarteng received £20,000 from the fund after he became an MP in 2010, though we’ve not seen evidence to support this figure and Private Eye has since acknowledged it may not be correct. Mr Kwarteng did register a payment for £10,000 from the fund run by Crispin Odey in 2011, but none from the same source since.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-06-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cenotaph-union-jack-burn/
review_date: 2020-06-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is incorrect. They are two different people.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
This man holding a “The UK Invented Racism” sign is the same that tried to burn the Cenotaph’s Union Jack.

title:
This person isn’t the one from viral footage of someone trying to burn the Cenotaph’s Union Jack - Full Fact


text: Changes to National Insurance thresholds will save a typical employee £330 per year.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2022-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/conservative-leadership-2022-fact-checked/
title: Conservative leadership contest: four early claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While this figure is correct in terms of the change in thresholds on 6 July, it doesn’t show the impact of the 1.25 percentage point increase in National Insurance contributions in April. Together these two changes mean people earning above £35,000 will pay more than they used to, while those earning less than £35,000 will pay less.


text: Images show aerosolized dispersal of chemicals taking place in Vietnam and the UK.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-dispersal-vietnam/
title: Image does not show chemicals being dispersed over the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While one of the images does show chemicals being sprayed by the US military during the Vietnam War, the other shows contrails from a formation of US Air Force planes.


text: There have been 1,400 deaths and one million injured from Covid-19 vaccinations in the UK.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/
title: Free paper repeats falsehoods on deaths following vaccination - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These are deaths and potential side effects reported following the vaccine, not necessarily because of it.


text: Myocarditis has been listed on Covid-19 vaccine labels in Japan as a potential side effect.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-vaccine-mandate-japan/
title: Japan has never enforced a Covid-19 vaccine mandate - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true. However, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare says the chances of contracting it are “extremely rare”.


claimant: Nigel Farage
claim_date: 2019-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/farage-ecj-disputes-trade-deal/
review_date: 2019-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The withdrawal agreement means any future free trade agreement between the UK and EU would make the European Court of Justice the ultimate arbiter of disputes.

title:
No indication that the European Court of Justice would be the arbiter of all disputes in a future UK-EU trade agreement - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The UK and EU haven’t started negotiating the free trade agreement yet so we can’t know for sure. Both sides have stated that under a future trade agreement the court would only arbitrate disputes on EU law that couldn’t be resolved by a joint committee.


text: The SNP plan to increase council tax by £768.12 per year in Aberdeenshire.
claimant: Andrew Bowie
claim_date: 2023-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/andrew-bowie-aberdeenshire-tax/
title: Minister’s claim on Aberdeenshire council tax increase missing context - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t true for the large majority of properties. This increase would apply only to about 630 Band H properties. But 99.5% of homes would see no increase or an increase up to £477.54 by 2026/27.


text: The House of Lords attendance allowance is £323 per day.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lords-allowance-pensions-true/
review_date: 2022-04-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Facebook post’s figures for the state pension and House of Lords allowance are broadly right - Full Fact


text: In June 2017 Conservative MPs voted against a pay rise for nurses.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/queens-speech-public-sector-pay/
title: Claim that Conservatives voted against a nurse pay rise needs some context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In June 2017 Conservative MPs voted against a Queen’s speech amendment calling on them to lift a cap on public sector pay rises, but later that year went on to lift the cap anyway. 

In 2018/19 nurse pay rose by more than the previous cap of 1%, but in some cases will still only have stayed at the same level in real terms.


text: There were 25% cuts to local government spending between 2010 and 2015.
claimant: Andrew Marr
claim_date: 2019-05-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/council-funding-welfare-spending-police-coalition/
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
What happened to council funding, welfare spending and police numbers under the Coalition? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Correct for England, looking at a comparable measure of council funding which includes central government grants, council tax and business rates, called “core spending power”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/smallpox-vaccine-aids-hiv/
title: No evidence for link between AIDS epidemic and smallpox vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
According to the Times in 1987, smallpox vaccines triggered the awakening of dormant HIV among recipients, causing the AIDS epidemic.

textual_rating:
The Times published an article suggesting this may have been the case 35 years ago but there is no evidence this is the case. Scientific studies have found no link between the two.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines can render you infertile.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Twickenham-Covid-19-vaccine-claims-false/
title: Hecklers at Twickenham Stadium vaccine drive spout false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. If anything, the vaccines may protect against fertility damage that the virus might cause.


text: Poland has a no-migrants policy.
claimant: Maxim Lowe
claim_date: 2019-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/does-polands-migration-policy-explain-its-lack-terror-attacks/
title: Does Poland’s migration policy explain its lack of terror attacks? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Poland doesn’t have a “no-migrants” policy but has very few foreign-born residents compared to other European countries.


text: Science fiction writer HG Wells invented the atom bomb.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nuclear-weapons-are-real/
title: Nuclear weapons do exist - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
HG Wells’s writings did, in part, inspire the development of the atom bomb, but he did not invent the atom bomb.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-latin-translation/
title: ‘Cor ona virus’ doesn’t mean ‘heart attack virus’ in Latin - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
“Cor ona virus” means “heart attack virus” when translated from Latin into English using Google Translate, which suggests the true nature of the virus has been covered up.

textual_rating:
This is not what the words mean in Latin. The word “coronavirus” has existed for decades to describe a group of viruses.


text: Greenwich council is set to remove a memorial stone to Lee Rigby.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2018-12-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/greenwich-council-lee-rigby-memorial/
title: Greenwich Council have removed a Lee Rigby memorial - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
When this article was originally written, Greenwich council told us they didn’t have plans to remove the stone. It has since been removed and replaced with an official memorial.


text: 79.7% of contacts of people who test positive for Covid-19 are reached.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/matt-hancock-test-trace/
title: Matt Hancock misstates the proportion of Test and Trace contacts being reached - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This is the proportion of people who tested positive in the first place who are reached by the system. 

In the week to 5 August 79.7% of people who were referred to the service after testing positive were reached. Close contacts were identified for 78.6% of those cases. Of those close contacts, 74.2% were reached and asked to self-isolate.


text: One million primary school pupils are set to stay home on 1 June despite schools reopening.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/one-million-schools-uncertain/
title: The figure of 1 million children not returning to school is uncertain - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on survey results of around 1,000 senior teachers asked in early May what proportion of families would keep their children at home. The results were then applied to the estimated number of students in Early Years, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maltby-rotherham-gptext/
title: This text from a GP is real - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The GP practice has confirmed that it did send the text message and it is not a hoax.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A text message claiming to come from a GP practice warning about high local Covid-19 levels is false and a scam.


text: There is a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/number-teachers-english-schools/
title: The number of teachers in English schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of new trainees is falling, but more full time equivalent teachers are joining state schools than leaving them.


claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2017-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/conservative-manifesto-single-market/
title: The Conservative manifesto on the single market - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government’s EU leaflet distributed before the referendum said that leaving the EU meant leaving the single market.

textual_rating:
The leaflet didn’t say outright that leaving the EU meant leaving the single market. It did contrast the advantages of “full access” to the market that the UK has as a member of the EU with the uncertainty and lack of full access that might occur if the UK voted to leave.


text: The number of deaths in the UK from Covid-19 is just shy of the capacity of the Manchester arena.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/stadiums-coronavirus-deaths/
title: Figure comparing arena capacity to Covid-19 deaths needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of people who died in hospital in the UK having tested positive for Covid-19, by 25 April, is around the same as the capacity of Manchester arena: about 21,000.


text: Daily Covid deaths in the UK soared on 9 November 2021.
claimant: London Evening Standard
claim_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-deaths-on-tuesday/
title: Be wary of claims Covid-19 deaths “soar” on Tuesdays - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is missing key context. The number reported on that day was higher than the day before, but this happens almost every Tuesday, which usually includes the backlog from the weekend. The weekly average number of daily reported Covid-19 deaths actually fell on 9 November 2021.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ukhsa-covid-vaccines-planned-pandemic/
title: ‘Legacy’ wording on UKHSA job advert not proof of a planned pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A UK Health Security Agency job advert for a role “during what is expected to be the UK’s largest vaccination programme” suggests it is planning a new pandemic.

textual_rating:
The UK Health Security Agency has said that the wording of the job advert is a “legacy” from a previous advert from the lead up to the Covid-19 vaccination programme which is “widely recognised as the UK’s largest ever vaccination programme”. It says there is no new vaccination programme planned although the Covid programme is ongoing. The advert was not suggesting there was going to be a new vaccination programme for a new pandemic.


text: That’s more than the £3,087.96 a Universal Credit claimant gets each year.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/MP-expenses-children/
title: What extra expenses can MPs claim if they have children? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
£3,087 is the standard annual allowance for Universal Credit from October 2021 for someone aged under 25 who is single. Claimants with children receive more than this.


text: There are more people in work than there were before the pandemic.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
title: Boris Johnson makes false employment claim for ninth time in Parliament - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There are 600,000 fewer people in work than there were before the pandemic.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-makes-false-employment-claim-for-ninth-time-in-parliament/


text: There was a large rise in the number of Covid deaths on 2 February 2022.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/534-deaths-not-a-spike/
title: Higher number of reported Covid-19 deaths down to backlog - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A large number of deaths were reported on this day, because of a delay in the system. At the beginning of February 2022, the number of deaths happening each day was falling.


text: Since 2000 we’ve given the EU £100 billion more than we’ve got back.
claimant: Change Britain
claim_date: 2018-08-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/claim-about-uks-eu-contribution-correct-meaningless/
title: This claim about the UK's EU contribution is correct, but meaningless - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Broadly correct. Since 2000 the UK has made a net contribution in cash terms of £109 billion. That’s £122 billion in real terms.


claimant: Dominic Lawson
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/where-do-uk-applicants-oxford-university-come/
title: Where do UK applicants to Oxford University come from? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The latest figures show 28% of students who applied to Oxford University from the North East got in. 24% of people from London who applied got in. But only about 700 people applied from the North East, and over 9,000 applied from London.

textual_rating:
Correct, looking at applications from, and offers to, UK-domiciled potential undergraduates between 2015 and 2017.


text: A new police officer in 2010 has seen a real-terms increase in pay of 32%.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/have-some-police-officers-had-32-pay-rise/
title: Have some police officers had a 32% pay rise? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct given the pay progression this officer would have received if continually in post, but this increase is unlikely to reflect the experience of most officers today.


text: Covid vaccines are killing people.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2022-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-misinformation-lies-vaccine-deaths/
title: Covid-19 is not ‘a lie’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While a small number of deaths have been attributed to the vaccines, it’s estimated that they have saved millions of lives.


text: Matt Hancock is the shareholder of Genomics England which is a conflict of interest.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/genomics-england/
title: All health secretaries become a shareholder of Genomics England - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Anybody who becomes the  Secretary of State for Health and Social Care automatically becomes the sole shareholder of Genomics England. This is not unique to Matt Hancock, and he will lose this role when he is no longer in office.


text: The Health Foundation has warned the NHS will lose 8,800 full-time equivalent GPs by 2030.
claimant: The Doctors' Association UK
claim_date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/GP-shortfall-16-million-patients/
title: Will 16 million patients be left without a GP by 2030? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t what the Health Foundation forecast. The figure actually refers to the projected shortfall in GPs by 2030, not the number expected to leave the NHS.


claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/minimum-wage-tax-threshold-comparison/
review_date: 2023-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has reduced the income tax and national insurance paid by someone on the average wage by about £1,100 a year.

title:
Minimum wage earners haven’t seen a ‘£1,000 reduction in their tax’ compared to what they used to pay - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Again, this is based on a counterfactual estimate of the additional amount someone earning the average wage would have paid in income tax and NICs in 2023/24, had thresholds increased in line with inflation since 2010. It doesn’t reflect how the amount of tax and NICs paid by someone on the average wage has actually changed.


text: Employment is falling.
claimant: Evening Standard
claim_date: 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/standard-wage-growth-october-2019/
title: Evening Standard wrong to say wages aren’t rising - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The number of people in employment fell slightly between April 2019 and July 2019, though the employment rate is still at close to record highs.


claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/antibody-dependant-enhancement/
title: There’s no evidence Covid-19 vaccines make the disease worse - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Evidence is growing that Covid-19 vaccines may worsen the disease in some recipients because antibodies developed as a result of the jab can end up enhancing disease rather than protecting against infection.

textual_rating:
Antibody dependant enhancement is a rare but genuine risk when it comes to creating new vaccines. There is good evidence that this does not occur with the current Covid-19 vaccines in use, from animal studies, large human trials, and real world data from people who have received the vaccine.


text: For every £1 energy companies invest in green energy, they receive 91p back from the taxpayer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/91p-invest-green-energy-companies/
title: Energy companies aren’t getting 91p for every £1 they invest in green energy - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This appears to be a misinterpretation of a recent change to UK law. In fact, under the new Energy Profits Levy Act, energy companies can get a 91p tax saving on every £1 they invest in oil and gas extraction in the UK.


text: Cutting corporation tax will boost the growth rate of the economy.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-corporation-tax-cut-pay-itself/
title: Would a corporation tax cut more than pay for itself, as Jeremy Hunt suggests? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s evidence this could happen over the long term, but it’s too limited and uncertain to put specific numbers on the effect. Cutting the tax is expected to cost more money than it raises through higher growth or investment.


text: London, Manchester and Birmingham are now all minority white cities according to new census data.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/nigel-farage-census-london-manchester/
title: London and Manchester are not ‘minority white’ cities - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim does not factor in people who identified as white but not white British, and so is not true for either London or Manchester. It is accurate for Birmingham, where 48.6% identified as white.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-magnet/
title: Covid-19 vaccines do not make you magnetic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Magnets can stick to your arm after a Covid-19 jab because they contain a microchip or other metals.

textual_rating:
This is false. The vaccines do not contain a microchip and there is nothing in a vaccine that could cause a magnet to stick to your skin after getting it.


claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2018-01-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/legal-age-limits/
title: How sweet is sixteen? Legal age limits in England and Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, although in some cases parental consent is still required for under-18s.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
At 16 we’re free from parental control, we can leave home, we can start a family, we can get married, we can start work, we can pay taxes, we can join the forces.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/diane-abbott-luxembourg/
review_date: 2019-09-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect. Her original tweet about a body found off the coast of Belgium was edited to say this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Diane Abbott said an Iraqi migrant’s body was found off the coast of Luxembourg, a landlocked country.

title:
Diane Abbott did not say an Iraqi migrant was found off the coast of a landlocked country - Full Fact


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-conservative-council-tax/
title: Labour and Conservative council tax: who costs you more? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you live in an area where the council is run by the Labour party, you pay £100 more than under the Conservatives.

textual_rating:
We haven’t been able to replicate this calculation, and in general it’s difficult to attribute the cost of council tax to a single party.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/petrol-saving-fuel-tips-money/
title: Popular tips on filling cars with petrol don’t offer big savings - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Petrol pumps are fitted with filters to prevent this happening.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Filling your car immediately after a delivery to the petrol station will result in fuel full of dirt and debris.


text: £20 a week is about two hours extra work every week for Universal Credit claimants.
claimant: Thérèse Coffey
claim_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-20-uplift-therese-coffey-labour/
title: Universal Credit: Do politicians' claims about working more hours add up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is only true in very specific circumstances, and does not mention the fact that many people who work and claim Universal Credit are affected by a 63% taper rate, which means they receive 37p for every pound they earn. It’s true that some people could make back the £20 a week by working two extra hours, but this can’t be applied to everyone.


url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-inequality-1997-2010/
title: Labour's record on inequality and social mobility: 1997 to 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The London Challenge for schools saw the most dramatic improvement in any major capital city anywhere in the world.

textual_rating:
The London Challenge scheme did see an improvement in schools in the capital, but we don’t know of any way to benchmark this against schools in other major cities.


text: All Covid-19 vaccines are experimental.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/letter-mhra-filled-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Letter to MHRA is filled with false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We have repeatedly shown that Covid-19 vaccines are not experimental; they have been through sufficient safety and efficacy trials.


text: On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. normal laundry detergent will kill it.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-claims-symptoms-viral/
title: Viral post about someone’s uncle’s coronavirus advice is not all it’s cracked up to be - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence yet that the virus can survive in clothing and be transmitted this way. Any soiled clothing should be thoroughly washed.


text: A BBC News report showed an actor pretending to be ill with Covid-19.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2021-12-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bbc-covid-crisis-actor/
title: A Covid-19 patient on BBC News is not a ‘crisis actor’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The man was a genuine Covid-19 patient, who subsequently added the phrase “crisis actor” to his Instagram profile as a joke.


claimant: LBC
claim_date: 2022-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/44-percent-health-spending/
title: Health spending isn’t set to account for almost half of all taxes - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Health spending is set to account for 44% of day-to-day public spending the year after next, so roughly 50p in the pound of all taxes levied will soon go to the health service.

textual_rating:
While health is forecast to account for 44% of budgeted departmental spending in 2024/25, this figure doesn’t factor in all other public spending. Looking at public spending as a whole, the proportion spent on health is much lower.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/doctor-nhs-increase/
title: The number of doctors working for the NHS in England has increased in the past year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you removed medical students from the NHS workforce statistics, the number of doctors has actually fallen.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The number of doctors working for the NHS in England has increased if these final year students are excluded, although to a lesser extent.


text: The UK wastes more food than any other country in Europe.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2019-11-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/corbyn-recycling-food-waste/
title: Corbyn incorrectly says UK has worst recycling in the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Data on food waste is not up to date. The latest data suggests the UK does not have the highest level of food waste per person.


text: £37 billion was spent on the test and trace app.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/37-billion-test-and-trace-app-scam/
title: The NHS Test and Trace app did not cost £37 billion - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the total budget for the entire NHS Test and Trace programme in its first two years. In the 2020-21 financial year, the app cost around £35 million.


text: Some of the foreign aid budget went on China’s film and museum industry last year.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2018-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-foreign-aid-funding-filming-beijing/
title: Is UK foreign aid funding filming in Beijing? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, at least £440,000 of Overseas Development Aid was spent on Chinese film, TV and museum projects in 2016/17.


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2023-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mirror-cardiovascular-excess-deaths-bhf/
title: Mirror wrong to say NHS standards ‘since Covid’ behind excess cardiovascular deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Almost 100,000 extra people have died of heart attacks and strokes in England because NHS care standards have collapsed since the pandemic.

textual_rating:
This figure includes deaths that occurred at the height of the pandemic. In total, more than 70,000 people with cardiovascular disease died of Covid in the period covered by this research.


text: The EU has decided to increase the size of fisherman’s meshes.
claimant: Ann Widdecombe
claim_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/fishermens-mesh-eu-parliament-speech/
review_date: 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
There’s no solid evidence to support this Brexit Party MEP’s claim about fishermen’s nets - Full Fact

textual_rating:
EU regulation has changed and there is now a minimum mesh size in certain areas. That came in place on 1 July 2019.


text: They [migrants] also affect public services.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-immigration/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on immigration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Impacts of immigration are likely to vary by local area. Immigrants may add to demand for and pressure on public services, but also contribute to financing and providing them.


text: The deficit in Scotland is three times that of the UK as a whole.
claimant: Anne McElvoy
claim_date: 2017-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-big-scotlands-deficit-compared-uk-whole/
title: How big is Scotland’s deficit compared to the UK as a whole? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct as a proportion of GDP, whether or not revenue from the North Sea is included.  In monetary terms, the UK deficit is larger.


claimant: Blog post
claim_date: 2020-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italy-covid-5g/
title: Facebook post about Italy, coronavirus and 5G is almost all false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The WHO never said autopsies couldn’t take place.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Italy disobeyed world health law from the WHO saying not to carry out autopsies on Covid-19 patients.


text: The number of police officer could be the lowest since the 1970s following funding cuts.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2015-08-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/police-numbers-back-1970s/
title: Police numbers: back to the 1970s? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The cuts have yet to be announced and we don't know how they'd affect officer numbers. A cut of 14,000 officers would mean the lowest number since the 1970s.


claimant: Anneliese Dodds
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-wages/
title: What does immigration do to wages? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is little evidence that falling wages are being caused by migration, aside from in construction.

textual_rating:
Studies find that immigration affects low-waged workers the most, in low-skilled and semi-skilled jobs generally not just in construction.


text: Educational attainment in Scotland is at record levels.
claimant: Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
claim_date: 2017-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/education-attainment-scotland-record-levels/
title: Is educational attainment in Scotland at record levels? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It depends on which measure you look at. 15 year olds’ performance in international exams is falling, but at the same time more pupils are leaving school with Higher qualifications..


text: Over the past two years, unemployment is down.
claimant: Thérèse Coffey
claim_date: 2022-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/therese-coffey-employment-down-april-2022/
title: Thérèse Coffey wrong to claim employment is up over the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. It fell by 28,000 (0.1 percentage points) between the three months to February 2020 and the three months to January 2022.


text: Asymptomatic transmission is quackery.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lateral-flow-tests-asymptomatic-transmission/
review_date: 2022-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Soft drinks shouldn’t be ‘tested’ with lateral flow tests and asymptomatic transmission is not ‘quackery’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 has been shown to be an important factor in how  Covid-19 can spread.


text: The EU banned the crown symbol from appearing on pint glasses.
claimant: Mail On Sunday
claim_date: 2022-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/crown-pint-glasses-CE-mark/
title: EU rules didn’t ‘ban’ crown symbols on pint glasses - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2006, EU legislation implemented the CE mark as the mark of an accurate measure on pint glasses. This meant all glasses had to bear the CE mark, but the EU rules did not ban the crown symbol, and the EU did not order the UK to remove it. It was technically allowed under the rules if used in a decorative way rather than as a marker of accuracy.


text: Covid-19 is a flu and nothing more.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-vaccines/
title: Results of Covid-19 vaccine trials have been published and peer-reviewed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Covid-19 has killed more people than flu in a given season and is caused by a different organism.


text: The number of deaths in England and Wales is below average for this time of year.
claimant: John Lee
claim_date: 2021-01-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-deaths-winter-2020-talkradio/
title: More people are dying than usual at the moment - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Over the final four weeks of 2020, the number of deaths was 16% above the 27-year average and 20% above the five-year average.


text: 4.7 million unpaid carers fear getting sacked over caring commitments.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/express-employed-carers/
title: An Express headline on how many working carers fear for their job is flawed - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is based on the results of a survey question answered by 280 working carers meaning there is some uncertainty about how accurate the figure is. It asked whether they thought they would ever have no option but to leave their existing job to help care for a dependent or relative due to lack of support and flexibility from their employer.


claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2023-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-junior-doctors-strikes-excess-deaths/
title: Official death data doesn’t tell us whether junior doctors’ strikes cost lives - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Official data shows that strikes are one of the reasons why excess deaths rose in England in March 2023.

textual_rating:
Official data shows a rise in excess deaths in England at this time, but this does not mean that strikes were necessarily a factor. A similar rise occurred at the same time in Wales, where there were no strikes.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2017-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sign-saying-tube-summer-smells-16-year-old-ham-fake/
title: This sign saying the tube in summer smells like 16-year-old ham is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: It is a fake sign.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Transport for London issued a tube sign advising passengers to wear deodorant in hot weather and saying the tube smelt like “someone left a ham behind a radiator” in summer.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/black-caribbean-pupils-three-times-more-likely-be-excluded/
title: Black Caribbean pupils three times more likely to be excluded - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Black Caribbean students are three times more likely to be permanently excluded than other children.

textual_rating:
This is correct, although gypsy/Roma students and travellers of Irish heritage were most likely to be excluded.


text: There are almost 11,800 more doctors than in 2010.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2017-08-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-there-more-doctors-nhs-2010/
title: Are there more doctors in the NHS than in 2010? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is roughly correct looking at doctors working in NHS hospitals and community health services in England.


text: Under this government half a million more disabled people are in work.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-disabled-people-are-work/
title: How many disabled people are in work? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Since 2013 the number of disabled people in work has increased by just under half a million. Under the current government the number of disabled people in the UK in work has increased by around 100,000 since 2015.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-ingredients/
title: This image about vaccine ingredients is extremely misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Formaldehyde is in vaccines and causes cancer in humans among other issues and is banned from vaccines in most European countries.

textual_rating:
It’s not banned in Europe. There are only trace amounts in certain vaccines and not enough to be carcinogenic.


text: In 2017 the UK resettled more refugees from outside Europe than any other EU member state.
claimant: Migration Watch
claim_date: 2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/how-many-refugees-does-uk-take/
title: How many refugees does the UK take in? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Technically correct, but resettled refugees are only a subset of all refugees a country might take in. Overall, Germany, France, Austria and Sweden all granted asylum to more refugees than the UK did in 2017.


text: For every donation the charity organisers take 1.98% off the fee plus 20p per each donation.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/captain-tom-maytrix-group/
title: The Maytrix Group receives no money from Captain Tom’s fundraiser - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
JustGiving charges payment processing fees for card and Paypal payments, charged at 1.9% of the donation plus 20p. The charge is 2.9% plus 20p for donations in other currencies.


claimant: Veronique Desaulniers
claim_date: 2023-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mammograms-hiroshima-radiation/
title: Mammogram radiation levels aren’t comparable with nuclear bomb - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Canadian study showed no mortality improvement with mammograms, and that breast self-examination was equally effective.

textual_rating:
The study did not find a mortality benefit when compared to physical examinations, but it found that mammograms picked up many cancers that examinations did not. Other large studies have shown an improvement in death rates with mammograms.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/dominic-cummings-quote/
title: Dominic Cummings did not say this phrase about genetics and poor people - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There’s no record of him having written or having said this phrase.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Dominic Cummings said “Poor people are poor because they have inferior genes and brains. Rich people are rich because they are superior.”


text: The party with the most MPs gets to form the government.
claimant: Jim Murphy
claim_date: 2015-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/does-largest-political-party-form-government/
title: Does the largest political party form the government? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In a hung Parliament, there's no rule that the largest party forms a government. It might get the first chance to try, but the incumbent can also claim this.


text: Until 2004, immigration was around 50,000 a year and it’s risen since then.
claimant: Richard Tice
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-uk-has-been-rising/
title: Immigration to the UK has been rising - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
50,000 is wrong, although immigration did increase considerably after 2004 as new countries joined the EU.


text: Official UKHSA data shows booster vaccines are ineffective.
claimant: Mark Steyn
claim_date: 2022-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mark-steyn-ukhsa-vaccine-data/
title: GB News presenter wrong about booster vaccine deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on an inaccurate reading of a vaccine surveillance report, which specifically includes a caveat warning that the data can’t be used to determine vaccine effectiveness.


text: The Pfizer vaccine trial was underpowered to detect rare side effects or efficacy.
claimant: HART Group
claim_date: 2021-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Hart-Newsround-report-misleading/
title: Critical report on BBC Newsround story is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true the study was underpowered to detect rare adverse effects although this limitation is typical of studies of its type. Rare adverse effects which were recorded were unrelated to the vaccine. The data in the trial also clearly shows far fewer children who had a vaccine subsequently contracted Covid-19.


text: A record number of people killed themselves in English and Welsh prisons in 2016.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2017-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/record-self-inflicted-deaths-prisons/
title: Record self-inflicted deaths in prisons - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct, going back to 1978. The rate of self-inflicted deaths per 1,000 prisoners is also close to a record high.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-2-election-fraud-macron-le-pen/
title: Clip of French TV shows technical glitch, not election fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A French news channel showed during the count for the presidential election that Marine Le Pen had more votes than Emmanuel Macron, but her votes were later reduced, suggesting electoral fraud.

textual_rating:
France 2, which showed the erroneous graph, has confirmed the inconsistency in figures was due to a technical glitch.


text: England’s test and trace system cost £22 billion.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flawed-comparisons-between-test-and-trace-systems-go-viral/
title: Flawed comparisons between test and trace systems go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was the amount allocated to Test and Trace for 2020/21 by the UK government but the actual level of spending has been lower than this. Also some of this money is spent in the other three UK nations.


text: The UK government knew Covid-19 was a simple flu.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-simple-flu/
title: Covid-19 is not a ‘simple flu’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. Flu and Covid-19 infections do share some similar characteristics, but they are not the same virus.


claimant: The Washington Post
claim_date: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/washington-post-long-covid/
title: Washington Post overstates prevalence of long Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
At least 50% of people who survive Covid-19 have debilitating health issues in the months afterwards.

textual_rating:
This is far too high. There are various estimates for the prevalence of long Covid. The Office for National Statistics estimated that 7.5% of people infected with Covid-19 self-reported having long Covid three  months after infection which limited their  daily activities.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/bbc-clpe-reflecting-realities/
title: A survey of diversity in children’s books is flawed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Just 10% of children’s books in the UK in 2019 had at least one character from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background.

textual_rating:
This figure comes from flawed research and is not reliable. It’s also important to consider that many books in the survey did not have human characters.


text: More people are being prosecuted for carrying a blade.
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-more-people-being-prosecuted-carrying-knives/
title: Are more people being prosecuted for carrying knives? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. There was a 12% increase in the number of prosecutions for possession of an article with blade or point in England and Wales between 2016 and 2017, to just under 9,000. It’s been rising since at least 2013.


text: You’re just as likely to be hit in your home by a plane falling out of the sky.
claimant: POLITICO/BMJ
claim_date: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/astrazeneca-vaccine-risk-comparison/
review_date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The chance of being killed by a cow and other AstraZeneca vaccine risk comparisons explained - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This probability appears to have been calculated by an academic in the US in 1997 so won’t accurately represent the risk to a UK citizen in 2021.


claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-women-leave-northern-ireland-have-abortion-britain/
title: How many women leave Northern Ireland to have an abortion in Britain? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Figures published ahead of the Irish referendum on abortion show only 43 women came from Ireland to have an abortion in England last year.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. 3,265 women living in Ireland came to England and Wales for an abortion in 2016. 43 refers to the reported number of women from one hospital who came to the UK so far in 2017.


text: All cameras on the M1 and M25 went live recently, set at 72mph.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/M1-M25-72mph/
title: These claims about speed cameras on the M1 and M25 aren’t true - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Highways England says it is not aware of any changes on these roads. The normal speed limit on motorways and dual carriageways is up to 70mph although it may be lower at some points on these roads.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/jaguar-amazon-fire/
title: This picture of a man swimming with a jaguar isn’t from the 2019 Amazon fires - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows an animal that threw itself into the water to escape the Amazon fires being rescued by a Brazilian soldier.

textual_rating:
The picture was taken in 2016 and is of a jaguar which is one of the Brazilian army’s mascots. The image most likely shows the jaguar playing in the water with a soldier.


text: There are 2 million illegal immigrants in the UK.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/two-million-illegal-borders/
title: There almost certainly aren’t as many as two million unauthorised immigrants in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is much higher than even the upper end of an estimate of how many people were in the UK in 2017 without a permit to be there.


claimant: Ben Spencer
claim_date: 2016-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/there-shortage-maternal-mental-health-services/
title: Is there a shortage of maternal mental health services? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
43% of health boards in England provide no specialised mental health service for new or expecting mothers.

textual_rating:
This was correct in 2014 and is still about right. Updated figures from the Maternal Mental Health Alliance show that 39% of Clinical Commissioning Groups have no community mental health services for pregnant or new mothers. 19% had services which met Royal College of Psychiatrists standards.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-costs-image-wrong/
title: This image on the costs of Brexit is very misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence for this in the report cited by the claimant, nor elsewhere.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There will be between 700,000 and 2,800,000 fewer jobs as a result of several different options for post-Brexit trade deals with the EU.


text: A facemask is not going to save you from a virus and they can cause pneumonia.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/funeral-director-interview/
title: False claims from funeral director about facemasks, vaccines and the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The guidance has changed throughout the pandemic, however current thinking is that face masks can play a useful role in preventing the spread of Covid-19. There is no evidence to suggest that they cause pneumonia.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/two-doctors-same-name-cause-times-letter-confusion/
title: Two doctors with same name cause Times letter confusion - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A letter to The Times newspaper was signed by a Mr Martin Spiro. Records from the General Medical Council show that the only Martin Spiro registered died five years ago.

textual_rating:
There are two Martin Spiros, as confirmed by the General Medical Council. One of them voluntarily removed themselves from the Council’s register in 1993. Their record was subsequently not uploaded when the register was digitised in 2005.


url: https://fullfact.org/crime/dial-999-silent-call-hang-up/
review_date: 2020-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you are in the UK and under coronavirus lockdown with an abusive partner dial 999, wait to be connected, press 55 & hang up.

title:
If you need the police but can’t talk, dial 999 from a mobile, then 55 when prompted and don’t hang up - Full Fact

textual_rating:
You will only be prompted to press 55 on a silent call from a mobile. And you should not hang up after typing 55. You should try and cough, tap the handset or whisper to communicate on an emergency call if possible.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/black-lives-matter-stickers/
title: Black Lives Matter Scotland say they did not produce “Kill a White On Sight” stickers - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The group have denied the material came from them.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Black Lives Matter Scotland have produced posters and stickers with phrases such as “Kill a white on sight” on them.


text: There are only about 50 large companies that trade across the Irish border.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2018-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/irish-border-trade-checks/
title: Irish border: how much trade? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Roughly 100 large companies (with 250+ employees) in Northern Ireland made export deliveries to the Republic in 2016, making up 11% of deliveries to Ireland. We don’t have data for those exports going to the North from the Republic.


text: Fruit Shoot and oranges can test positive for Covid-19 using a lateral flow test.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fruit-shoot-orange-positive-lateral-flow-covid-test/
title: Fruit Shoot and oranges can’t test positive for Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No, they can’t. What looks like a positive test result is actually just the test breaking as a result of it being used incorrectly.


text: Measles is at the top of the list of the MMR vaccine’s adverse reactions.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/measles-vaccine-adverse-reactions/
title: Measles is not the “number one side effect” of the MMR vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Atypical measles is listed as one of the “adverse reactions” of the MMR vaccine used in the US and one of the UK brands (it is not “top” of these lists). That’s because people vaccinated with a certain brand of measles jab in the 60s and 70s were still able to get “atypical measles” if they were exposed to a certain measles strain. The other UK brand lists “atypical measles” as a “possible side effect” as some people who were given that MMR vaccine got atypical measles if they also got the old measles jab.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-western-countries-terrorism/
review_date: 2020-04-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
While western countries have been busy fighting the new coronavirus, international terrorism has stopped.

title:
It is not true that worldwide terrorism has stopped while western countries fight Covid-19 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not true. There have been multiple terror attacks around the world in March and April this year, leaving hundreds of people dead.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/shingles-monkeypox-vaers/
title: Monkeypox isn’t shingles in disguise - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
13,783 cases of shingles, one of the adverse reactions of the Covid vaccines, are reported on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

textual_rating:
Around 13,000 cases of shingles have been reported on VAERS, but that doesn’t mean the vaccine caused them.


claimant: Lord Grantchester
claim_date: 2015-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-jobs-could-be-lost-onshore-wind/
title: How many jobs could be lost in onshore wind? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Closing the Renewables Obligation to onshore wind a year early could threaten 19,000 jobs supported by the industry.

textual_rating:
There were about 11,000 people directly employed by onshore wind and 8,000 in 'supply chain' roles in 2013, according to government estimates. It's uncertain how many people will see their employment threatened by the closure of the Renewables Obligation


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tasuku-honjo-coronavirus/
title: A Nobel Prize-winning immunologist has not said coronavirus is manmade, as claimed - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect. Professor Honjo has denied saying this and there is no evidence that he ever did.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, caused a sensation today in the media by saying that the corona virus is not natural.


claimant: Toby Young
claim_date: 2019-03-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/climate-change-school-curriculum/
title: Setting the record straight on climate change in the school curriculum - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
All English schoolchildren are taught geography until at least the age of 14 — many until 16 — and in geography they’re taught about climate change.

textual_rating:
Correct. Climate change is also part of the science curriculum in England, which all children are taught up to the age of 16. Some students have recently said they’re not learning enough about climate change on the current curriculum.


text: Spain wants money from the UK to cover its debts.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-will-not-collapse-france-germany/
title: Viral post has flawed understanding of EU debt - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve seen no evidence it has asked for this, and the amounts Spain receives from the EU budget are a tiny fraction of its debt.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/mask-challenge-offence-fine/
title: Fake government guidance is wrong about face masks and equality laws - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you challenge someone not wearing a face mask you can be held personally liable for a summary offence under equality laws and could be subject to a fine of up to £9,000.

textual_rating:
While the government advises that members of the public should not challenge someone who is not wearing a face covering, doing so does not constitute a criminal offence.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/radio-4-you-and-yours-vaccine-hesitancy/
title: Radio 4 programme featured Covid vaccine misinformation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An Israeli study found that natural immunity was better at protecting people from Covid-19 than the vaccine.

textual_rating:
An Israeli research paper did find that immunity from prior infection may be more effective at protecting a patient from Covid-19 than vaccination. However, the study also found that a combination of natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity was even more effective.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/birth-certificate-freeman-land/
title: Video makes misleading claims about birth certificates and the law - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Your name, as registered at birth, is a fictional legal entity which you can choose whether or not to use. Obligations such as attending court are optional if you disregard what is described as the fictional legal entity.

textual_rating:
These beliefs have previously failed as a defence in UK courts. All births in England, Wales and Northern Ireland must be registered within 42 days of the child being born. In Scotland a birth must be registered within 21 days.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2015-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/why-are-there-so-many-migrants-calais/
title: Why are there so many migrants at Calais? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK's welfare system, public services and lax border controls explain the presence of migrants at Calais trying to cross.

textual_rating:
Benefits aren't available to illegal immigrants, although asylum seekers get some support and use of public services. It's hard to say how secure the border is.


text: New grammar schools may be required to set up feeder primary schools in poorer areas.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/governments-proposals-could-change-what-we-know-about-selection/
title: The government’s proposals could change what we know about selection - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government is proposing and consulting on this option. Pupils' backgrounds are part of what makes current grammar school different from other schools, so proposals like this could mean that research about current grammar schools won't be a perfect guide to the impact that new grammar schools would have on social mobility.


text: One in 10 children have started self-harming.
claimant: The Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/guardian-mirror-independent-children-self-harm/
review_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Child self-harm numbers in the Guardian, Mirror and Independent don’t reflect survey’s actual findings - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect. This comes from the same survey which was of parents, not children, so we don’t know how many children it described. In this survey, the proportion of all parents who reported their children had started self-harming was more like 3%.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/face-masks-covid-holes/
title: The holes in face masks don’t mean they’re useless - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Face masks, especially surgical masks, have been shown to reduce Covid-19 infection.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Face masks are useless at stopping Covid-19 because the gaps in them are larger than a Covid-19 viral particle.


text: The UK is the second largest bilateral humanitarian aid donor to Syria.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-now-second-or-third-largest-donor-aid-syria/
title: The UK is now the second or third largest donor of aid to Syria - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK used to be the second largest aid donor to Syria since 2012, but it is now third behind Germany, according to the United Nations.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/strep-a-scarlet-fever-antibiotics-homeopathy/
title: Facebook post makes harmful claims about treating scarlet fever without antibiotics - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Homeopathic treatments including colloidal silver should be given to treat scarlet fever and other strep A infections.

textual_rating:
Homeopathic treatments are not recommended for treating strep A infections. Colloidal silver can be toxic to humans, with side effects including turning the skin grey.


text: The working week in Germany is 28 hours.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-germany-working-week/
title: UK taxpayers aren’t subsidising France’s 35-hour working week - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is only for some workers. In 2018, Germany’s largest trade union won a two-year deal for its 900,000 members to work a 28-hour week. German employees can work up to 40 hours a week. If they work longer than this, they must be compensated through additional holiday.


text: A&E waiting times in England are the best in two years.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/accident-and-emergency-rishi-sunak-nhs-waiting-times/
title: Data doesn’t seem to back up PM’s claim that A&E waits are ‘the best in two years’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The most recent NHS data shows that while there have been improvements to A&E waiting times in England in recent months, June 2023 was not the best month in the last 24. Health experts have also said the claim is “difficult to square” with public data.


text: Police funding has risen from £12.1bn in 2015/16 to £16.9bn in 2022/23.
claimant: Home Office
claim_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/priti-patel-home-office-police-funding-tweet/
title: Priti Patel’s tweet on police funding doesn’t account for inflation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true in cash terms but fails to take into account inflation, meaning the actual increase in police spending is much lower.


text: A video of Bill Gates casts doubt on whether the Covid-19 vaccines work.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bill-gates-dont-know/
title: We do know that Covid-19 vaccines work - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It doesn’t. Bill Gates was speaking in July 2020, before the results of the vaccine trials were known.


text: There are 6,000 fewer people in the caseload of the asylum backlog.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/rishi-sunak-asylum-backlog/
title: No evidence to support Rishi Sunak’s asylum backlog claim - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The latest published data, for December 2022, shows that in total there were over 17,000 more people waiting for applications to be resolved than in September. It’s possible the number of ‘legacy’ unresolved cases opened before 28 June 2022 has fallen by 6,000, but we’ve not found any published data to show this.


text: A record number of new homes were built in the last year.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2022-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rishi-sunak-house-building-pmq/
title: No evidence for Rishi Sunak’s claim about ‘record’ number of new homes built - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve not found any evidence to support this claim in the various official statistics, and Downing Street has not provided any. The most recent published data shows 173,520 new homes were completed in England in the year to June 2022, slightly down on the previous year. Experts told us while recent building figures are higher than in some previous years, they’re generally far lower than records set decades ago.


text: One in five over-65s in the UK is classified as a millionaire
claimant: Sunday Times
claim_date: 2021-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/millionaire-pensioners/
title: Golden oldies: Are one in five pensioners millionaires? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
One in five households in Great Britain, headed by an over-65, has a total wealth of over a million pounds.


claimant: British Influence
claim_date: 2015-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/how-much-money-do-british-universities-get-eu/
title: How much money do British universities get from the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
UK universities get 15% extra money in funding from the EU, on top of what the government gives them.

textual_rating:
15%, or a little higher, is a rough estimate of additional EU research and development funding; this isn't only for universities. British higher education providers get at least 2.6% of their <i>total</i> income from the EU, or around 16% of their <i>research</i> income.


text: Visits to a GP or A&E for self-treatable conditions cost the NHS £850 million a year.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2018-02-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/18-million-gp-appointments-pharmacists/
title: Could 18 million GP appointments be seen by pharmacists? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We have limited evidence on the number of self-treatable appointments, so any cost estimate is fairly rough. How much could be saved by avoiding these appointments depends on whether the number of staff or buildings used could be reduced as a result.


text: The average salary for nurses increased from £22,000 in 2010 to £25,000 in 2020.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-salaries/
review_date: 2020-02-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
MPs salaries have grown faster than starting salaries of nurses, teachers and police officers - Full Fact

textual_rating:
In 2010, a starting (not average) salary for a newly qualified nurse was £21,200; it is now £24,200. Factoring in inflation, this amounts to a 5% decrease.


text: There were 99 daily deaths from stroke in England in October.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/uk-column-covid-deaths/
title: A comparison of daily deaths from Covid-19 and non-Covid causes is incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems to be based on figures from the British Heart Foundation. An estimation based on 2019 figures suggests a figure of 65 daily deaths.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/5g-sign-not-official/
title: Mobile phone base stations like this do not pose a radiation risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence that this is the case.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Prolonged exposure to radiofrequency radiation from a mobile phone antenna may exceed the recommended guidelines.


text: 700,000 people died homeless on our streets last year.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2020-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/deaths-homeless-john-mcdonnell/
title: 726 homeless people are estimated to have died in England and Wales in 2018 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. 726 people are estimated to have died in England and Wales in 2018 who were either sleeping rough or in emergency accommodation at the time of their death or shortly before.


text: The Earth’s core has stopped spinning and may have reversed direction.
claimant: Metro
claim_date: 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/earth-inner-core-still-spinning/
title: The Earth’s core has not stopped rotating - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Earth’s inner core is still spinning. However, it may now be spinning at the same speed as the rest of the planet, or slower.


text: There are 36,000 fewer teachers today.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/list-2010-claims/
title: Post comparing the UK today to 2010 has a number of errors - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were 24,000 more teachers in 2021 than in 2010. Around 36,000 teachers left the profession in 2020/21 but this does not represent an overall decline as around 42,000 teachers joined that year.


text: 52% of police officers have been found guilty of sexual misconduct while wearing uniform.
claimant: Good Morning Scotland
claim_date: 2021-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/good-morning-scotland-52-percent-police/
title: Most police have not been found guilty of sexual misconduct - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. It comes from confusion over a Byline Times report, which claimed that 42 out of 83 (52%) of Metropolitan Police officers kept their jobs after being found to have committed sexual misconduct.


text: Cocaine use among young people is at its highest level for a decade
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-young-people-taking-more-cocaine/
title: Are more young people taking cocaine? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Cocaine use is at a nine-year high among 16-24 year olds in England & Wales. 6% had taken cocaine in the past year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/reversing-HGV-test-DVSA-false/
title: Photo of lorry stuck in Bristol harbour used to spread misinformation about HGV tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo of a lorry which fell into Bristol harbour, backside first, demonstrates why the government should not have taken reversing out of the HGV driving test.

textual_rating:
The government hasn’t taken reversing out of the test. It was recently announced that a third party will carry out parts of the test, including reversing,  for certain types of vehicles, instead of the DVSA. The photo of the lorry is from a genuine incident in Bristol.


text: Bus fares have gone up by 60% since 2010.
claimant: Lisa Nandy
claim_date: 2020-02-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/lisa-nandy-bus-fares-increase/
title: Bus fares have risen faster than wages since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, looking at one measure which includes coach fares too. However, this increase doesn’t factor in the rise in wages over the same period.


claimant: Philip Hammond
claim_date: 2016-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-productivity-gap/
title: Productivity in the UK workplace: London vs. the rest - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The gap between productivity in London and the UK’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th cities is greater than in any other major economy in the world.

textual_rating:
There is a significant ‘productivity gap’ between London and other cities in the UK; and it does seem to be relatively large compared to the largest European economies. We haven’t seen an analysis wide-ranging enough to claim that it’s greater than all other major economies.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-water-breath-test-bad-advice/
review_date: 2020-03-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence to suggest this test can show if you have the new coronavirus.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
To test for the new coronavirus, take a deep breath and hold for more than 10 seconds. If you complete it successfully without coughing, discomfort, stuffiness or tightness it proves there is no fibrosis in the lungs, basically indicating no infection.

title:
Holding your breath is not an indicator of whether you have the new coronavirus, and drinking water doesn’t protect against it - Full Fact


claimant: Cenk Hoca
claim_date: 2020-12-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/week-47-2020-deaths/
title: False death figures go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Up to week 47 of 2020, there were only 511,883 deaths in England and Wales, 20,000 fewer than the number of deaths in 2019.

textual_rating:
False. Up to and including week 47 there were 542,463 deaths registered in England and Wales. Across the whole year there were 608,002 deaths registered, 77,000 more than in 2019.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/murky-claims-about-sewage-bill-fact-checked/
title: Murky claims about sewage bill fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In recent weeks the government has allowed water companies to discharge sewage into rivers due to Brexit disrupting deliveries of water treatment chemicals.

textual_rating:
The Environment Agency has cited the UK’s relationship with the EU as one of the factors affecting the supply of water treatment chemicals to the UK.


text: Increasing numbers of vaccines are associated with increasing rates of autism.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccines-dont-cause-autism/
review_date: 2019-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Autism prevalence is up but scientists have consistently found that vaccines don’t cause it - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Dozens of scientific studies have shown there is no link between autism or autism spectrum disorders and vaccines.


text: Home ownership is at its lowest level in a generation.
claimant: John Healey MP, Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning
claim_date: 2016-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/home-ownership-lowest-generation/
title: Home ownership: the lowest in a generation? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, taking a "generation" as around 30 years. The proportion of households owning their own home is at its lowest since 1984.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Mcdonalds-halal/
title: Fake claims about McDonald’s ingredients are recirculating on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
McDonald’s lost its case after years of trying to conceal that its burgers are 100% beef, as only 15% is beef and the remaining 85% is not.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence of such a case or findings against McDonald’s in the UK. McDonald’s confirmed it uses 100% beef in its beef burgers in the UK.


text: Nine in 10 school-age girls are being sent explicit images.
claimant: Maria Miller
claim_date: 2021-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/maria-miller-nine-ten-girls-ofsted/
title: Nine in 10 girls did not say they’d been sent explicit images - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The evidence, which comes from an Ofsted survey, does not support this claim. It found that 88% of girls said this happens among young people—not that it had happened to them.


text: The withdrawal agreement does not create any form of separation for Northern Ireland.
claimant: Claire Perry
claim_date: 2018-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-agreement-northern-ireland/
title: Does the Brexit withdrawal agreement mean Northern Irish separation? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not strictly correct. The withdrawal agreement includes a backstop arrangement. If that kicks in Northern Ireland will operate under different rules to the rest of the UK.


text: Sixteen million people could be left without a GP in a decade.
claimant: The Doctors' Association UK
claim_date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/GP-shortfall-16-million-patients/
title: Will 16 million patients be left without a GP by 2030? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is based on the Health Foundation’s projections on GP shortages. But the Health Foundation says its projections don’t necessarily mean that patients won’t be able to register with a GP. It says it’s more likely patients will have a GP, but won’t receive the same standard of care.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/meghan-markle-queen-funeral/
review_date: 2022-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Meghan Markle wore an outfit similar to one worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, to the Queen’s funeral.

title:
Photo of Meghan Markle in outfit similar to Princess Diana’s was not taken at Queen’s funeral - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The picture of Meghan Markle in the outfit is from a 2019 Remembrance Sunday event, not the Queen’s funeral.


text: Charles Bronson’s parole bid has been successful and he is due to be released.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-03-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Charles-Bronson-parole-hearing/
title: Outcome of Charles Bronson’s parole hearing has not yet been announced - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Ministry of Justice says that as of Thursday 23 March there has been no announcement about the outcome of his parole hearing, though one is expected imminently.


text: More than 80% of UK councils have failed to take in any refugees since 2015.
claimant: Christopher Hope
claim_date: 2016-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/where-uk-refugees-councils/
title: Where are the UK's refugees? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct in terms of the flagship scheme for resettling Syrian refugees, although the figures don’t cover the past four months. Many more councils have accepted asylum seekers through the regular asylum system.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-01-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/google-paying-3-tax/
title: Is Google paying 3% tax? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Independent experts have suggested that Google is paying an effective tax rate on its UK profits of around 3%.

textual_rating:
This all comes down to how people think Google’s “economic activity” in the UK should be defined. Several experts have said that the amount of tax that Google is paying over the last decade represents only around 3-5% of the profits that they think Google should be taxed on. HMRC says that Google will be paying the full tax due. Without the full details, we don’t know to what extent this agreement accounts for the concerns that people have about Google’s tax arrangements.


text: The number of children living in poverty has risen from 2.6 million in 2010 to 4.2 million now.
claimant: Kim Johnson
claim_date: 2023-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/kim-johnson-child-poverty-figures/
title: Labour MP’s child poverty claim uses figures which aren’t comparable - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These two figures are not comparable. The 2.6 million figure refers to the number of children in relative poverty before housing costs in 2009/10, while the 4.2 million figure refers to the number of children in relative poverty after housing costs in 2021/22. Government figures show the number of children in relative poverty both before and after housing costs increased by around 300,000 between 2009/10 and 2021/22.


text: 97% of schools who submitted data had children coming back in early June.
url: https://fullfact.org/education/returning-students/
title: Boris Johnson overstates number of schools with returning students - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. 97% of schools who submitted data were open, but only about two thirds of them had children coming back.


text: We have 100,000 vacancies in our NHS.
claimant: Jonathan Ashworth
claim_date: 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-vacancies/
title: Are there 100,000 vacancies in the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
NHS Improvement says there were 97,000 vacancies in NHS trusts in England between October-December 2017. It’s based on management information and is not an official statistic, so should be treated with some caution. Many of these “vacancies” are currently filled by temporary staff.


claimant: Daniel Hannan
claim_date: 2017-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/are-fewer-parents-smacking-their-children/
title: Are fewer parents smacking their children? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The use of physical forms of punishment against children is falling in almost every Western country, in Scotland and in the rest of the UK.

textual_rating:
The research we’ve seen only covers a limited number of rich countries, but the claim is correct as far as this shows.


text: The UK government will be £290 million a week worse off because of leaving the EU.
claimant: Chris Leslie
claim_date: 2016-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/brexit-means-borrowing/
title: Brexit means... borrowing? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s what the Office for Budget Responsibility expect, but it’s a hugely uncertain figure and relies on assumptions about future immigration, productivity and inflation.


text: 99% of cancer is caused by parabens found in beauty products, skin products and home fragrance.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/parabens-cancer/
title: No evidence that parabens in cosmetics cause 99% of cancers - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This appears to be based on a study which the author said did not show a causal link between parabens and cancer, though some recent evidence has emerged that parabens may increase the growth of a breast-cancer cell line found in women with West African ancestry.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/supreme-court-no-EU-stipend/
review_date: 2019-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nine out of the 11 judges who made the ruling on the suspension of parliament, receive stipends of £175,000+ from the EU.

title:
That claim you’ve seen about Supreme Court judges getting paid £175,000 by the EU is totally made up - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not the case. Two supreme court judges are ad hoc judges for the European Court of Human Rights, which is separate from the EU. Only one of the two has come to the court, and that has only been twice in the last four years. They get paid around £444 per day for this.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccinated-blood-sample/
title: No evidence Covid-19 vaccine makes blood look different - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows two bags of donated blood, one lighter red and one almost black, and says the redder one is from a non-vaccinated person and the darker one is from a vaccinated person.

textual_rating:
NHS Blood and Transplant says it has observed no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated people’s blood.


claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/social-housing-last-30-years/
title: Social housing stock has fallen over the last 30 years - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Social housing has been decreasing over the last 30 years and has now been placed into the private rental market.

textual_rating:
The British social housing sector dramatically decreased between the early 1980s and the early 2010s. This was largely down to the introduction of Right to Buy and a drop in social house building.


text: Red Bull and Monster energy drinks contain bull semen.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/red-bull-semen/
title: Red Bull and Monster don’t contain bull semen - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. They contain taurine, which is present in bull semen, but the drinks use synthetically produced taurine.


text: 76% think the Government are negotiating Brexit badly.
claimant: Leave.EU
claim_date: 2018-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/these-poll-figures-are-leave-voters-not-most-nation/
title: These poll figures are for leave voters - not "most of the nation" - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's of adults in Great Britain voting 'Leave' in the 2016 referendum, according to one survey. Among all adults in Great Britain, it's 75%.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/footage-explosion-maui-chile/
title: Video of explosion is from Chile, not Maui - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
New footage shows what appears to be a beam of light hitting a building and causing an explosion on Maui, Hawaii, ahead of the fires.

textual_rating:
This video was actually taken in a suburb of Santiago, Chile, in May, and shows an exploding transformer.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/hand-sanitiser-fire-NHS/
review_date: 2020-06-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Alcohol-based hand sanitiser can become heated when left in hot cars leading to flammable vapours being released, these can then ignite in normal air conditions and set fire to flammable components in the car.

title:
Alcohol-based hand sanitiser cannot catch fire, without a spark, just because it's in a hot car - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Alcohol-based hand sanitiser cannot catch fire at the temperatures found in cars without a spark.


claimant: People's Chancellor - Economics For The Many
claim_date: 2021-08-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/48-hospitals-new-carlisle/
title: Did Sajid Javid open a ‘new hospital’ in Carlisle? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sajid Javid claimed to be opening one of 48 new hospitals in August 2021, but it was actually a new cancer centre at an existing hospital in the pipeline years before Boris Johnson pledged to build 40 and later 48 new hospitals.

textual_rating:
The new building is on the site of an old part of Carlisle Infirmary, which was planned before Boris Johnson pledged to build 40 new hospitals during the 2019 election.


text: Covid-19 vaccines cause cancer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-epidemic-cancer/
review_date: 2022-10-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There’s no evidence this is true, and the articles pictured don’t suggest this is the case.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Facebook post linking Covid-19 vaccines with report about cancer in the under-50s is misleading - Full Fact


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/hepatitis-liver-damage-children-breastfeeding-vaccine/
title: No evidence hepatitis in children is caused by vaccinated breastfeeding mothers - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The recent rise in cases of hepatitis in children is primarily affecting children aged one month to four years old who have been actively breastfed in the last 12 months. All the children were breastfed by vaccinated mothers.

textual_rating:
Recent child hepatitis cases in England are concentrated in children aged between three and five, and there is no evidence they have been breastfed in the past 12 months by vaccinated mothers. There is no evidence the cases of hepatitis are linked with the Covid-19 vaccines.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/blood-clot-covid-vaccine/
title: Social media post appears to overstate risk of vaccine blood clots - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The risk of a blood clot following a Covid-19 vaccine is worse than the cold or flu symptoms you may experience if infected.

textual_rating:
This overstates the risk of blood clots caused by the vaccine. Furthermore, evidence suggests the risk of clotting and other arterial conditions is much higher following infection than vaccination.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-09-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/acid-cancer-alkaline-diet/
title: This post incorrectly claims everyone with cancer has a pH that is too acidic - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Dr Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize for showing that cancer cannot survive in an alkaline, oxygen-rich environment, but thrives in an acidic, low oxygen environment.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect, he won for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.


text: The US military has found pesticides in Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid19-pesticides-moderna/
title: The US military did not find traces of pesticides in Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim is false and originates from a story on a website which states it posts satirical content.


text: Migration is linked to 82% of population growth (between 2001 and 2016).
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-08-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/population-growth-migration/
title: Is 82% of population growth driven by migration? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
“Linked to” here combines an estimate of both net migration and children born to immigrant parents. This is likely to be on the right scale but too precise a figure, as it rests on a number of assumptions and uncertain data sources.


text: Under the Tories, families are £2,620 worse off.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2022-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/angela-rayner-2620-twitter/
title: Angela Rayner repeats misleading claim that families are £2,620 ‘worse off’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This estimate is based on unreliable assumptions, and excludes the impact of wages and benefits, which are rising overall. Independent estimates suggest the average household will be worse off in 2022/23, but by significantly less than Labour’s figure of £2,620.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2014-05-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/removing-ticks/
title: Don’t use washing up liquid to remove ticks - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A safe, and easy way to remove ticks is to apply a small amount of liquid soap on a cotton ball and blot it onto the tick.

textual_rating:
Although this technique may sometimes work, the NHS recommends an alternative method which could help to reduce the risk of contracting a disease from a tick.


text: Poverty has skyrocketed.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2020-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/poverty-risen-UK/
title: Poverty hasn’t skyrocketed in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. A report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said that overall poverty rates have remained at about 22% over the last 15 years. However, some groups have seen increased rates of poverty, including children and pensioners.


text: A government review warns it is almost as easy to buy some drugs as it is to buy pizza.
claimant: Daily Star
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/easier-to-get-drugs-than-pizza/
title: There’s not enough evidence to say it’s as easy to buy drugs as pizza in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is not enough evidence for this claim, which does not appear in the review itself. The Global Drug Survey compared delivery times of cocaine and pizza internationally in 2018 and found 30% of people could get cocaine in under 30 minutes while only 16.5% of people said they could get a pizza delivered in that time. Figures to make this comparison for the UK aren’t available.


text: Poland has had no terror attacks.
claimant: Maxim Lowe
claim_date: 2019-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/does-polands-migration-policy-explain-its-lack-terror-attacks/
title: Does Poland’s migration policy explain its lack of terror attacks? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Poland had no recorded terror attacks between 2012 and 2015 according to data from the Global Terrorism Database. There have been at least three terror attacks since.


text: The UK Government spent £37 billion on the Test and Trace app.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/test-and-trace-app-37-billion-march-2023/
title: Test and Trace app cost much less than £37 billion - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the total budget for the entire NHS Test and Trace programme in its first two years. The app itself cost around £35 million in the 2020-21 financial year.


text: Shahzada Dawood was vice chairman of the World Economic Forum.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Shahzada-Dawood-WEF-vice-chairman/
title: Titan sub victim was not World Economic Forum vice chairman - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Shahzada Dawood was  neither the vice chairman nor an employee of the WEF. He was the vice chairman of another company, Engro Corporation, that was a partner of the WEF. He also belonged to the forum’s ‘Family Business Community’.


claimant: Len McCluskey
claim_date: 2017-03-30T00:00:00Z
title: Does the Treasury lose £40 billion each year to the super-rich? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Treasury loses £40 billion each year due to tax evasion and avoidance by the super-rich and the corporate elite.

url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/does-treasury-lose-40-billion-each-year-to-super-rich-and-corporate-elite/

textual_rating:
That’s a long way off from HMRC’s estimates, although there’s necessarily a lot of uncertainty here.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/image-does-not-show-woman-about-be-stoned-death-under-sharia-law/
title: This image does not show a woman about to be stoned to death under Sharia law - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows a woman in Iran being fed a spoonful of water before she is stoned to death under Sharia law.

textual_rating:
The picture was taken at a protest in Colombia, where the woman allowed herself to be buried in the ground.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/pictures-dead-teenagers-false/
review_date: 2020-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One picture of a teenage boy has been used to cover the deaths of three teenagers in three different countries

title:
A picture of one boy who died has been mistakenly used to cover stories on the deaths of two other boys - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The screenshots of news stories are real, but some were errors that have been taken out of context. The images were not widely used in the media. The photograph is of deceased Irish teenager Conor Wilmot who died in 2017.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-our-eu-membership-fee/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on our EU membership fee - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The £350 million a week we pay to the EU budget is the same as the cost of building a new NHS hospital every week or hiring 600,000 nurses.

textual_rating:
We send £250 million not £350 million. That could pay for an NHS hospital but at the moment £85 million of it is spent in the UK paying for things like farmers and poorer areas, so we would have to cut that spending first.


claimant: Damian Green
claim_date: 2017-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/could-leaving-european-nuclear-club-put-cancer-patients-risk/
title: Could leaving the European nuclear club put cancer patients at risk? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Leaving Euratom will not affect the UK’s ability to import medical radioisotopes - which are used to diagnose and treat certain kinds of cancer.

textual_rating:
This isn’t certain, and will depend on what future arrangements are negotiated. The UK may find it harder to guarantee a supply after leaving.


text: There’s a £2.5 billion shortfall in social care funding.
claimant: Tim Farron
claim_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/shortfall-social-care-funding/
title: A £2.5 billion shortfall in social care funding? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Local Government Association estimates a £2.6 billion gap in funding for adult social care by 2020. Other experts agree there’s a gap.


text: Phase three trials for Covid-19 vaccines haven’t been done.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-video-covid-vaccine/
title: Influencer video full of untrue vaccine claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is untrue. Analyses of data from phase three trials for all three Covid-19 vaccines (Pfizer/BioNTech, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Moderna)  authorised for use in the UK have been published in peer-reviewed studies in medical journals.


text: Hand sanitiser is toxic.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-can-be-fatal-underlying-cause-of-death/
title: Covid-19 can be fatal and tests for it aren’t rigged - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Hand sanitiser shouldn’t be ingested or used incorrectly. However, when used appropriately, it is not poisonous.


claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/abortions-court-northern-ireland/
title: Abortions in court in Northern Ireland - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. The case is now being appealed to the Supreme Court.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The High Court ruled that Northern Ireland’s abortion law was contrary to international human rights law, though this has since been successfully appealed.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/94-per-cent-vaccinated-deaths-covid/
title: Vaccinated people are not more likely to die of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK government has quietly published a report confirming the vaccinated account for 94% of all Covid-19 deaths since April.

textual_rating:
Of all Covid-19 deaths in England in April and May, 94% were among people who were vaccinated. This is to be expected, as vaccine uptake in vulnerable groups has been so high. It does not mean the vaccines are ineffective or unsafe. In fact, the same data shows that, adjusting for age, vaccinated people are less likely to die of Covid.


text: Labour have committed to hire 10,000 police officers at a cost of £3 billion.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2019-10-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/labour-conservative-police-recruitment/
title: Don’t compare Labour and Conservative costings for police recruitment - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Labour costed this at £770 million over five years in 2017, though this only covers police salaries and so the actual cost of recruitment would be higher.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/eu-prisoners/
title: 4,000 EU prisoners in England and Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Taxpayers faced a bill of more than £140 million last year for criminals from other EU countries in British jails.

textual_rating:
This is based on the average yearly cost per prisoner in England and Wales, and the number of prisoners from other EU countries in prison in England and Wales at the end of December 2017. The estimate is very rough and spending on prisoners can vary depending on the prison they’re in.


text: Council homes are being sold off without being replaced.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/council-house-replacements/
title: Council house replacements - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Only one in six council houses sold under Right to Buy are being replaced. Overall there are fewer homes available for “social rent” or equivalent in the social housing sector. There are increasing numbers available for higher “affordable rents”.


text: While Boris Johnson was mayor of London, crime fell by 20%.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/boris-johnson-mayor-crime/
title: Did crime fall while Boris Johnson was Mayor of London? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a fair estimate using the best available data. The crime rate fell by 23% between 2007/08 and 2015/16, though this only looks at crime recorded by the police and there are other caveats to this data.


text: A picture shows the aftermath of climate strikers in Hyde Park in London on 20 September.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/photo-hyde-park-not-climate-strike/
title: This old photo of rubbish in Hyde Park isn’t from a climate protest - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The picture shows litter left following an event in Hyde Park in April 2019 promoting the legalisation of cannabis use.


text: MPs get free holidays.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-free-housing-alcohol/
title: What can MPs claim on expenses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs do not receive publicly funded holidays, but can receive hospitality from other organisations and foreign governments.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/macron-uk-eu/
title: Emmanuel Macron hasn’t said the UK must join the Euro if it wants to remain in the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Emmanuel Macron said the UK must pay in full the costs involved for all other member states for Brexit, currently 39 billion euros if it wants to remain in the EU.

textual_rating:
He hasn’t said this. Under the terms of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, we’ll pay the EU an estimated £39 billion “divorce bill” for outstanding commitments and liabilities. If we remain in the EU, we would pay our membership fee each year which would cover all these things.


claimant: Afua Hirsch
claim_date: 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/sexual-harassment-workplace/
title: Sexual harassment in the workplace - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One third of women in the UK report having been harassed in the workplace and 70% said they didn’t feel able to report it.

textual_rating:
It’s difficult to put a figure on this because of differing definitions of harassment. The one third figure comes from a survey that isn’t necessarily representative of adults across the UK, and is about in the middle compared to other survey estimates we’ve seen.


claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2020-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-quarantine-penalise-employees/
title: It’s not true that employees who have to quarantine cannot be ‘penalised’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Employers cannot penalise workers who are following the law by quarantining after returning to the UK from abroad.

textual_rating:
This is not correct. Employers can take action against employees, if they choose, including deducting pay.


text: A graphic shows current electricity prices in the UK and Europe.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/uk-europe-electricity-prices-august-2022/
title: Out-of-date map showing high GB electricity prices compared to Europe re-emerges - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The graphic is from September 2021, and is not an accurate reflection of current electricity prices.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mariupol-concert/
title: Mariupol concert footage doesn’t prove Ukraine isn’t a warzone - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video showing a concert in Mariupol, Ukraine which is supposed to be a warzone shows that something doesn’t add up.

textual_rating:
Russian forces took over Mariupol in May 2022 after months of fighting, and the concert in the video was in Mariupol in July. By many accounts, Mariupol is still having issues with water supply, healthcare and destroyed buildings.


text: MPs get free alcohol.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-free-housing-alcohol/
title: What can MPs claim on expenses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs cannot claim expenses for alcohol but can drink in parliamentary bars and restaurants which are effectively subsidised with public money.


text: British old age pensioners get a weekly spouse allowance of £25 a week.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-benefits/
title: Viral image about pensioners and refugees is wrong on every single number - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A state pensioner may get an “Adult Dependency Increase” worth up to £68.35 a week if they have a partner who is financially dependent on them. They must have claimed before 2010 and it will no longer be paid from April 2020.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-boris-johnsons-brexit-deal/
title: We fact checked this viral image on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the new withdrawal agreement, Boris Johnson agreed to a 'level playing field' meaning the UK will follow many EU laws making us uncompetitive and restricting our future trade.

textual_rating:
The level playing field is in the political declaration part of the deal which isn’t legally binding, and the UK hasn’t yet made firm or specific commitments to following EU standards. Northern Ireland will remain aligned to some EU single market rules.


text: A Facebook user needs help to identify a man found unconscious and unresponsive in the street.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/unconscious-man-hospitalised-motorbike/
title: Post seeking help to identify unconscious man in hospital is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Posts with similar wording use different pictures of unconscious men and report them being found in locations known to be false. All their identities are known.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/airbag-feet-dashboard/
review_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Car accident victims who had their feet on the dashboard have suffered serious facial injuries.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you are in a car accident when you have your feet on the dashboard, you may send your knees through your eye sockets if the airbag is deployed.

title:
You are at risk of serious facial injuries if your feet are on the dashboard during a car crash - Full Fact


text: Inflation is not falling at the rate needed to halve inflation this year.
claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/halving-inflation-target/
title: Will the government meet its inflation pledge? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government has not confirmed the exact starting point for the pledge to halve inflation, but based on the latest data available at the time the Prime Minister made this pledge, inflation would need to fall to about 5.3% by the end of the year. As of June 2023, inflation stood at 7.9%, with the Bank of England saying it expects it to reach 4.9% by the end of the year.


text: 21 people were dying daily of Covid-19 in October in England.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/uk-column-covid-deaths/
title: A comparison of daily deaths from Covid-19 and non-Covid causes is incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. At the time the claim was made, the number of deaths reported of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 and died within 28 days was 169.


text: A service run by Samaritans provides mental health support via text message.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/samaritans-text-message-service/
title: Samaritans no longer operates a text-based support service - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is no longer true. Although Samaritans did previously have a text service, this was shut down in February 2020. Mental health support by text is available from another charity, SHOUT.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2018-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/roaming-fees-brexit/
title: Mobile roaming fees could be back after Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Mobile roaming fees could return for Brits in the EU after Brexit after Theresa May confirms exit from bloc’s digital market.

textual_rating:
Correct. EU regulations mean we can’t currently be charged roaming fees within the EU. After Brexit, we'll no longer be subject to these regulations. It’s unclear if UK mobile companies will bring back roaming charges, nor if a UK-EU roaming regulation agreement can be reached.


text: There are more GPs in the NHS today than in 2015.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2019-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-numbers-or-down/
title: GP numbers: up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct looking at the headcount of GPs (excluding locums) in England between September 2015 and 2018. Looking at the full-time equivalent number of this group, which gives a better idea of staffing levels, the numbers are falling.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/net-zero-2099/
review_date: 2020-02-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Despite pledging to meet net zero emissions by 2050, on current track the government will only meet their target by 2099.

title:
There’s not enough evidence to say the net zero emissions target will be missed by 49 years - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Labour’s analysis is based on unfounded assumptions and the claim can’t be proved. That said, there is evidence the government is not on track to hit net zero by 2050.


text: NHS staff will get a pay rise of between 6.5% and 29%.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2018-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-pay-whats-deal/
title: NHS pay: what’s the deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Pay will rise for some staff by between 4.5% and 29% over the next three years. This includes the increases in salaries staff will get by progressing through their pay band over time, and pay rises would still occur without a new deal. It doesn’t cover doctors, dentists, or very senior managers.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/judge-offered-to-pay-fine/
review_date: 2019-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Judge Jonathan Durham Hall refused to jail a 15 year-old girl that stabbed a paedophile with a kitchen knife who had been abusing her since she was eight. The charge was grievous bodily harm with intent. He fined the girl then offered to pay the fine for her.

title:
A judge did say he would pay a teenage girl’s victim surcharge after she stabbed the man who had sexually assaulted her - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Mostly correct. The girl stabbed a man who had sexually assaulted her when she was eight. The judge did give her a two year youth rehabilitation order, but told her that he would pay the victim surcharge himself if she was ordered to.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wef-eat-bugs-racist-tweet/
title: The World Economic Forum didn’t say it’s racist to not want to eat bugs - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Economic Forum published a tweet and article asking “is it racist to not want to transition to a bug-based diet?”

textual_rating:
There is no evidence the World Economic Forum ever published such an article, and the screenshot appears to have been digitally manipulated.


claimant: Elizabeth Truss, Environment Secretary
claim_date: 2015-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/flood-defences-whats-happening-funding/
title: Flood defences: what's happening to funding? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Government investment in flood defences will be £2.3 billion in the next six years, higher than in previous parliaments.

textual_rating:
Over the next <I>five</I> years capital spending on flood defences will be £1.9 billion, which is a fairer way to compare spending with previous parliaments. Either way, it's an above-inflation increase compared to the previous two parliaments.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/platinum-jubilee-cost/
title: The Platinum Jubilee will not cost each UK household £38,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If the estimated £1 billion being spent on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee was divided among UK households, it would mean a windfall for each household of £38,000.

textual_rating:
The maths here is wrong—dividing £1 billion by the number of UK households would give a figure close to £38 rather than £38,000. And if the £1 billion figure refers to the cost to taxpayers it’s likely a significant overestimate, though we don’t yet have reliable figures for the total cost of the event.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/strep-a-nasal-flu-vaccine-study/
title: Study didn’t link children’s flu vaccine to strep A infections - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A study published in 2014 showed a connection between children’s nasal flu vaccines and strep A infections.

textual_rating:
The study, which was carried out in mice, looked at streptococcus pneumoniae, not strep A. It also found that nasal flu vaccines did not increase the risk of severe infections.


claimant: Department for Work and Pensions
claim_date: 2015-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/dwp-reviewing-link-between-suicides-and-welfare-reform/
title: Is the DWP reviewing a link between suicides and welfare reform? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-05-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Department for Work and Pensions is or isn't carrying out a review of 60 suicides linked to benefits.

textual_rating:
The DWP has carried out internal 'Peer Reviews' in 40 individual cases since February 2012 after the suicide or apparent suicide of a customer.


claimant: Philip Hammond
claim_date: 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/84bn-spent-NHS/
title: Is £84 billion being spent on the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has announced an unprecedented £84 billion real-terms increase in funding for the NHS.

textual_rating:
The increase is £20.5 billion in real-terms for the NHS in England between 2018/19 and 2023/24. There is a way of calculating the figures that gets £84 billion, but it’s unhelpful and contains some potentially misleading figures.


text: More people are being caught carrying blades.
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-more-people-being-prosecuted-carrying-knives/
title: Are more people being prosecuted for carrying knives? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The number of offences involving possession of article with blade or point has been increasing in England and Wales since 2013/14.


text: The number of drug-related deaths is the highest it’s ever been in this country since the 90s.
claimant: Jonathan Ashworth
claim_date: 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/drug-poisoning-deaths-are-highest-theyve-been-25-years/
title: Drug poisoning deaths are the highest they’ve been in 25 years - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The number of drug poisoning deaths registered in 2016 was the highest since comparable records began in 1993. This includes deaths involving both legal and illegal substances, drug misuse and suicides.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/thrombosis-covid-19/
title: This post about Covid-19 and blood clotting conditions contains inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 patients have been misdiagnosed as having pneumonia when they actually have a blood clotting condition called disseminated intravascular coagulation.

textual_rating:
It is incorrect to say that Covid-19 patients have been misdiagnosed with pneumonia when they have disseminated intravascular coagulation. Severe Covid-19 can cause pneumonia as well as blood clotting problems.


text: For every three victims of domestic abuse, two will be female, one will be male.
claimant: Mankind Initiative
claim_date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-third-domestic-abuse-victims-men/
title: Are a third of domestic abuse victims men? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Of those aged 16-74 who told the Crime Survey for England and Wales that they had experienced some form of domestic abuse since they were 16, a third were male and two thirds were female.


text: More people from deprived backgrounds are going to university than ever before.
claimant: Bernard Jenkin
claim_date: 2017-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/social-mobility-and-universities/
title: Social mobility and universities - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. In 2016 the proportion of 18 year-olds living in the most disadvantaged areas going to university was the highest on record for England, Scotland and Wales. It’s the second highest level it has ever been in Northern Ireland.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/Blood-Donations-Manchester/
review_date: 2020-04-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Anyone in Manchester with blood group O negative should go to the Royal Infirmary as they have run out of blood.

title:
The NHS is not asking people with type O negative blood to go to donate at Manchester Royal Infirmary - Full Fact


text: Only 5% of Northern Ireland’s GDP goes to Ireland.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2018-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/irish-border-trade-checks/
title: Irish border: how much trade? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Roughly correct in terms of goods exports. But goods exports are not normally measured as a percentage of GDP. 33% of Northern Ireland’s goods exports went to the Republic in 2016.


text: The cost of the UK Test and Trace system has been £32 billion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/germany-has-spent-far-more-than-48m-on-test-and-trace/
title: Germany has spent far more than £48m on test and trace - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The budget for the first two years of NHS Test and Trace is £37 billion. Spending up to the beginning of April 2021 is estimated at around £20 billion, but we don’t have clear figures yet.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/EU-rwanda-flight-court/
title: EU court didn’t prevent Rwanda flight from taking off - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government’s first flight to deport people to Rwanda to have their asylum applications processed there was blocked by the EU.

textual_rating:
The flight didn’t go ahead because of an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution.


text: Lord Kerr, who sits on the UK Supreme Court, wrote Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.
claimant: David Campbell Bannerman
claim_date: 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/to-kerr-is-human/
title: The Lord Kerr who wrote Article 50 isn’t the Lord Kerr who sits on the Supreme Court - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Wrong. There are two Lord Kerrs. John Kerr, who was one of the authors of Article 50, does not sit on the Supreme Court. That’s Brian Kerr.


text: 800,000 people pay a higher tax rate than someone who earns £1m.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2017-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-you-pay-higher-tax-rate-millionaire/
title: Do you pay a higher tax rate than a millionaire? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some people do pay higher tax rates than those earning £1m, but only when their income rises between certain amounts. The estimate of 800,000 people affected only applies to relatively high earners, but marginal tax rates affect low earners too.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/irish-examiner-referee-whistle-heart-problems/
title: Article claiming link between referee whistles and heart problems in athletes is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An Irish Examiner headline claims experts say referee whistles may be to blame for “sudden heart problems” in sports players.

textual_rating:
The Irish Examiner has never published such an article, and there is no credible evidence of an expert describing a link between referee whistles and heart problems in athletes.


text: The number of people entering teacher training has increased in the last year.
claimant: Department for Education spokesperson
claim_date: 2015-11-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-we-recruiting-enough-trainee-teachers/
title: Are we recruiting enough trainee teachers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of people entering postgraduate teacher training increased in the last year, but is below target. The overall number of people entering at undergraduate and postgraduate level has fallen.


text: There are half a million more children in poverty since 2010.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/child-poverty-trends-since-2010/
title: No single figure about child poverty tells the whole story - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is what’s estimated to have happened to children in relative low income households, comparing 2010/11 to 2017/18. But this is one measure of several and the alternatives show smaller increases or even slight falls.


text: You cannot catch Covid-19 from touching surfaces.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mask-graphic-wrong/
title: Mask graphic contains a number of inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Respiratory droplets can land on surfaces and the virus in these droplets have been shown to remain viable for up to 72 hours on some surfaces.


text: The mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are experimental.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-QA-graphic/
title: Inaccurate Covid vaccine ‘Q&A’: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The mRNA vaccines have been tested for safety and effectiveness like any other vaccine. While this is the first time mRNA vaccines have become available to the public, they have been researched for many years.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italy-protest-eu-flag/
title: Video of Italian protesters removing European flag from building is from 2013 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The video was actually filmed in 2013, and isn’t related to the recent general election in Italy.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A recent video of protests in Italy shows someone scaling the front of a building and removing the European flag hanging from it.


claimant: Maria Caulfield
claim_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maria-caulfield-ambulance-support-contract-heatwave/
review_date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has procured a contract worth £30 million to provide surge capacity for the ambulance service during periods of increased pressure, and that “is there, should we need it”.

title:
Health minister claims contract yet to be awarded has been ‘procured’—then denies she said it - Full Fact

textual_rating:
NHS England says this contract hasn’t been awarded yet. Since we first published this fact check, health minister Maria Caulfield has clarified that “we have procured a contract which is just being finalised”.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/governments-10-billion-nhs-funding-commitment-what-nhs-leaders-asked/
title: Is the government’s £10bn NHS funding commitment more than NHS leaders asked for? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservative government is investing an extra £10 billion in the NHS, more than its leaders asked for.

textual_rating:
The government’s £10 billion commitment isn’t all of what NHS leaders asked for, and isn’t as generous as it sounds.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-baby-deer-hoax/
title: ‘Missing’ child appeal featuring boy with a baby deer is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A four-year-old called Jack Graham, pictured in a photo with a fawn, has gone missing and is believed to be in need of medical attention.

textual_rating:
This appeal is a hoax. The picture is a photo of a child who befriended a deer during a holiday in Virginia in the US, which went viral in 2021.


text: After paying National Insurance for 35 years, UK pensioners receive £6,800 a year.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pension-illegal-immigrants-benefits-comparison/
title: ‘Illegal immigrants’ don’t get an average £26,000 a year in benefits - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is inaccurate. While the amount pensioners receive in state pension varies depending on age and National Insurance record, the full new state pension is £10,600 per year, while the full basic state pension is £8,122 per year.


text: 40 million people in the UK live in fuel and food poverty.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/40-million-food-fuel-poverty/
title: Claims of ‘40 million in fuel and food poverty’ are too high - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This number is too high. About 10 million people in the UK live in households reporting recent experience of food insecurity. Some estimates suggest that about six million people may be fuel poor. Many people may be in both groups.


text: The SNP does not house refugees in Scotland.
claimant: Robert Jenrick
claim_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/Scotland-does-house-refugees/
title: Immigration minister’s claims about refugees in Scotland need clarification - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If this refers to the number of refugees housed in Scotland, then we don’t have location data for many refugees who have been resettled in the UK. The limited data we do have shows that since 2014, Scotland has resettled at least 3,854 refugees.


text: Mark Carney said there would be a recession in the case of a vote in favour of Brexit.
claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/has-there-been-recession-eu-referendum/
title: Has there been a recession since the EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
He said before the referendum vote that it was a possibility. He expected a “material slowing in growth”, and that a recession was one of “a range of possible scenarios”.


text: This year alone, MPs have cost the British taxpayer £92,993,748 in expenses.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/false-claims-about-mps/
title: This post about MPs is untrue and around 20 years old - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. In 2017/18 MPs’ expenses totalled £35 million. The total cost of MPs’ and MPs’ staff pay and expenses that year came to £182 million.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2022-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/road-fuel-prices-crude-oil-retailers/
title: Why is petrol more expensive now than it was 15 years ago? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Oil is $110 a barrel and petrol can cost £1.70 per litre. In 2008 oil was $140 a barrel but petrol was only £1.04 a litre.

textual_rating:
The oil prices are correct as of July 2008 and early March 2022. The current petrol price figure is broadly accurate, but the figure given for 2008 is around 15p lower than the price of petrol actually was when oil reached $140 a barrel.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-free-bus-travel-save-young-people-1000-year/
title: Would free bus travel save young people £1,000 a year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since the Conservatives came to power, the number of bus trips taken by young people has declined by 40%.

textual_rating:
Correct for 21 to 29 year-olds. According to the National Travel Survey, the number of bus journeys taken by people in England between 21 and 29 dropped by 40% between 2010 and 2016.


text: Government asset sales are a form of saving.
claimant: George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer
claim_date: 2015-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-asset-sales-save-government-money/
title: Do asset sales save the government money? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While asset sales can reduce the reported deficit in the short run, they won't have a significant effect in the longer term: the government can only sell an asset once.


text: Over 55,000 deaths have been caused by the Covid-19 vaccines.
claimant: Dolores Cahill
claim_date: 2021-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/miscarriage-deaths-vaccines/
title: Miscarriage does not occur in 90% of vaccinated pregnant women - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There seems to be no evidence for this claim, and reports of adverse events from the Yellow Card Scheme and VAERS make clear that reported reactions are not necessarily the result of the vaccine.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/no-source-yet-6bn-cost-bed-blocking-claim/
title: No source yet for £6bn cost of 'bed blocking' claim - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Over 6,000 elderly people a month are kept in hospital beds in England when they are fit to discharge and it costs the NHS £6 billion a year.

textual_rating:
6,000 was the number of people of all ages fit to discharge and still in hospital on one day in June. There were over 170,000 delayed bed days over the month, these are the number of full days each bed could have been used by another patient. The estimates for how much this costs vary, but none seem to be higher than £900 million a year.


text: Having 10 or more sexual partners increases cancer risk by 90% for women and 69% for men.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sex-cancer-risk/
review_date: 2020-02-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence that having 10 or more sexual partners causes cancer in men or women.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Women who have had 10 or more sexual partners do not double their risk of getting cancer - Full Fact


text: Deaths have risen in the UK since 2011.
claimant: Office for National Statistics
claim_date: 2020-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/deaths-in-the-UK-graph/
title: UK death rates have stayed the same since 2011 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, but after accounting for the changing size and age structure of the UK, rates of death have stayed about the same since 2011. This represents a stalling of death rates following decades of falling death rates.


text: The BBC altered the headline on the front page of a Scottish newspaper.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/the-bbc-didnt-edit-the-headline-of-a-scottish-newspaper/
title: The BBC didn’t edit the headline of a Scottish newspaper - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The Herald changed its front page headline. The BBC first reported the original headline and later reported the changed headline.


claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2018-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-public-want-railways-renationalised/
title: Do the public want the railways renationalised? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An overwhelming majority of the public would support renationalising the railways, according to a poll.

textual_rating:
64% of the 1,500 adults polled in June 2018 said they would support renationalising the railways. 19% said they would oppose it, and 17% said they didn’t know. The results are similar to other polls done on the question.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boots-lateral-flow-tests/
title: Boots isn’t selling lateral flow tests ‘the taxpayer has already paid for’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The CEO of Boots is pictured in the Bullingdon Club photograph featuring David Cameron and Boris Johnson.

textual_rating:
Sebastian James, the senior vice president and managing director of Boots, is reportedly in this photograph.


text: Scotland Yard has logged 22,025 motorcycle muggings in 12 months – a rise of 50 per cent.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2018-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/moped-crime-rising-london/
title: Is moped crime rising in London? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Metropolitan Police have recorded 22,025 crimes enabled by scooters, mopeds and motorcycles from June 2017 to May 2018, 50% more than the same period in 2016/17, but this does mask a recent falling trend month-by-month.


text: The NHS Covid-19 vaccination card will be used to prove who has been vaccinated.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid19-vaccination-card/
title: The new vaccination card is not a ‘Covid passport’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The card contains a record of someone’s vaccination and a reminder of their second appointment date, but it does not contain secure personal information so it cannot prove who was vaccinated.


text: Research finds short term breaks from school are harmful to pupil attainment.
claimant: Nicky Morgan
claim_date: 2015-02-22T00:00:00Z
title: Research doesn't prove short breaks from school cause poorer pupil attainment - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/research-doesnt-prove-short-breaks-school-cause-poorer-pupil-attainment/

textual_rating:
The research doesn't prove that holidays cause poorer attainment, only that pupils with higher rates of absence overall perform less well.


claimant: Renegade Tribune
claim_date: 2019-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/holocaust-death-toll/
title: Red Cross documents do not undermine official Holocaust death toll - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Official International Red Cross records reveal the actual Concentration Camp total death during World War II toll was 271,301.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The documents managed by the International Committee of the Red Cross only recorded a fraction of the Holocaust death count. They do not in any way dispute the official death toll of six million.


text: In 2013, US children got 46 vaccines and the autism rate was 1 in 88.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccines-dont-cause-autism/
review_date: 2019-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
US children were recommended to get around 13 vaccines, which involved about 53 doses, in 2013. In 2012, 1 in 69 were estimated to have autism disorders and in 2014, it was 1 in 59 (we found no figures for 2013).


text: A boy with autism named Brayden and his dog are missing in Derbyshire.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-autistic-boy-brayden/
title: Facebook post about missing autistic boy and his dog is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a false appeal. The boy in the picture is called Kai and lives in Florida. Derbyshire police have previously warned people not to share posts like this one.


text: A man called Christopher M. Adair has gone missing after leaving for a walk and not coming back.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-grandfather-Facebook-posts/
title: Hoax posts about missing grandfather circulating on local Facebook groups - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Several versions of this post, using the same name and image, are circulating on local Facebook groups. The man in the image is not called Christopher Adair and passed away earlier this year.


text: The government invested an extra £34 billion in the NHS, which was a record increase.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/
title: Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the cash value of the announced increase between 2018/19 and 2023/24, but the real-terms value, which includes the effects of inflation, was £20.5 billion. There was an increase at least this large between 2004/5 and 2009/10.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cancer-act-1939-cure/
title: 1939 Cancer Act doesn’t criminalise discussion of cancer ‘cures’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Cancer Act 1939 stops people from discussing cancer treatments that aren’t chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery.

textual_rating:
There is no law in the UK that limits cancer treatments to these three options, and the law only stops people advertising cures to the public, not discussing them.


text: There are more than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the UK.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sex-offenders-registry/
title: There are far fewer than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. A Freedom of Information request, published in May 2021, showed there were 95,844 people on the sex offenders register in England and Wales.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Amazon-prime-subscription-changes/
title: You can still pay for Amazon Prime on a monthly basis - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Amazon Prime UK members can still pay a monthly subscription fee of £8.99.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Amazon is automatically moving Prime members to an annual subscription of £95, and won’t have a monthly option after December.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-data-covid-vaccine-side-effects/
title: False US military health data misrepresented as NHS figures - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The figures published in the social media post are based on false US military data, not NHS data.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Incidences of heart attacks, Bell’s palsy, congenital malformations, female infertility, pulmonary embolisms, neurological abnormalities and cancers have increased dramatically, according to NHS data.


claimant: gov.uk
claim_date: 2022-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/how-to-cast-local-election-vote-england-wales/
title: Some voting in local elections can pick more than one candidate - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Local government councillors in England and Wales are elected using the First Past the Post system. You vote for one candidate in your local area and the candidate with the most votes wins.

textual_rating:
This is not right, and has now been corrected on Gov.uk. While the system is First Past the Post, you vote for as many candidates as there are councillor vacancies, which can be more than one.


text: Over 2.5 million people now officially live in energy poverty.
claimant: Wear Red
claim_date: 2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/government-hasnt-u-turned-energy-price-caps/
title: The government hasn’t u-turned on energy price caps - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is an underestimate: almost 3.7 million households may be living in some form of fuel poverty across the UK, although the data is not directly comparable due to differences in how it is measured.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/ulez-lez-schemes/
title: London’s Low Emission Zone and Ultra Low Emission Zone are two separate schemes - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Low Emission Zone initially only covered central London and the area of the congestion zone, and became known as ULEZ in April 2019.

textual_rating:
The Low Emission Zone has covered most of Greater London since it was first introduced, and is a separate scheme to the Ultra Low Emission Zone.


text: The coronavirus vaccines have been produced too quickly to be safe.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/antivax-video-march-2021/
title: Social media video makes false claims about Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The vaccines in use have all passed multiple stages of animal and human trials and been shown to be safe and effective.


text: A no deal Brexit means no more ECJ or ECHR.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s correct that no deal would remove the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. But it’s incorrect to say it would remove the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (which has nothing to do with the EU).


claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/renewable-windfall-tax-energy/
title: Is government plan to cap revenues of renewable electricity generators a windfall tax? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government’s new policy proposal to limit renewable electricity generator profits isn’t a windfall tax.

textual_rating:
There are some differences between the government's new policy proposal and a traditional windfall tax, such as the way it is levied. However, economists told Full Fact that, in practice, the new policy does achieve the same aims as a windfall tax.


text: Boris Johnson will receive a £115,000-a-year pension for life.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-public-duty-cost-allowance/
title: Boris Johnson is not entitled to a ‘£115,000 pension’ as a former Prime Minister - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Former prime ministers can claim a maximum of £115,000 a year for expenses incurred while fulfilling public duties associated with being a former prime minister. It’s not correct to describe this as a pension.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-ingredients/
title: This image about vaccine ingredients is extremely misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Polysorbate 80 and 20 are in vaccines and cause cancer in animals and are linked to autoimmune issues and infertility.

textual_rating:
Tiny amounts of Polysorbate 80 is in a type of flu vaccine. There isn’t evidence ingesting it is linked to these issues in humans.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/police-officer-uplift-numbers/
title: Government claims on police officer numbers don’t tell the whole story - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has reached its target of recruiting 20,000 more police officers in England and Wales.

textual_rating:
This is correct, based on the increase between 2019 and March 2023. But the rise follows a fall in the number of police officers in the years prior to 2017, and there are currently only around 3,500 more officers than in 2010.


text: Sadiq Khan was the consultant lawyer for the captured 9/11 Al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sadiq-khan-zacarias-moussaoui/
review_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Sadiq Khan’s former law firm did consult on the defence of someone convicted in relation to 9/11 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Sadiq Khan did consult for the defence of Zacarias Moussaoui, although Mr Khan never represented the man in court and has never met him.


text: Monsanto just lost in court.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-vaccines/
title: Most of these claims about glyphosate, vaccines and cancer are misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. US agricultural company Monsanto has lost three court cases in the last year linking the chemical glyphosate in its Roundup weed killer to cancer cases.


claimant: Instagram account
claim_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sunglasses-sunburn-melanin/
title: Sunglasses don’t cause sunburn - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Sunglasses prevent melanin production, which reduces vitamin D production, increasing the risk of sunburn.

textual_rating:
Melanin production is stimulated by sunlight hitting cells in the skin–covering the eyes does not stop this. Melanin reduces vitamin D synthesis.


text: Labour pledged to scrap all controls on immigration
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2019-09-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/labour-immigration-policy/
title: Labour didn’t vote to scrap all immigration controls - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Labour passed a motion at its party conference to extend free movement and ruling out certain forms of immigration systems. This doesn’t mean scrapping all immigration controls.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nivea-suncreen-almond-oil-packaging/
title: Nivea sunscreen does include ‘almond oil’ as an ingredient on the label - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Nivea sunscreen product for children does not include almond oil as an ingredient labelled on its package.

textual_rating:
Almond oil was previously listed only under its scientific name but the labels have been amended so that it appears twice under both its common and scientific name.


claimant: Dr Iain McGill
claim_date: 2021-08-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/geronimo-alpaca-tb/
title: Why it’s unlikely Geronimo the alpaca’s TB test gave a false positive - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This seems very unlikely.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Bovine TB blood tests can give a false positive result if the animal has previously been tested with a skin test.


text: The estimated cost of Brexit is £4.15 per person per day.
claimant: Best for Britain
claim_date: 2019-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-brexit-costs-post-wrong/
title: This viral post about the costs of Brexit gets a lot of things wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems to be based on an estimate of how much lower UK GDP could be in 2030, compared to if we remained in the EU. This is a hypothetical model for comparing possible paths: it cannot be used to accurately predict the size of the economy in 2030, or to translate the “cost" of Brexit into a definitive cash sum.


text: William Wilberforce, the MP who campaigned to abolish slavery, was a Tory.
claimant: James Cleverly
claim_date: 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/william-wilberforce-tory/
title: Was William Wilberforce a Tory? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Wilberforce was an independent MP, though he was fairly loyal to the Tory Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger.


text: No “healthy” children have died of Covid-19.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-deaths-children/
title: No evidence Covid-19 vaccines have killed thousands of children - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. For example, one study found that in England up to February 2021, six children who did not have any pre-existing health conditions had died of Covid-19.


text: There are 11,000 fewer firefighters in England than there were in 2010.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/whats-happened-fire-services-2010/
title: What’s happened to fire services since 2010? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure seems to refer to the reduction in all staff working for fire and rescue services in England. There are 6,800 fewer firefighters in England than there were in 2010.


text: Junior doctors are paid the equivalent of 10 tins of Heinz Beanz an hour.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/baked-beans-junior-doctors-pay/
title: Comparison of junior doctors’ pay with baked beans prices lacks context - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The basic pay of the most junior 11% of junior doctors is currently £14.09 an hour, which is roughly equivalent to 10 tins of Heinz Beanz. Most junior doctors are paid significantly more, even if you only consider basic pay. Many, including some of the most junior doctors, also earn extra money on top of their basic hourly rate.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flavonoid-research/
title: Reported study doesn’t talk about Alzheimer’s - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This research did not assess the risk of developing Alzheimer’s.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Eating plenty of colourful foods could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease according to research.


text: Addicts and alcoholics cost the public £10 billion a year.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/ask-full-fact-do-addicts-and-alcoholics-cost-taxpayer-10-billion-year/
title: Ask Full Fact: Do addicts and alcoholics cost the taxpayer £10 billion a year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research estimated that public expenditure on people who are homeless, offenders, and/or drug misusers is roughly £10 billion a year in England. So it's not just an estimate of the cost of alcohol and drug addiction. The research describes that estimate as "indicative and not definitive", and says it's likely to be a conservative estimate.


claimant: New Statesman
claim_date: 2018-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/child-poverty-increasing-and-decreasing-same-timeheres-why/
title: Child poverty is increasing and decreasing at the same time—here’s why - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Relative child poverty has increased for three consecutive years and now stands at 4.1 million, or 30% of children.

textual_rating:
Correct, looking at relative poverty after housing costs. Over the long term, absolute child poverty in the UK is down while relative child poverty is stable, after housing costs.


text: The largest peacetime investment in public services happened between 1997 and 2010.
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-inequality-1997-2010/
title: Labour's record on inequality and social mobility: 1997 to 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Total government spending as a share of the economy increased by 9.6 percentage points, a record compared to any other 13 year period since 1955 (the earliest we have data for).


text: Vaccines don’t stop you getting Covid-19 or spreading it.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-infection-illness/
title: There is evidence vaccines reduce risk of Covid-19 illness - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines reduce your chances of getting sick with Covid-19. There’s some limited evidence the Pfizer vaccine may stop you being infected with Covid-19 at all.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
title: Number of death certificates with only Covid-19 is a bad estimate of the death toll - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Broadly correct. The true figure is 149,989.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
To the end of 2021, there have been 156,924 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test in the UK.

url:
https://fullfact.org/health/number-of-death-certificates-with-only-covid-19-is-a-bad-estimate-of-the-death-toll/


text: Under the Geneva Convention refugees should seek refuge in the first safe country they come to.
claimant: Suzanne Evans
claim_date: 2019-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/refugees-first-safe-country/
title: Do refugees have to stay in the first safe country they reach? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The UN Refugee Convention does not make this requirement of refugees, and UK case law supports this interpretation.  Refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in the UK after passing through other “safe” countries.


text: Covid-19 does not kill 99.99% of us.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine-safety-death-rate/
title: Baseless claims about vaccine safety go viral on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. It is estimated that Covid-19 has a fatality rate of around 0.5%-1% globally, though could be slightly higher in countries with older populations.


text: A £20 billion funding increase to the NHS will be paid for in part through the ‘Brexit dividend’.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/does-brexit-dividend-exist/
title: Does the ‘Brexit dividend’ exist? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no guaranteed extra money to pay for increased NHS funding from stopping our payments to the EU budget. Other costs associated with Brexit are expected to outweigh the savings.


claimant: Esther McVey
claim_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/foreign-aid-st-helena-airport/
title: Was foreign aid money spent on an airport that doesn’t run flights? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Airports have been built with foreign aid money where planes can’t take off and land because of winds.

textual_rating:
St Helena airport, which was built with £285 million of foreign aid, was unable to run commercial flights when it first opened due to wind shear on the island. But since October 2017 it has run commercial flights.


text: EU regulation means kipper sellers must package their kippers in ice.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/boris-johnsons-kipper-claim-red-herring/
title: Boris Johnson’s kipper claim is a red herring - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The EU does not set any requirements on the temperature at which smoked fish must be transported. The temperature requirement is a UK regulation.


text: Legislation has been signed which sets in stone the repeal of the European Communities Act.
claimant: Steve Barclay
claim_date: 2019-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-law-repeal-not-set-in-stone/
title: The government has not just “set in stone” the repeal of the European Communities Act - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government has brought into force Section 1 of the EU (Withdrawal) Act (passed in 2018), which states that the European Communities Act is repealed on “exit day”. In practice, repeal of the European Communities Act is no more “set in stone” now than it was in the spring.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2017-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/drugs-homicide/
title: Drugs and homicide - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Between 2014-15 and 2016-17, killings where either the victim or suspect were involved in using or dealing illegal drugs increased from 50% to 57%.

textual_rating:
This is based on homicides in England and Wales where it’s possible to say whether the victim and/or suspect was a drug user or dealer. As a proportion of all homicides, the increase is from 41% to 42%. We also don’t know the levels for any other years.


text: Transport for the North’s budget has been reduced by 40%.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/transport-for-north-budget/
title: Is Transport for the North’s budget being reduced by 40%? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This much is being removed from Transport for the North’s core funding, though not from its total funding. It will be able to access some extra funding from other programmes to supplement its core funding.


text: mRNA vaccines are not recommended for pregnant women or those who are breastfeeding.
claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Andrew-Bridgen-Covid-19-vaccines/
review_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Andrew Bridgen wrong to say Covid-19 mRNA vaccines aren’t recommended while pregnant or breastfeeding - Full Fact

textual_rating:
False. Both the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines are recommended by public health bodies for those who are pregnant or breastfeeding.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-07-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-riots-community-note-building-collapse/
title: Twitter community note about video of building collapsing in France is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video of a firefighter standing in front of a burnt building which then collapses shows the aftermath of an incident in Paris which predates the recent unrest in France.

textual_rating:
The video was not taken in Paris. The footage is from Montargis, a town 60 miles from Paris, and it was filmed on 30 June—after the recent unrest in the country had begun.


text: The government are putting £34 billion into the NHS, the biggest ever cash injection.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/
title: Boris Johnson’s first interview of 2020: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the spending increase between 2018/19 and 2023/24 in cash terms, but that’s not the most meaningful way to look at it. In real terms it’s a spending increase of £20.5 billion and that’s not a record level.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pele-feet-FIFA/
title: Pelé’s feet will not be displayed in FIFA museum - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. FIFA denies any such plans, and there are no official sources for the claim.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
FIFA has requested to keep Pelé's feet for historical reasons and his family have given the permission for his feet to be kept in the museum.


text: The number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in A&E is up 2,700% since 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-viral-image-factcheck/
title: NHS viral image factcheck - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct (although not all patients will necessarily have been waiting in A&E). In 2011/12, 120 patients in England waited 12 hours between the decision to admit them to emergency admissions and their actual admission, compared to 3,500 in 2017/18.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/corbyn-tariq-mahmood/
title: Photo shows Jeremy Corbyn shaking hands with man previously jailed for electoral fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows Jeremy Corbyn shaking hands with Tariq Mahmood, who has served a prison sentence for ballot rigging.

textual_rating:
The photo is genuine and shows the two shaking hands during 2019 the Peterborough by-election. Mr Mahmood was jailed in 2008 for electoral fraud. Police found no electoral fraud offences were committed in the 2019 by-election.


text: The Pirbright Institute has the main patent for coronavirus, which was granted by Serco.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/seco-track-trace-video/
title: This video makes a number of inaccurate claims about the Covid-19 pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Pirbright Institute’s coronavirus patent is not related to the virus causing the current outbreak, and we can find no evidence that it was granted by Serco.


text: A majority of the public is against extending the transition period between the UK and the EU.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-transition-period-economic-cost-public-opinion/
review_date: 2020-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Claim that extending the Brexit transition period could cost £380 billion is not credible - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The poll found more people are opposed to extension than in favour of it, but less than 50% so it’s not a majority opinion. Many other recent polls have shown the opposite.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Expose-vaccine-death-false/
title: No evidence linking deaths among children to vaccine rollout - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More children have died since Covid-19 vaccines were given to 12 to 15-year-olds, compared with the five year average of mortality stats from 2015 to 2019.

textual_rating:
While statistics show the deaths of children, sadly, did increase compared to the five year average, there is no evidence that these deaths are linked to Covid-19 vaccines.


text: A majority of 6,200 doctors said hydroxychloroquine is the most effective coronavirus treatment.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2020-04-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-chloroquine-treatment/
review_date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
No, a survey didn’t find a majority of doctors saying that hydroxychloroquine is the most effective treatment for Covid-19 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The poll the data comes from is not representative of all doctors. 37%, not a majority, of those involved in Covid-19 treatment worldwide said hydroxychloroquine was among the most effective treatments.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-exporting-firms/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: exporting firms - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Only 6 per cent of UK firms export to the EU, yet all have to abide by EU regulations on their business

textual_rating:
There are no official figures of how many UK businesses export to the EU. This estimate is justifiable and we do know that around 5% of VAT-registered businesses exported to their EU peers in 2014/15.


text: Everybody is getting their news and information, and watching television on a tablet.
claimant: Richard Madeley
claim_date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-shopping-gets-done-online/
title: How much shopping gets done online? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An Ofcom survey published in 2017 reported that 17% of UK adults reported getting news from internet or apps on a tablet, although Ofcom says this may be underestimated. Most adults get their news from television. An Ofcom commissioned survey found that of adults who used video on demand or TV catch-up services, 35% watch film and TV on a tablet. 83% use a TV.


text: The NHS spends £100 million on translators for 128 languages in five years.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-translators-cost/
title: There isn’t good data on how much the NHS spends on translators - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A 2012 report based on FOIs found that NHS trusts (that responded) spent £23.3m on translation services in 2010/11. We don’t have recent or complete figures for how much the NHS has spent on translators because no one collects that information. We can’t find a reliable source for the 128 languages figure.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-monkeypox-covid-vaccine-aids-false/
title: Monkeypox is not a government conspiracy to cover up ‘vaccine-induced’ diseases - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We’re not witnessing an outbreak of monkeypox across first-world countries, but the consequences of the damage that has been caused to immune systems by the Covid-19 vaccines.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Thousands of monkeypox infections have been confirmed in laboratories, and the Covid-19 vaccines have not caused widespread immune damage.


claimant: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
claim_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/uk-tree-planting-figures/
title: The Government is not expecting tree planting to almost halve by 2025 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government projects that the yearly area of afforestation in the UK will decrease from 13,300 hectares in 2021 to 7,500 hectares by 2025.

textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. The figure published by the government for 2021 relates to the whole of the UK, while projections for later years only relate to tree planting in England. This isn’t made clear in the published data.


text: There are more teachers with first class degrees.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/teachers-first-class-degrees/
title: Teachers with first class degrees - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The proportion of postgraduate trainee teachers with first class degrees did increase between 2012 and 2014. In 2015 and 2016 it seems to be static. These more recent figures aren’t fully comparable with those from earlier because of a change in the data.


text: We don’t have data on people who died of Covid-19 as the primary infection.
claimant: Liam Fox
claim_date: 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/liam-fox-death-figures/
review_date: 2021-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
73,444 deaths registered in 2020 in England and Wales had Covid-19 as the underlying cause - Full Fact

textual_rating:
We do know how many deaths were registered in England and Wales with Covid-19 as the underlying cause. In 2020 it was 73,444.


text: The average rail worker earns £44,000.
claimant: Grant Shapps
claim_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/RMT-strike-salary/
title: Average salary of workers involved in RMT national rail strike is not £44,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is the median salary for rail sector roles. It includes train drivers, few of whom are involved in the RMT strike, and excludes other workers such as cleaners, who are. The RMT says the median salary of its rail members is £31,000.


text: Just 13,844 people in England and Wales were infected with Covid-19 in 2020.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/noids-covid/
title: Millions—not thousands—caught Covid last year - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is close to the number of NOIDs notifications by doctors, but it is not the total number of infections. Almost 2.5 million people tested positive for Covid-19 in England and Wales last year.


text: The UK provided 20% of the new cases of coronavirus in the world on Sunday, 17 October 2021.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-cases-uk/
title: Viral tweet overstates UK’s lead in Covid-19 cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s more like 15% of reported cases, and that may be influenced by different reporting times between countries and delays caused by the weekend. The seven day average is a better measure to compare and on 18 October this showed the UK had 10% of new cases.


text: The length of time that people are waiting for their procedures is actually going down.
claimant: Maria Caulfield
claim_date: 2023-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maria-caulfield-nhs-waiting-times/
title: No clear evidence of a significant fall in average waiting times - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The median wait for elective treatment has been higher throughout the last year than it was in the year before. A slight fall since the winter may be a seasonal effect. The number of very long waits has come down, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that waiting times have improved overall.


text: Only self-employed people with incomes over £16,000 will lose out from the changes to NICs.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/taxes-national-insurance-and-self-employed/
title: Taxes, national insurance and the self-employed - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s about right. It’s roughly in the middle of two estimates we’ve seen, both of which were done in a reasonable way.


text: An orange has tested positive for Covid-19 using a lateral flow test.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/orange-covid-positive/
title: Oranges don’t test positive for Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not accurate. The fruit appears to have broken the test, making it appear like a positive result. Lateral flow tests rarely give false positives, and are more likely to give false negatives.


text: Boris Johnson suggested buying a new kettle to save £10 a year on energy bills.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Boris-Johnson-new-kettle/
title: Boris Johnson’s kettle comments taken out of context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While Mr Johnson did say that buying a new kettle could bring about savings of £10 a year on electricity bills, he appears to have been attempting to make an analogy for the long-term cost benefits of nuclear energy, rather than offering advice on how to save money on energy bills.


text: Many immigrants who speak no English arrived in the UK as grandparents.
claimant: Dame Louise Casey
claim_date: 2016-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigrants-learning-english/
title: Immigrants learning English - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true that older immigrants make up a disproportionate number of those who have no English, although they’re still in a minority. About 25% of migrants who can’t speak any English arrived after they turned 50.


text: The number of homicides in London was around 250 in 2006, 110 in 2016 and 150 last year.
claimant: Cressida Dick
claim_date: 2018-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/number-homicides-london-has-fallen-over-last-decade/
title: The number of homicides in London has fallen over the last decade - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These aren’t all correct. The Metropolitan Police told us it recorded 172 homicides in 2006, 109 in 2016, and 134 in 2017 (of which 12 were terrorism related).


claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2016-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/can-uk-change-mind-leaving-eu-brexit/
title: Can the UK change its mind about leaving the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK could change its mind about withdrawing from the EU even after triggering the formal process of leaving under Article 50.

textual_rating:
Article 50 doesn’t say whether or not a country can change its mind, so it’s arguable either way. Some eminent lawyers think that it can, but there are also those – especially within the EU itself – who argue that once a country has triggered Article 50 it can’t then abort the process without permission.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/stronger-facts-leaflet-lower-prices/
title: Stronger In "facts" leaflet: lower prices - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Being in Europe means lower prices in UK shops, saving the average UK household over £350 a year. If we left Europe, your weekly shop could cost more.

textual_rating:
This isn’t the impact of being in the EU as such, but one estimate of the impact of the free trade deals the EU has negotiated—a saving of 1.27% for the average household. It’s difficult to say overall what the impact of being in the EU has had on prices in the UK.


text: There’s been a reduction in the quantity of business rates across the board in total.
claimant: Greg Clark
claim_date: 2017-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/business-rates-up-or-down/
title: Business rates: up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct. In the past few years a combination of increased reliefs, threshold changes and caps on business rate increases have reduced the amount businesses are paying overall.


text: The EG.5 variant of Covid-19 is a new 5G virus.
claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eg5-covid-not-connected-5g/
title: The EG.5 variant of Covid-19 has nothing to do with 5G - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Covid-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The 5G network uses radio waves that do not harm people’s health.


text: Scotland’s NHS budget is dependent on how much the UK Government allocates to NHS England.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/scotland-nhs-funding-devolved/
title: Westminster does not control the amount Scotland spends on its NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK Government’s decisions on how much it spends on health in England does affect the total budget of the Scottish Government, but the Scottish Government can decide how much of that budget to spend on the Scottish NHS independently.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/brighton-seafront-express/
title: This photo of Brighton was taken during the coronavirus lockdown - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is incorrect. Metadata from the photo shows it was taken during lockdown.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Express used a photo from before coronavirus lockdown to suggest people in Brighton were breaking social distancing rules.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-instagram-cloudy/
title: No evidence ‘trails’ are deliberately put into the sky by planes - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Contrails may be less visible in winter as the weather is less humid.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Chemtrails should be more visible when it’s cold, yet they are seen more commonly during the summer.


text: Cannabis oil can cure cancer.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cannabis-oil-cure-cancer/
title: No solid proof cannabis oil can ‘cure’ cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While there is good evidence that some cannabis products can be beneficial to cancer patients to manage pain or treatment of side effects, there is no evidence it can cure the disease.


claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/self-harm-suicides-jail/
title: Self-harm and suicides in jail - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Every week in prisons there are 600 incidents of self-harm, at least one suicide, and 350 assaults, including 90 on staff.

textual_rating:
Correct, although suicides aren't measured precisely. 2015 was the worst year on record for these incidents.


claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2021-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/delta-variant-hospitalisations/
title: Newspapers report Covid hospitalisations over seven months as over seven days - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
9,472 people were admitted to hospitals in England with the Delta variant of Covid-19 in the seven days to 29 August.

textual_rating:
False. 9,472 people were admitted to hospitals in England with a confirmed case of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in the seven months to 29 August. This only included overnight stays.


text: Thirty-two deaths from the swine flu vaccine in 1976 halted the programme.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/swine-flu-vaccine-1976-covid/
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Comparisons between deaths reported after swine flu and Covid-19 vaccines are misleading - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Full Fact could not find a confirmed number of deaths reported after a swine flu vaccine in 1976, but reports suggest that a number of the deaths could not be directly linked with the vaccine. The rollout was halted because of a number of reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome, and the fact the swine flu cases never reached pandemic levels.


text: French pensions are three times higher than those in the UK.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-france-pension-comparisons/
title: How wages and pensions in the UK and France compare - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Total net pensions in France account for 74% of previous earnings, compared to around 58% in the UK. This doesn’t account for other benefits, or how much people pay into them.


text: The Covid-19 vaccine is a trial drug.
claimant: Beverley Turner
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/this-morning-vaccines/
title: This Morning guest makes misleading claims on vaccine efficacy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research on the ongoing efficacy and safety of the vaccines will continue but data on key safety and efficacy aspects has been published and peer reviewed.


text: Latex rubber is in vaccines and causes life-threatening allergic reactions.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-ingredients/
title: This image about vaccine ingredients is extremely misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Latex is used in the packaging of some vaccines, which could potentially cause harm if someone’s strongly allergic to it.


text: Since 2015, the UK has resettled more refugees than any other country in Europe.
claimant: Sajid Javid
claim_date: 2021-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/sajid-javid-refugee-resettlement-scheme/
title: Resettlement figures don’t give us the full picture on refugee numbers - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true, but “resettlement” only applies to a small percentage of the number of refugees a country might accept. Other countries in Europe have accepted far more people for protection as a whole than the UK.


text: Theresa May blocked NHS funding for a brand of glucose sensor which is a lifeline to diabetics.
claimant: Viral tweet
claim_date: 2018-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-funding-blocked-blood-glucose-monitors/
title: Has NHS funding been blocked for glucose sensors? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The sensor has been available for funding on the NHS across the UK since November 2017, but not all areas have chosen to make it available yet. Since this claim was first made, it's been announced that from April 2019 it will be available to all patients in England who meet certain criteria.


claimant: Christopher Hooton
claim_date: 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/150-million-bbc-licence-fee-loophole/
title: The £150 million BBC licence fee loophole? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The BBC lost £150 million a year because the licence fee didn’t cover iPlayer until 1 September 2016.

textual_rating:
The BBC has said that it will make £150 million less in 2016/17 from licence fees than it had expected in 2011, which it attributes to fewer people owning TVs and more people watching programmes online. The BBC doesn’t publish these forecasts so nobody can assess the reliability of this claim.


