# claims

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
text:
Over 90% of the women who are pregnant and have Covid-19 vaccines in early pregnancy experience a miscarriage in the first 12 weeks.

textual_rating:
This isn’t true. The MHRA says there is no sign to suggest the vaccines are causing miscarriages, and the NHS says there is no need to avoid getting pregnant after having the vaccines.


text: The image in the post shows soldiers during World War Two.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/65-year-old-rationing/
review_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
These claims about people of certain ages remembering parts of World War Two are generally incorrect - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The image is from World War One. All of those who served in the conflict died some years before the Brexit vote.


claimant: Monica Harding
claim_date: 2019-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/lib-dem-esher-walton-poll/
review_date: 2019-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Survation poll for Esher and Walton shows the Liberal Democrats polling ahead of incumbent MP Dominic Raab.

title:
Survation didn’t say the Liberal Democrats are polling ahead of the Conservatives in Esher and Walton - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Survation’s poll wasn’t of the constituency, it was a national survey of voting intention which was then used to model an estimate of what local voting could be – this might not be reliable.


text: The proportion of people with a job who live in poverty has risen for the last three years.
claimant: The Guardian
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. In 2017/18, 13% of households with at least one person in work lived in poverty. This was a slight fall from the year before.


text: Late diagnoses in A&E are due to GPs missing signs of the disease.
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
textual_rating:
There is some research suggesting that GPs may miss some symptoms of lung cancer, but this isn’t the only reason for diagnoses following an emergency presentation.


text: The number of EU nurses coming to the UK has fallen by 90% since the Brexit vote.
claimant: Peter Stefanovic
claim_date: 2018-11-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eu-staff-nhs-what-has-happened-referendum/
title: EU staff in the NHS: what has happened since the referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of nurses and midwives from the EEA joining the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s register fell by 91% from 2015/16 to 2017/18.


text: Illegal immigrants and refugees living here get an annual income of £29,900.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/germany-pensions-refugees-illegal-immigrants/
title: Historic claim on refugee and pensioner incomes is still wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Illegal immigrants who don’t have leave to remain in the UK can’t claim most benefits and destitute asylum seekers can only get £40.85 a week. Refugees can claim benefits but are subject to the benefits cap, which is far below £29,900 per year.


text: £4,300 cost to UK families if Britain leaves the EU.
claimant: HMRC
claim_date: 2016-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/4300-question-would-leaving-eu-really-make-every-household-worse/
title: The £4,300 question: would leaving the EU really make every household worse off? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
At best that’s a red herring. Most economists seem to agree that leaving the EU would cost the UK economically but this amount is an unhelpful summary of the underlying research.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/Tommy-Robinson-Image/
title: These claims about radical Muslim preachers and Tommy Robinson are mostly incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Hate preacher Abu Hamza was a drug dealer who called for death to the queen and faced no action for his crimes.

textual_rating:
We could not find evidence of Hamza selling drugs or calling for the death of the queen specifically. He was sentenced to life in prison by the US authorities and has served time in the UK for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.


text: The UK is a world leader in robberies.
claimant: Louise Haigh
claim_date: 2018-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/robbery-uk-world-leader/
title: Robbery: Is the UK a “world leader”? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The increase in the number and rate of recorded robberies between 2015 and 2016 was greater in England and Wales than in any of 12 other countries examined in Home Office analysis. But in Spain, the USA and France the actual number and rate of robberies was higher than in England and Wales.


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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
915 children were admitted with malnutrition in Cambridge hospitals between 2015 and 2020. There were 656 similar admissions at Newcastle hospitals, and 656 at the Royal Free London hospitals.

textual_rating:
These numbers seem to refer to all admissions, not children only. The correct figures for children are 33, 71 and 11.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tractor-protest-holland-freedom-convoy/
title: Picture of tractors in the Netherlands has nothing to do with Canada ‘freedom convoy’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture of tractors blocking a motorway in Holland was taken yesterday and is part of a global protest movement.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The picture is from 2019, and the protest shown was against climate change policies in the Netherlands.


text: Brazil produces 25% of the planet’s food.
claimant: Marco Longhi
claim_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/brazil-food-production-marco-longhi/
review_date: 2021-12-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Brazil doesn’t produce 25% of the world’s food, as the UK’s trade envoy to the country claimed - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This appears far too high. The most recent available data from the UN shows Brazil produces 10% of the world’s food by weight and 4% by value.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/jean-claude-van-damme-muslim/
title: There’s no evidence Jean-Claude Van Damme is Muslim - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence he said this or has converted to Islam.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jean-Claude Van Damme said when he converted to Islam he didn’t get any job offers but that wasn’t important and he doesn’t regret it.


text: The UK has no patient safety agency.
claimant: Kate Shemirani
claim_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kate-shemirani-cause-death/
title: The UK is not being flooded with contaminated drugs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The National Patient Safety Agency closed in 2012 and its functions were transferred to various bodies. So while there is no single body with national oversight of patient safety, it would be wrong to suggest that there are no organisations or officials with this responsibility.


claimant: Akshata Murthy
claim_date: 2022-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rishi-sunak-akshata-murty-non-dom-tax/
title: Why Rishi Sunak’s wife’s tax status isn’t a direct consequence of her citizenship - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
India does not allow its citizens to hold the citizenship of another country simultaneously. So, according to British law, Ms Murty is treated as non-domiciled for UK tax purposes.

textual_rating:
India doesn't allow its citizens to hold dual-nationality but that’s not the reason why Ms Murty is taxed as a non-domicile. This is an active choice.


claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/keir-starmer-good-morning-britain/
title: Keir Starmer’s GMB interview: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government hasn’t gone after £11.8 billion lost to fraud and undelivered contracts during the pandemic.

textual_rating:
Labour hasn’t clarified how this figure was calculated. It might include some money that has already been reclaimed, or is expected to be and may not be comprehensive.


text: The average worker is over £1,000 worse off today than they were in 2010.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/angela-rayner-wrong-wage-growth/
title: Angela Rayner wrong on wage growth - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure compares wages for full-time employees between 2010 and 2020, not “today”. Other wage statistics show wages for all employees in July 2021 were worth about £1,480 more than in 2010 in real terms.


claimant: Sunday Express
claim_date: 2019-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/fathers-day/
title: Did four in ten dads not see their children this Father’s Day? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Four in ten fathers will not see their children this Father’s Day due to separation and family breakdown.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Respondents were not asked why they or someone they knew did not see their children on Father’s Day. So it’s incorrect to assume all of these cases are due to separation and family breakdown.


text: Smoking ban credited for 74% drop in heart attacks in Scotland.
claimant: The Herald
claim_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/scotland-smoking-ban-heart-attack/
title: Herald suggests Scotland’s 2006 smoking ban behind drop in heart attacks since 1990 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The research reported shows the 74% drop in heart attacks since 1990 is due to a reduction in the risk from smoking, cholesterol and high blood pressure. It only mentions the ban in passing.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2018-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/photo-japan-boy-soldier-brother/
title: No evidence quote about photo of child in Nagasaki is true - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A famous photo from the aftermath of bombing in Japan in 1945 was taken by a soldier who spotted a child carrying his dead sibling and was told “he’s not heavy, he’s my brother”.

textual_rating:
The picture was taken by a US Marine on assignment to photograph the aftermath of bombings in Japan in 1945, but there’s no evidence the specific interaction described actually happened.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-coronavirus-this-morning/
review_date: 2020-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Prime Minister Boris Johnson advocated for the UK to take Covid-19 “on the chin” and allow the disease to spread through the population.

title:
Here is the transcript of what Boris Johnson said on This Morning about the new coronavirus - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The Prime Minister said this was a theory on how to deal with the virus, but said it would be better if we take all the measures we can to reduce the burden on the NHS during the peak of the disease.


text: Any speed over 90mph is an instant ban and possible court order and custodial sentence.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
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:
Only a court can impose a driving ban, and whether they decide do depends on the circumstances. Police guidance suggests that speeds over 96mph are likely to result in someone being summoned to court.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/stronger-facts-leaflet-leaving/
title: Stronger In "facts" leaflet: leaving - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Leaving the EU would cost the average UK household at least £850 a year, and potentially as much as £1,700, according to research released by the London School of Economics.

textual_rating:
These figures don’t tell you how much you or your family would lose, but they point in the same direction as most other economic analysis seems to.


text: The number of NHS overnight hospital beds has fallen by 15,000 since 2010.
claimant: Daily Mirror
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:
This is in the right ballpark but isn’t the best comparison. It’s fairer to say the number of beds has fallen by about 12,000.


text: A video shows an earthquake taking place in Turkey.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Turkey-video-Nepal-earthquake/
review_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The video shows a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which occurred in Nepal in April 2015.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Footage claiming to show recent earthquake in Turkey actually shows 2015 earthquake in Nepal - Full Fact


claimant: Damian Green
claim_date: 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/falling-oil-price-and-scotlands-independence/
title: The oil price and Scotland’s independence - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The price of oil has fallen from $100 a barrel during the Scottish independence referendum to $50 a barrel. Scottish people now have twice as much reason to reject independence.

textual_rating:
The price of oil has fallen from around $90 a barrel to $50. But there isn’t much evidence this has had an impact on the proportion of people saying they would vote for independence.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nadine-dorries-vaccine/
title: Nadine Dorries says email from her office on vaccines does not reflect her views - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nadine Dorries MP’s office said that although vaccines aren’t mandatory, if you choose not to have a Covid-19 vaccine, you will face short-term restrictions to prevent you infecting anyone else.

textual_rating:
This is a genuine email sent from her office but according to the MP, it was not signed off by her and doesn’t reflect her view or government policy.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/found-cocker-spaniel-hoax/
title: No evidence viral appeal for information about ‘found’ cocker spaniel is genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A cocker spaniel was found by the side of the road two weeks ago and its owner still cannot be traced.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is a real appeal. Near-identical posts have been shared in groups across the country and they closely resemble a number of hoax posts we’ve checked in the past.


text: If you request gift aid, the charity organisers take 5% of the gift aid before passing it on.
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:
If a donor adds Gift Aid onto their donation, JustGiving deducts a 5% Gift Aid processing service fee. This is collected separately from the donations made.


text: £1.8 billion of ‘new money’ has been announced for the NHS over the next five years.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2019-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-money-new-or-not/
title: Money for the NHS: is it new or not? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
£850 million has been announced for 20 hospitals over the next five years and £1 billion for the NHS in capital funding this year. The £1 billion is money that NHS trusts previously earned through a cost-cutting incentive scheme, but were then told not to spend. It is ‘new’ in the sense that the Treasury had not previously budgeted for them spending it.


claimant: Various
claim_date: 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/ask-full-fact-have-conservatives-redefined-child-poverty/
title: Ask Full Fact: have the Conservatives redefined child poverty? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has changed the definition of child poverty, meaning that figures showing no significant change since 2010 can’t be trusted.

textual_rating:
They haven’t changed what’s counted or how it’s counted. They did change the target. We can still use the original measures of child poverty to see whether the numbers are going up or down.


text: No one has ever died of tetanus within minutes or hours.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-deaths/
title: Tetanus jabs are not being used to sterilise people - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The NHS says that symptoms of tetanus start after around 10 days on average, so it is unlikely that anyone has died within minutes or hours. But the virus is estimated to kill more than 200,000 people worldwide each year and is described as “always serious and often fatal”.


text: There are 2,400 post-Brexit EU laws on our statute book.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2022-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/sunak-retained-EU-law-repetition/
review_date: 2022-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Rishi Sunak video fails to say some retained EU laws have already been repealed or replaced - Full Fact

textual_rating:
According to government figures, of the 2,417 retained EU laws, 229 have already been repealed or replaced. A number of others have also been amended.


text: Fluoride is so toxic it is considered hazardous waste.
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:
Fluoride is toxic at high concentrations, but these are much higher than the levels found in toothpaste and tap water.


text: Monkeypox is ‘vaccine acquired shingles’.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/monkeypox-shingles/
title: Monkeypox is not ‘vaccine acquired’ shingles - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Monkeypox is not the same as shingles. They are caused by two completely different viruses. However, the monkeypox virus is related to the one that causes smallpox. There’s no evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines cause monkeypox.


claimant: Akala
claim_date: 2018-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/america-world-peace/
title: America: seen as the number one threat to world peace, says one survey - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A global survey from around 2014 found that 24% of people thought the USA was the country that posed the greatest danger to world peace.


claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/saunas-risk-of-death/
title: Saunas not proven to reduce risk of death - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Using saunas once a week reduces risk of death from any cause by 30 to 40%, maybe even more. Use of saunas three times a week reduces this a further 30 to 40%.

textual_rating:
This may be referring to a Finnish study which found an association between sauna use four to seven times a week and a 40% reduced risk of death compared to using saunas once a week. But the study did not compare with people who don’t use saunas, and cannot be used as evidence that saunas themselves caused a decrease in risk of death.


text: There are now a record number of police officers in England and Wales.
claimant: Suella Braverman
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
textual_rating:
There are now 149,572 police officers in England and Wales by headcount, which is the highest total on record. However the number of police officers per capita was higher in 2010. These figures also don’t reflect falls in the number of PCSOs and special constables.


claimant: Nigel Farage
claim_date: 2016-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/article-50-and-eu-budget-payments/
title: Article 50 and EU budget payments - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK will pay a net £20 billion into the EU budget while it negotiates the terms of exit under Article 50.

textual_rating:
We can’t replicate the exact figure, but it’s plausible. The UK is set to pay over £9 billion per annum net into the EU budget in the next few years.


claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2016-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/cameron-bbcqt-eu-referendum-special-myths/
title: False claims about false claims about the EU referendum - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Vote Leave campaign includes three completely untrue claims on its EU referendum leaflet: Turkey becoming a member, an EU army and the £350 million a week cost of membership.

textual_rating:
The claim about the cost of membership is not true, because we don’t pay that much. The claims about the other two things have been overstated, but they can’t be ruled out as completely untrue.


claimant: British Heart Foundation
claim_date: 2022-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/british-heart-foundation-covid-heart-disease-excess-deaths/
title: British Heart Foundation comments on 30,000 excess deaths lack important context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Extreme heart care disruption has caused 30,000 excess deaths involving heart disease in England since the start of the pandemic.

textual_rating:
This figure cannot be solely attributed to disruption in care. Almost 21,000 people suffering with heart disease died with Covid-19 listed as the underlying cause in this period. This may have been another significant contributing factor.


text: 72% of free schools are located in areas with a shortage of places.
claimant: Department for Education
claim_date: 2015-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/seven-ten-free-schools-are-areas-needing-more-school-places/
title: Seven in ten free schools are in areas needing more school places - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
DfE analysis shows 7 in 10 open free schools are (or 75% of open and approved free schools). Many of the schools won't be operating at full capacity yet.


claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2015-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/esa-extra-money-some/
title: ESA: "extra money" for some - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The most vulnerable people claiming Employment and Support Allowance will continue to get extra money despite benefit cuts.

textual_rating:
Those in the ESA support group will be getting more than other claimants, but the real value of the benefit will fall over time.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/scottish-water-radium/
title: Scottish Water says there’s no radium in its drinking water - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Scotland’s water supplier says there is no radium in its drinking water.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Scottish Water worker was overheard saying there’s radium in the water in Scotland and it’s making people ill but they’re not meant to be telling people.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-kyiv-italian-news-deep-impact/
title: No evidence news channel used shot from Deep Impact to show people fleeing Kyiv - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Italian news channel TGCOM24 used footage from the 1998 film Deep Impact in a segment about people fleeing Kyiv.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence this footage was ever broadcast by TGCOM24. There are several indicators that the post is not genuine.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/half-ownership-property-renting/
title: You cannot get ‘half-ownership’ of a property you’ve rented for five years - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You can claim half-ownership on a property if you have lived there for seven years, and now that has been changed to five years.

textual_rating:
This appears to be a misunderstanding about squatters rights, or adverse possession, where someone can apply to acquire ownership of a property if they act as the owner, unchallenged after 10 years. However, this does not apply for those renting from landlords.


claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/teacher-starting-salaries-competitive/
title: £30,000 would be a high graduate salary for most new teachers in England - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Raising starting salaries for teachers to £30,000 will put them among the most competitive in the graduate labour market.

textual_rating:
This is fair. £30,000 would put graduate teachers among the top quarter of graduate earners in England.


text: Future governments are required to run a budget surplus when the economy is doing well.
claimant: Andrew Henderson, lawyer
claim_date: 2015-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/paying-debt-one-law-time/
title: Paying off the debt, one law at a time - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These kinds of rules can always be repealed by a future government, and they can be broken without any particular legal consequences.


text: An estimated 0.5% of people arriving into the UK have Covid-19.
claimant: John Aston
claim_date: 2020-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/coronavirus-lockdown-arrivals-infections/
title: It’s likely that over 100,000 people have entered the UK since the lockdown began - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These were remarks by the Home Office’s Chief Scientific Advisor, which were later clarified to be wrong. 0.5% is an estimate for the proportion of reported Covid-19 cases in the UK believed to have been “imported” from abroad as of 23 March.


text: GP numbers are experiencing their first sustained fall for 50 years.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
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 number of GPs (excluding registrars, retainers and locums) per 100,000 people across the UK since 1964.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/day-of-the-dead-drone-Mexico-Japan-fake/
title: Day of the Dead drone display of skull wearing sombrero didn’t happen - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows an aerial drone display in Mexico City depicting a skull wearing a sombrero as part of celebrations for Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead.

textual_rating:
This didn’t happen. There’s no other evidence the event took place. The drone display is almost certainly a digital effect. The city in the photo isn’t Mexico City either—it was taken near Mount Fuji, Japan.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/petrol-crude-oil-prices/
title: Crude oil is not cheaper in pounds now than in 2008 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The oil price today is £96 a barrel as petrol approaches £2 per litre. In June 2008, it hit £109 a barrel yet petrol was £1.19 per litre.

textual_rating:
While some of these figures are broadly correct, this post does not account for changes in currency exchange rates. As a result, it is not true that crude oil is cheaper in pounds now than in 2008.


text: Al Gore said that the ice caps would melt by 2014.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/polar-ice-al-gore/
title: There wasn’t more polar ice “than ever” in 2015 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
He didn’t say this, although he did suggest that sea ice in the Arctic might be gone during summer months by that year. Sea ice isn’t the only ice in the polar ice caps.


text: The new benefit cap will affect 40,000 single mothers.
claimant: GMB
claim_date: 2016-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/impact-new-benefit-cap/
title: How does the new benefit cap affect single mothers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Department for Work and Pensions has estimated that up to 54,000 families with single mothers could be affected by the benefit cap in 2016/17. Of those, it’s likely that around 40,000 were newly affected as a result of the recent lowering of the cap.


claimant: 2020 News
claim_date: 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-vaccine-peg-ade/
title: Claims about the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine ingredients lack evidence - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The mRNA vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer contain polyethylene glycol (PEG). 70% of people develop antibodies against this substance—this means many people can develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination.

textual_rating:
It’s true that the vaccine contains this, but in very small amounts. In some rare cases people are allergic to PEG and one study found 72% of samples were found to contain mostly low levels of antibodies against it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that many will have an allergic reaction.


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
text:
Iain Duncan Smith MP has use of a House of Commons bar where purchases are subsidised by £7 to every £10 spent.

textual_rating:
Although not directly subsidised, the catering services run at a loss, so public money is effectively spent subsidising the catering overall.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/liz-truss-dad-tweet/
title: Tweet from Liz Truss’s father calling her ‘poo-poo bear’ is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The tweet is fake and has since been deleted.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Liz Truss’s father has tweeted saying she could not tie her shoelaces until she was 12, and asking her to “turn against fascism”.


text: Top chief executives earn in 2.5 days what an average worker earns in a year.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/ceo-pay/
title: Top CEOs make average worker salary in three days - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In the right ballpark. In 2018 the average FTSE 100 CEO earned in around three days what a full-time worker does in a year on average.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/there-no-hiv-covid-19-vaccines/
title: There is no HIV in the Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The eight week interval between vaccine doses is designed to coincide with the immune system’s “reproductive system”, so that the second dose can hit the immune system while it’s down.

textual_rating:
False. There is a gap between vaccine doses because this has been shown to be more effective at protecting against Covid-19. White blood cells have a range of different life spans.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-08-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/UN-chief-Christians-MAPs-excluded-from-society/
review_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A UN expert said Christians who don’t “accept MAPs” (minor-attracted persons) will be “excluded from society”.

title:
A UN expert did not say Christians who don’t accept paedophiles will be ‘excluded from society’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not true. The report it’s referring to said no such thing, and instead was about religious freedoms and the rights of LGBT people.


text: One million ‘legal migrants’ moved to Britain in 2020/21.
claimant: Turning Point UK
claim_date: 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/turning-point-million-legal-migrants/
title: No evidence one million people legally moved to Britain in 2020/2021 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no data to prove this claim. It relies on information about immigration from the previous year, and makes assumptions about the number of people who would migrate to Britain over the course of 2020 and 2021—despite the pandemic.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/centre-parcs-CEO-giveaway/
title: CEO of Center Parcs is not giving away a free holiday on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Center Parcs has confirmed that it is not affiliated with the post in any way.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The CEO of Center Parcs is giving away a free holiday to someone who likes, shares and comments on a Facebook post.


text: All EU members have to adopt the Euro after 2020.
claimant: BrexitCentral
claim_date: 2019-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-countries-euro-2020/
title: EU member countries don’t all have to join the Euro by 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The UK and Denmark have opt-outs so don’t have to join the Euro. The seven countries without an opt-out and not already in the Euro are supposed to join it, but only once they meet certain conditions. There is currently no time limit on this process.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gas-prices-brexit/
title: Has Brexit caused higher gas prices? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Part of the reason the UK is experiencing such high gas prices right now is because of Brexit, and the UK leaving the Internal Energy Market.

textual_rating:
There is not evidence that this is a significant factor in higher wholesale gas prices in the UK at the moment.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/cop26-private-jets-scotland-carbon-emissions-year/
title: Emissions from COP26 private jets are far, far lower than Scotland’s annual CO2 output - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The emissions from private jets flying delegates to Glasgow for COP26 are equivalent to Scotland’s entire annual CO2 emissions.

textual_rating:
This is false. A headline in the Sunday Mail claimed that the emissions from 400 private jets is equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of Scottish people. The article clarifies that this refers to 1,600 Scots, not the entire country, however this has been taken out of context in a number of cases.


text: There are 420,000 more people in work now than at the start of the pandemic.
claimant: Nadine Dorries
claim_date: 2022-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/nadine-dorries-employment/
title: Nadine Dorries wrong to claim employment higher than pre-pandemic level - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. There are 420,000 more employees now than in March 2020, but the total number of people in work, including the self-employed, is 600,000 lower than it was before the start of the pandemic.


text: Capital gains tax has been cut
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
title: Tax cuts: corporation tax, inheritance, capital gains and the bank levy - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-cuts-corporation-tax-inheritance-tax-capital-gains-tax-and-bank-levy/

textual_rating:
The main rate has been cut. But overall, policy changes under the Conservatives and the Coalition have tended to push revenues up.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-05-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-dominic-cummings-sister/
review_date: 2020-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Dominic Cummings’ sister, Alice Cummings, is director of Idox group, which runs the new NHS track and trace and trace app and was involved in the UK’s postal voting system.

title:
Dominic Cummings’ sister is not director of company that runs the NHS track and trace app - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The Alice Cummings who is director at Idox is not his sister. The company Idox has been involved with postal voting, but has nothing to do with the NHS’ track and trace app.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/WEF-private-vehicle-ownership/
review_date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Economic Forum published a paper calling for an end to private car ownership, and under its plans only the elite will own vehicles and enjoy individual travel.

title:
World Economic Forum has not said private vehicle ownership should be restricted to ‘elites’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The article cited as the source for this claim explores alternatives to private car ownership, but it does not call for an end to private vehicle ownership, or for private vehicles to be restricted to “elites”.


claimant: Mark Steyn
claim_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/guy-hatchard-mark-steyn-gb-news/
title: GB News interview features misleading claims about Covid-19 and vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 didn’t cause excess mortality, but there has been a huge uptick in the number of deaths in the middle aged and young since the start of the vaccine rollout.

textual_rating:
Covid-19 caused a huge spike in excess mortality in England and Wales, with almost 98,000 excess deaths recorded between January 2020 and July 2021. Between the start of the vaccine roll-out and the end of 2021, deaths due to causes other than Covid-19 were above the five-year average. There is no evidence this was directly caused by the Covid-19 vaccine.


text: Death rates are lower than previous years which proves Covid-19 hasn’t killed or is killing anyone.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/death-rate-statistics-Covid-19/
title: A fall in death rates doesn’t prove Covid-19 isn’t killing anyone - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While death rates in England have fallen to their lowest levels since 2001, Covid-19 caused one of the biggest spikes in death rates of the past 20 years. Although rates have dropped since last year, people are still dying from Covid-19.


claimant: Fader
claim_date: 2016-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/bame-deaths-police-uk/
title: Deaths of BAME people in police custody - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There have been about 1,500 deaths in police custody since 1990, and about one third of those who died were from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.

textual_rating:
About a tenth of identified deaths in police custody were people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. This is based on figures from the charity INQUEST, which has identified 1563 deaths in total during or following police contact in England and Wales since 1990


text: People are getting paid £850 a week in benefits.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/850-benefits-week/
review_date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
It’s possible to receive financial support above the benefits cap, but this does not apply to the majority of households - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Most people receiving universal credit or housing support receive less than this figure due to the benefits cap. Some can receive over the benefits cap, but most do not.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-boo-bbc-generic/
title: Facebook post about BBC footage of Boris Johnson being booed is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The BBC edited the arrival of Boris and Carrie Johnson arriving at the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations to replace loud boos with “generic audio”.

textual_rating:
The difference in audio between two clips shown by BBC News is due to the fact they were recorded by different crews. The “generic audio” comprised a live interview with royal experts, and also audio captured at the time of Mr and Mrs Johnson’s arrival recorded by a different crew.


text: There have been over 8.7 million abortions since 1967.
url: https://fullfact.org/law/factchecking-campaigning-leaflets-abortion/
title: Factchecking campaigning leaflets on abortion - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Since mid-1968, when the Abortion Act was first introduced in Britain, there have been around 8.7 million recorded abortions.


text: Options for post-Brexit trade deals with the EU will lead to between 2% and 8% lower GDP.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-brexit-costs-wrong/
title: This viral image showing the cost of different Brexit deals is wrong in a lot of ways - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on government analysis of 3 hypothetical deals, which explicitly can’t be used as economic forecasts and are very uncertain. According to the analysis GDP will continue to grow over the next fifteen years in each case, but more slowly than on existing OBR projections.


text: Covid-19 vaccines weaken your immune system and make it harder for your body to fight the disease.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/aunt-georgia-covid-vaccines/
title: The Covid-19 vaccines do protect against severe disease - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Covid-19 vaccines help your body to fight the disease, and are highly effective at preventing hospitalisation and death.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/advert-tube-was-not-made-conservatives/
title: This advert on the tube was not made by the Conservatives - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The advert is fake. It was made by an artist.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A tube advert purporting to be from the Conservatives says “We plan to cut all homeless people in half by 2025”.


text: 2.5 million more people went to A&E last year.
claimant: Claire Perry
claim_date: 2017-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/aande-england-has-never-been-busier/
title: A&E in England has never been busier - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Just over one million more people went to A&E last year compared to the year before. 2.5 million is only correct comparing back to 2010.


text: More people are waiting more than four hours to be seen in A&E since the Conservatives took power.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/a-e-waiting-times-pmqs/
title: A&E waiting times - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of people waiting four hours in all types of A&E in England in 2015/16 is higher than in 2010/11. More people are going to A&E but the percentage of people seen within four hours has also fallen.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kary-mullis-anyone-PCR-test/
title: PCR inventor Kary Mullis quote doesn’t prove the tests are useless - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Kary Mullis said: “Anyone can test positive for practically anything with a PCR test, if you run it long enough with PCR if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick.”

textual_rating:
Kary Mullis did not say these words exactly but statements to that effect at an event discussing HIV and AIDS in 1997. It’s not true that you can find ‘anything in anybody’ using PCR tests. Covid-19 PCR tests are very specific.


text: Furlough fraud cost £4.3 billion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/flawed-list-conservative-costs/
title: Big spending list on Test and Trace and furlough loss needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is an old estimate of how much was lost to both fraud and error in the furlough scheme, Eat Out to Help Out and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, and hadn’t been recovered. The figure is £3.7 billion as of July 2022.


claimant: The truth is where
claim_date: 2021-11-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Pfizer-CEO-fraud-claim/
title: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has not been arrested for vaccine data fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pfizer CEO Dr Albert Bourla was arrested on 5 November and held in custody for deceiving customers on the effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence to support this. Dr Bourla has been seen on television multiple times since, and a Pfizer spokesperson told Full Fact  he has not been arrested.


text: When the UK leaves the EU we won’t be sending vast amounts of money to the EU every year.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-england-394-million-more/
title: NHS England: £394 million more a week? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Our net contribution to the EU budget is typically £9-10 billion a year. We will no longer contribute to it from 2021 onwards, but other costs and economic effects associated with leaving are expected to more than offset that saving.


text: Doubling of teenage depression rates is linked to social media use.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/depression-headline-telegraph/
title: Telegraph headline linking depression and social media isn't backed up by article - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The study referred to in the article does not show this, and the expert quoted in the article said that there could be a number of factors at play.


text: All fish in the English Channel belong to the EU.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/uk-eu-fish-humans-channel/
title: Not all fish in the Channel belong to the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Fishing rights in the Channel, as in all waters surrounding the UK, are managed with a quota system.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-services-cant-use-the-numbers-on-street-lamps-to-find-you/
title: Emergency services can’t use the numbers on street lamps to find you - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Emergency services will know where you are exactly if you quote the numbers painted on street lamps.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Emergency services cannot use this information to identify your location instantly. The numbers are there for councils to locate street lamps for repairs.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister's Questions
claim_date: 2015-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-large-housing-gap/
title: How large is the housing gap? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There's a "massive gap" of 100,000 units a year between what housing is needed and what is being built.

textual_rating:
There's a few different ways of looking at it but 100,000 seems to be a pretty reasonable estimate of the gap (for 2014).


text: There has been a record fall in real wages.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2022-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/august-2022-record-fall-real-wages/
title: Real wages fall sharply—but not by ‘record’ amount when using best measure - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There has been a very large fall in real wages, but it is only a record (since 2001) if you exclude bonuses. Real average total earnings fell more during the financial crisis, and other historic data suggests regular pay fell very steeply in real terms during the 1970s.


claimant: Amber Rudd
claim_date: 2016-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/energy-bill/uk-carbon-emissions-are-falling/
title: UK carbon emissions are falling - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That’s right.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Greenhouse gas emissions fell by 15% between 2010 and 2014, one of the biggest reductions in a single parliament.


text: There were 70 deaths from alcohol in Ireland in August.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/people-did-die-covid-19-ireland-august/
title: People did die of Covid-19 in Ireland in August - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We could find no source for this figure. A 2013 average of 88 alcohol-related deaths a month in Ireland includes a number of different factors, such as the coroner mentioning alcohol dependency, certain alcohol-related diseases, and if they were an alcoholic.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Jacques-Attali-depopulation/
title: French writer Jacques Attali did not advocate for depopulation through a pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
French writer Jacques Attali claimed the future would be about finding a way to reduce the population through a pandemic.

textual_rating:
Mr Attali has denied saying this. The quote does not appear in Mr Attali’s 1993 book Verbatim 1: 1981-1986, as claimed on TikTok.


text: The UK has the lowest literacy rates in its history
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/literacy-numeracy-uk-telegraph/
title: Telegraph columnist wrongly claims literacy at the lowest level in UK history - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Literacy is currently about 99%. In the past, it has been as low as about 5%. Adult and child literacy appear to have either stayed stable or improved over recent decades.


text: The government never committed to taking 3,000 child refugees from Europe under the Dubs Amendment.
claimant: Claire Perry
claim_date: 2017-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/dubs-amendment-3000-refugee-children/
title: The Dubs Amendment: 3,000 refugee children? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There was never an official target, although 3,000 was the number mentioned by campaigners, some of whom say they believed that to be the figure. The government only accepted the Dubs Amendment after the 3,000 target was taken out of it.


text: The UK has banned the Covid-19 vaccine for children under 12.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-children-5-11/
title: UK children under 12 aren’t ‘banned’ from having the Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t true. Children who turned five before September 2022 are still eligible to be vaccinated. Those turning five since the start of September will also be eligible if they are in certain risk groups or in close contact with someone who is immunosuppressed.


text: More Londoners voted for Brexit than for Sadiq Khan as mayor.
claimant: Leave.EU
claim_date: 2018-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/did-more-people-london-vote-leave-eu-sadiq-khan/
title: Did more people in London vote to leave the EU than for Sadiq Khan? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In Greater London, there were around 200,000 more votes for Brexit than first and counted second votes for Sadiq Khan in the London mayor elections. Counting all votes for him (including those that didn’t contribute to his final win) he got 20,000 more votes.


claimant: Sajid Javid
claim_date: 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/sajid-javid-homelessness/
review_date: 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Homelessness reached its peak in 2008 under the last Labour government. Since then it’s down by almost a half.

title:
Sajid Javid claims 50% fall in homelessness under Conservatives—homelessness is up since 2010 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
We’re not aware of any data showing this. Statutory homelessness in England fell between 2003 and 2009. It has risen around 39% since then.


text: Unemployment is the lowest it has been since 1975.
claimant: Nadhim Zahawi
claim_date: 2017-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/unemployment-lowest-1975/
title: Is unemployment the lowest it has been since 1975? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct looking at unemployed people as a percentage of all adults either working or looking for a job across the UK.


text: Chevening is taxpayer-funded.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/chevening-taxpayer-charity/
title: Chevening isn’t 'taxpayer-funded' in the usual sense - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It isn’t in the conventional sense—Chevening is paid for by a trust. But that trust is exempt from paying income tax and appears to have received at least some public money in the past.


text: AstraZeneca translates to ‘weapon that kills’.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Astrazeneca-name-translation/
title: AstraZeneca does not translate to ‘weapon that kills’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It doesn’t. This claim is made by selectively choosing definitions from different languages and cultures. AstraZeneca’s name was created from a merger, with ‘Astra’ coming from the Greek for ‘star’.


claimant: Keir Starmer
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 correct. Government guidance, withdrawn on 13 March, stated this twice.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
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 Wuhan coronavirus is a more virulent version of the normal cold.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wuhan-5g-coronavirus/
title: The Wuhan coronavirus has nothing to do with 5G - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The new coronavirus observed in Wuhan is a virus in the same family of viruses as the common cold, but is a different illness.


text: There are fewer doctors and nurses employed in mental health.
claimant: Ralf Little
claim_date: 2017-11-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-staff-nhs/
title: Mental health staff in the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are around 5,000 fewer nurses specialising mental health between August 2010 and 2017. The number of fully trained doctors specialising in psychiatry and psychotherapy has also gone down by 105 over the same time, but if you count junior doctors the number has increased.


text: When the UK leaves the EU, we can set our own tariffs.
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:
Correct, although we won’t have a completely free hand to set what we want due to World Trade Organisation rules.


text: 69% of the public support onshore wind, which is the most popular renewable energy technology.
claimant: Caroline Flint MP
claim_date: 2015-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/what-do-brits-think-about-wind-farms/
title: What do Brits think about wind farms? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on a survey where 70% of respondents stated they'd be happy to have a wind farm built in their local area. However, a DECC survey showed 65% of respondents supported onshore wind, which was less popular than solar power, wave and tidal power and offshore wind.


claimant: Website
claim_date: 2021-08-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kidnapped-girl-alice/
title: Missing girl ‘news article’ is harvesting Facebook logins - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A girl called Alice was kidnapped when out walking with her family and authorities need help identifying the suspect from a video.

textual_rating:
This is a scam webpage to harvest Facebook login details, which the site asks for to view the video of the “suspect”. This is not a genuine missing person case.


text: We’ve got the slowest growth in Europe.
claimant: Terry Christian
claim_date: 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pound-fallen-since-brexit/
title: The pound has fallen in value since the Brexit vote - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK had the third-slowest year-on-year GDP growth in the EU, based on the latest figures for July-September 2017.


text: A video shows Queen Elizabeth II throwing food at "African" children.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2022-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Queen-didnt-throw-food-at-African-children/
title: Viral video does not show the Queen throwing food at 'African' children - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video was filmed more than 25 years before the Queen’s birth, and actually shows two French women throwing coins at a group of Vietnamese children.


text: 3.8 million people in work are living in poverty.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-most-working-age-people-poverty-also-work/
title: Are most working age people in poverty also in work? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the estimated number in relative poverty in 2014/15. Newer figures since put the figure slightly lower.


text: Wages are rising at the fastest pace in three years.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/real-wage-growth-just-above-0/
title: Real wage growth is just above 0% - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This refers to regular pay, and doesn’t factor in inflation or peoples’ total pay. Total pay in Great Britain is growing in real-terms by 0.2% in the three months to July 2018, the joint fastest pace in 18 months.


text: A member of the House of Lords will receive £323 per day
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lords-allowance-universal-credit/
review_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The House of Lords’ daily allowance is about what Universal Credit pays in a month—but peers don’t get it every day - Full Fact

textual_rating:
£323 is the allowance that members of the Lords can currently claim for each day they do parliamentary work in the House. Not all peers do claim it, however, and none claim it every day.


text: 20 hospitals declared a ‘black alert’ on 11 January.
claimant: Paul Mason
claim_date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-hospital-black-alerts-were-there-week/
title: How many hospital black alerts were there this week? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's according to media reports, which say that 23 hospital trusts in England have reached the highest level on the NHS’s system for saying whether they are under pressure, or are otherwise under serious strain. The Department of Health doesn't use the term 'black alert'.


text: The Amish are an unvaccinated population.
claimant: David Kurten
claim_date: 2023-07-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/amish-vaccines-autism-adhd-gmo/
title: Amish people do get vaccinated - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Vaccine uptake in Amish communities may be lower than the US national average, but significant numbers do vaccinate their children for some diseases.


text: There is more money going into our schools than ever before—a record £43.5 billion by 2020.
claimant: Department for Education
claim_date: 2018-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/school-spending-figures-misleading/
title: Government school spending figures: correct but misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s not a helpful figure as it doesn’t account for inflation or pupil numbers.  Spending per pupil in England fell by 8% in real terms from 2009/10 to 2017/18, and will be held constant from 2017/18 to 2019/20.


text: We have a £100 billion trade deficit with Europe.
claimant: Johan Eliasch
claim_date: 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/what-trade-deficit-and-do-we-have-one-eu/
title: What is a trade deficit and do we have one with the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK was sold just under £70 billion more in goods and services by the rest of the EU than it sold to them in 2017.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/m20-cameras-speed-mobile-phone-smart-motorways/
title: Viral picture is not of cameras that can detect drivers on mobile phones - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are new cameras being trialled on the M20 in Kent that are specifically to detect drivers using mobile phones.

textual_rating:
The cameras in question are not enforcement cameras, or the kind that detect people on phones. They are all lane running motorway cameras that monitor flow of traffic across lanes.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/maui-laser-government-weapon-fire-pictures/
title: Photos don’t show evidence of government ‘laser weapons’ starting wildfires - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Several photos show evidence for claims a powerful government direct energy laser weapon was the cause of several wildfires.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence a government weapon or ‘direct energy laser’ caused any of the recent wildfires. The pictures used as evidence do not show evidence of this.


text: It has cost Haringey Council £186,000 to rename Black Boy Lane as La Rose Lane.
claimant: LBC
claim_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/black-boy-lane-renaming-cost-186/
review_date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Haringey Council says cost of Black Boy Lane name change ‘highly unlikely to exceed £100,000’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The council says £186,000 is an old upper estimate for the potential cost and it is now unlikely to spend more than £100,000, though the final figure will depend on how many residents take up the offer of a £300 inconvenience payment.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/book-didnt-predict-coronavirus/
title: These quotes “predicting” coronavirus are from two different books - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A book published in 1981 said that in 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness would spread across the world, and calling it “Wuhan-400”.

textual_rating:
These lines are from two different books: one is from a book of predictions by a psychic published in 2008 that predicted a pneumonia-like illness, and “Wuhan-400” is a fictional disease from a sci-fi book published in 1981 that bears little similarity to the new Wuhan coronavirus.


text: The fact that you have to reply allows them to access elements of your phone.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-phone-alert-gdpr/
title: Emergency alert phone test on 23 April will not ‘breach GDPR’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
You do need to acknowledge the notification but you do not need to reply. The government says the alert does not access or use personal data.


text: The Queen takes 15% of the crown estate profit each year - around £60m.
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/royal-family-what-are-costs-and-benefits/
title: How does the royal family make money? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Historically the Queen received a grant from the government based on 15% of the income from the Crown Estate, but this has gone up to 25% to pay for refurbishments to Buckingham Palace. In 2019/20 this will equate to about £82 million.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/far-right-extremism-growing-problem/
title: Far right extremism: a growing problem? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Almost 300 people under 18 were flagged up last year under the Prevent Strategy because of concerns about the far right.

textual_rating:
This is correct according to figures from the National Police Chiefs' Council. 1 in 7 under-18s referred were on far-right grounds.


text: The NHS internal market, created in the 1990s, costs around £10 billion a year.
claimant: Chris Williamson
claim_date: 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cost-creating-internal-market-nhs/
title: No-one knows the exact cost or benefit of the NHS internal market in England - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence to prove this. Research that arrives at this figure just estimates increases in admin costs over time, rather than trying to single out what impact the internal market has had.


text: The coronavirus vaccine will be mandatory.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mandatory-vaccine-tracing/
review_date: 2020-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
There is no indication that a Covid-19 vaccine will be mandatory or that those who don’t get it will have their movements restricted - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no suggestion the coronavirus vaccine will be mandatory. No vaccines are mandatory in the UK.


claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/suicides-decrease-coronavirus-matt-hancock/
review_date: 2020-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the number of suicides during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic was down from 10.3 per 100,000 to 6.9 per 100,000.

title:
There’s no evidence the number of people taking their own life fell during the Covid-19 pandemic - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not correct. These figures show deaths registered during this period, not deaths occurring. Most of these suicides took place before 2020, and the ONS has said lower registrations are likely due to the impact of the pandemic on the coroner’s service.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pfizer-covid-vaccine-sex-rules/
title: Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine does not cause birth defects - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You are not meant to have unprotected sex after a second dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine as it could cause birth defects due to genetic manipulation.

textual_rating:
This is not advice for everyone who’s had the Pfizer vaccine. There is no evidence the vaccine causes birth defects. This was a precaution in the vaccine trial, as is standard in many trials, to prevent participants conceiving shortly afterwards, but there was no suspicion of a link with birth defects.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/injured-dog-northern-ireland-fake/
title: Post about injured dog found on ‘side road’ in Northern Ireland is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An injured dog has been found on a side road after a hit-and-run incident in Cookstown, Northern Ireland.

textual_rating:
This is a hoax post. The picture of the dog has been taken from a 2020 news article about an incident involving a dog in Pembrokeshire, Wales.


text: Half of nightclubs in London / nationwide have shut in the past eight or ten years.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2016-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/no-longer-partying-all-night-london-nightclubs-closing/
title: No longer partying all night - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An industry database covering Great Britain recorded 45% fewer nightclubs in 2015 compared to 2005. There’s no specific figure for London.


text: We pay for the NHS with taxes.
claimant: Priti Patel
claim_date: 2018-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-nhs-funded/
title: How is the NHS funded? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The NHS in England is funded mostly through general taxation and National Insurance contributions. A much smaller proportion is collected through patient charges, for things like prescriptions and dentistry.


claimant: Angus Robertson
claim_date: 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/free-trade-outside-eu-customs-union/
title: Free trade outside the EU customs union - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Foreign Secretary’s claim that the UK can leave the EU customs union but still trade freely was described as “impossible” by his Dutch counterpart.

textual_rating:
Broadly correct, although Jeroen Dijsselbloem assumed that Boris Johnson was referring to staying in the EU single market when he talked about maintaining “free trade”. That may not have been the case.


text: The 2016 EU referendum was the largest democratic exercise in the UK’s history.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-not-largest-democratic-exercise/
title: The EU referendum wasn’t quite the largest democratic exercise in UK history - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite. More people voted in the 1992 general election. It also had a higher turnout rate, as did other elections in the 20th century.


text: Experts agree that… prices would rise
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-stronger-prices/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Stronger In on prices - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If we voted to leave the EU that could see prices rise in the short term due to the expectation that the value of the pound would fall. The longer term is more uncertain.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pcr-test-mullis/
title: The inventor of PCR never said it wasn’t designed to detect infectious diseases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Kary B Mullis said that his PCR test was not made to detect any type of infectious disease. It’s designed to pick up a signature of DNA and RNA of the person being tested.

textual_rating:
He never said this. This is a misunderstanding of a quote from him about the limitations of PCR testing in general, to find out about the exact levels of a virus in a sample, not whether or not the sample contained the virus.


claimant: Iain Duncan Smith
claim_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/iain-duncan-smith-15-low-pay/
title: Sir Iain Duncan Smith is wrong to say that only 15% of people ever move above low pay - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Just 15% of people who begin low-paid work in the UK will rise out of low pay during their working lives. This is the worst rate in the developed world.

textual_rating:
This claim is based on EU data from 2004-2011 showing the proportion of workers moving upwards from any skill level over four years, not in their lifetimes. The same data shows 35-40% of people rising out of low pay in the UK over a four-year period. The UK’s rate is low compared with other EU countries, but not the lowest.


text: The government reduced payments for people with disabilities by £30 a week.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/meme-on-government-spending/
title: How much of this meme on government spending is true? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
From April 2017, new Employment and Support Allowance claimants in the group who must attend interviews with an adviser started getting £30 a week less (down to £73.10) than they would have previously. In 2016, this was projected to save between £30 million and £450 million a year between 2017/18 and 2020/21.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fewer-police-cells-are-being-used-hold-people-mental-health-problems/
title: Fewer police cells are being used to hold people with mental health problems - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. This continues a falling trend over several years.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of people being taken to police cells under mental health legislation has more than halved.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-08-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/safe-and-legal-asylum-routes/
title: Current safe and legal routes to the UK do not involve applying for asylum - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government is ensuring that the only way to come to the UK for asylum will be through safe and legal routes.

textual_rating:
There are currently no visa routes available for the purposes of travelling to the UK to claim asylum, and it is not possible to apply for asylum in the UK without being physically present here. The UK does operate some safe and legal routes for the purpose of providing humanitarian and other forms of protection to vulnerable people, but these do not involve being granted asylum by the UK.


text: There has been a steep decline in the number of student nurses following bursary cuts.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2017-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/have-university-applicant-numbers-fallen-2017/
title: Have university applicant numbers fallen in 2017? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of applicants to nursing courses in the UK is down by 19% this year compared to 2016. Students starting on nursing, midwifery and most allied health courses from August will no longer be able to access the NHS bursary scheme in England.


text: Wind generates about 10% of the UK's power
claimant: John Redwood
claim_date: 2016-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-our-energy-comes-wind-mps-disagree/
title: How much of our energy comes from wind? MPs disagree - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's right—it generated 10% of the UK's electricity in 2014/15, although the amount varied within the year.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Alton-Towers-giveaway-pages-false/
title: Facebook pages giving away Alton Towers tickets not associated with theme park - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The pages posting these offers are not associated with Alton Towers.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Alton Towers is offering free complimentary passes to users who follow a link to claim the tickets or comment on and share
the posts.


text: Striking NHS consultants are demanding a 35% pay rise.
claimant: news.sky.com
claim_date: 2023-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bma-consultants-pay-demands/
title: NHS consultants are not demanding a 35% pay rise - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The British Medical Association has confirmed that it is seeking an above inflation pay rise, but not necessarily 35%.


text: About 3-4% of reported rapes are based on false allegations.
claimant: Jo Swinson
claim_date: 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/allegations-rape/
title: Allegations of rape - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no way to know the true figure, and it depends which types of case you include in your definition. Evidence from England and Wales suggests that 3-4% is a reasonable estimate for the number based on malicious complaints.


claimant: Nigel Farage
claim_date: 2019-11-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/businesses-corporation-tax-profits/
title: It's not correct to say two-thirds of businesses make less than £10,000 profit - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nearly two-thirds of British businesses do not make a profit of over £10,000 but are subjected to corporation tax.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Two-thirds of limited companies have corporation tax liabilities of up to £10,000, but fewer than half of British businesses make a profit of less than £10,000.


text: The new daily allowance for peers in the House of Lords is £323.
review_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is correct as of April 2020.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/universal-credit-monthly-allowance-is-more-than-house-of-lords-daily-allowance-for-now/

title:
Universal Credit monthly allowance is more than House of Lords daily allowance – for now - Full Fact


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nicola-bulley-husband-not-arrested-charged-murder/
review_date: 2023-05-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Lancashire Police have confirmed that these claims are completely false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Paul Ansell, the husband of Nicola Bulley who was found dead in Lancashire in February, has been arrested and charged with murder.

title:
Social media posts falsely claim Nicola Bulley’s husband has been arrested and charged with murder - Full Fact


text: 93% of positive tests are false.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/stop-getting-tested-false-positive/
title: This post telling healthy people to stop getting tested is full of inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No test is 100% accurate, and it’s hard to know the precise false positive rate for Covid-19 tests, but all the evidence suggests that the number is extremely low.


text: University applications have fallen by 4%.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2017-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/have-university-applicant-numbers-fallen-2017/
title: Have university applicant numbers fallen in 2017? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of applicants through UCAS to UK higher education institutions has gone down by 4% compared to last year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-tweet-about-helicopter-joy-riders-merseyside-fake/
title: Police tweet about helicopter joy riders in Merseyside is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Merseyside Police confirmed this is not true and the tweet claiming this was fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Four males in Bootle took an air ambulance helicopter without consent (otherwise known as joy-riding).


text: The 2016 EU referendum was the largest democratic vote in British history.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/was-vote-leave-largest-democratic-vote-british-history/
title: Was the vote to leave the “largest democratic vote” in British history? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
More people voted to leave the EU in 2016 than have voted for any other single electoral option in British political history. Options in other votes have received a higher percentage share of the vote, and the 1992 general election had a higher number of total voters.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/monkeypox-simultation-nti/
title: Monkeypox simulation event doesn’t mean outbreak was planned - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A threat preparedness exercise held in 2021, which used monkeypox as the theoretical virus, proves the current outbreak is planned.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence to suggest this is true. Similar theoretical exercises have taken place many times in the past.


claimant: Chris Philp
claim_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/chris-philp-asylum-seekers/
review_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) sends refugees to Rwanda, so it thinks Rwanda is a safe country.

title:
Minister wrong to claim small boat arrivals are down 20% in the first six months of 2023 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
It’s true the UNHCR has transferred refugees from Libya to Rwanda through a program called the Emergency Transit Mechanism. There are significant differences though between this scheme and the one proposed by the UK government, which the UNHCR has raised concerns about.


text: Iain Duncan Smith MP gets free transport.
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 certain types of travel, including within their constituency and between Westminster and their constituency.


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:
Beta-Propiolactone is in vaccines and is known to cause cancer, suspected gastrointestinal, liver, nerve and respiratory, skin and sense organ poison.

textual_rating:
It may be present in trace amounts of some vaccines. It is potentially carcinogenic, but only in much larger amounts than would be in a vaccine.


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
textual_rating: We can find no evidence of this being used in vaccines in the UK.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tri(n) butylphosphate is in vaccines and is potentially damaging to the kidneys and the nervous system.


text: A document on the UK government website says the third wave of deaths will come from the vaccine.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/third-wave-model-vaccine/
title: The government hasn’t said the vaccine will cause a third wave of deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Modelling suggests that when a third wave occurs, hospitalisations and deaths will mostly be in those who’ve been vaccinated. This is because so many vulnerable people will have been vaccinated by then, not because the vaccine is harming them.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/pepper-not-a-snake/
title: You don’t need to worry about that video claiming to show a snake in a pepper - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Various social media posts claim to show “the world’s tiniest poisonous snake” or a killer worm in a green pepper.

textual_rating:
It doesn’t show this. The creature is probably a nematode parasite that is unlikely to be harmful to humans.


text: The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine contains human foetal cells.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/AstraZeneca-vaccine-foetal-cells-chimpanzee-virus/
review_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
There are no human cells in the AstraZeneca vaccine, and it won’t give you a chimpanzee virus - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is a process involved in producing the vaccine which uses clones of cells which were originally derived from an aborted human foetus. But as the cells are clones, they are not actually from a foetus themselves.


text: No healthy child has died from Covid-19 in the UK.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2021-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mail-understates-covid-children-risk/
title: Daily Mail understates the risks of Covid-19 to children - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Six under 18s with no underlying health conditions died from Covid-19 in England before the end of February 2021.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/15-minute-neighbourhoods-leaflet-free-movement/
title: Viral 15 minute neighbourhoods leaflet is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
15 minute neighbourhoods involve staying within 15 minutes of your home and the restriction of free movement and being monitored by surveillance cameras. They are being trialled in several places in the UK.

textual_rating:
15 minute cities are an urban planning concept designed to give people access to key services within a 15 minute walk or cycle. It does not limit free movement. This has been conflated with a trial traffic scheme in Oxford that will limit how often people can drive down several key roads using cameras and fines, which has proved controversial.


text: 94% of people in Wales don’t want independence.
claimant: Nia Griffith
claim_date: 2017-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/welsh-views-independence/
title: Welsh views on independence - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
On average 6% of people in Wales said they wanted independence when presented with a range of options on how Wales should be governed. This is comparing polls which ask a consistent question over the last five years. Other polls have asked slightly different questions and found a higher proportion in favour of independence, but it’s always in the minority.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/minimum-service-strikes-compare-EU/
review_date: 2023-02-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Proposed new minimum service level legislation brings Great Britain in line with other European nations such as France, Spain, Italy and Ireland.

title:
How does the government’s minimum service level legislation compare to strike laws in other European countries? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
It is true these countries have minimum service level requirements, but the way they set minimum service levels is in many cases different to what’s proposed in Great Britain.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/video-woman-catching-seagull-london/
title: Video of woman stuffing seagull into bag is missing context - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video of a woman catching and stuffing a seagull into a small bag may show the birds being harmed or caught as food.

textual_rating:
The video, shared widely since 2019, shows volunteers catching the bird in order to tag it  for research purposes.


text: Seventeen countries have banned the AstraZeneca vaccine outside of the UK.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/blood-clot-az-ban/
title: 17 countries haven’t ‘banned’ the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not the case. At the time of writing, 17 countries in Europe have temporarily stopped giving it out whilst waiting for a review from the European Medicines Agency. They have not “banned” it.


text: School standards in Scotland are falling.
claimant: Damian Green
claim_date: 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/scottish-schools/
title: Scottish schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct according to various sets of pupil tests, although international tests suggest that standards are improving in some subjects.


claimant: Nick Clegg
claim_date: 2017-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-trade-anglosphere-EU/
title: Trade with the English-speaking world - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Trade with the EU is more than double that with Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and the USA combined.


text: The UK government has licensed £4.7bn of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Yemen war started.
claimant: Hicham Yezza
claim_date: 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/uk-has-licensed-least-47bn-arms-exports-saudi-arabia-start-yemen-war/
review_date: 2018-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The UK has licensed at least £4.7bn of arms exports to Saudi Arabia since the start of the Yemen War - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The UK has licensed at least £4.7bn of arms exports to Saudi Arabia and £860m to its coalition partners. These don’t include all licences but also not all licences result in goods ultimately being exported.


text: National Insurance contributions will increase by 1.25% from 6 April 2022.
claimant: gov.uk
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/martin-lewis-national-insurance-government/
title: Government website makes percentage error on National Insurance rise - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is not a percentage increase on existing National Insurance rates, it is a 1.25 percentage point increase applied to existing National Insurance rates. For many, this will mean a rise of more than 10%.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/mirandas-rights-will-terrorism-act-be-changed/
title: Miranda’s rights: will the Terrorism Act be changed? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Parliament will have to change the Terrorism Act after judges declared that parts of it are incompatible with human rights.

textual_rating:
The ruling doesn't mean that the law is no longer in force or that Parliament has to revise it. A declaration of incompatibility is a formal signal from judges that an Act should be changed. It generally is, but doesn't have to be.


text: Delays to using a defibrillator puts “heart attack victims” at higher risk of death.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-heart-attack-cardiac-arrest-defibrillator/
title: Telegraph mixes up heart attacks and cardiac arrests - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Defibrillators are used in cardiac arrest, not heart attacks. People who have had heart attacks need urgent medical treatment, but not CPR.


text: Covid-19 vaccines don’t meet the legal definition of a vaccine.
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:
It is unclear what legal definition is being referred to, but Covid-19 vaccines meet the legal criteria for medicinal products.


claimant: Vernon Coleman
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Vernon-Coleman-Trafalgar-Square-conspiracy-claims-false/
title: Trafalgar Square “Freedom Rally” speech littered with false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 vaccines have killed 18,928 people in the EU, more than 11,405 people in the US, 1,470 people in the UK and 5,522 people in Scotland.

textual_rating:
Half of these figures are incorrect and none of the reports they come from link the total number of reported deaths to vaccines.


text: Tuesday 19 July was the London Fire Brigade’s busiest day since WWII.
claimant: London Fire Brigade
claim_date: 2022-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/london-fire-brigade-busiest-day-ww2-heatwave/
title: Did the heatwave see London Fire Brigade’s busiest day since WWII? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not based on data held since the end of the war, but rather an analysis carried out by the LFB based on the number of calls received, the number of incidents attended, the scale and intensity of the fires and the number of fire engines called out to incidents.


text: The English countryside is too white and needs more ethnic minorities, says government report.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/countryside-too-white/
title: A government report didn’t say the countryside was “too white” - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The report didn’t say the countryside was “too white”. It said ethnic minorities should be encouraged to visit national parks and other areas of outstanding natural beauty. It also said minorities should have better representation on these organisations’ boards.


text: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s home renovations cost £2.4 million in taxpayer funds.
claimant: BBC
claim_date: 2019-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/frogmore-cottage/
title: Was Harry and Meghan’s home renovated with taxpayer money? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The renovations did cost this much, and the money came directly out of public funds. But taxpayers aren’t financially worse off because these renovations happened.


text: It took 51 days for the UK to go from announcing its first Covid-19 death to 20,319.
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:
Correct. The first patient who died having tested positive for Covid-19 was announced on 5 March. The total deaths was 20,319 on 24 April.


claimant: Iain Duncan Smith
claim_date: 2022-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/iain-duncan-smith-rwanda-asylum-seekers/
title: Iain Duncan Smith wrong to say successful asylum seekers would return from Rwanda - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If asylum seekers sent to Rwanda for processing are found to be genuine refugees they will come back to the UK.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The terms of the UK’s partnership with Rwanda mean that people sent there will not return to the UK, unless the UK specifically requests it.


text: The total number of deaths from Covid-19 in Italy rose from 233 to 4,032 over about two weeks.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/deaths-covid-19-uk-italy/
title: These numbers about Covid-19 deaths in the UK and Italy are broadly accurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. As reported by the Italian government, the number of deaths from Covid-19 rose from 233 on 7 March to 4,032 on 20 March.


claimant: Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary
claim_date: 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/hospitals-red-size-nhs-provider-deficit/
title: Hospitals in the red: the size of the NHS provider deficit - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The NHS had a deficit of over £800 million last year and is predicted to have a £2 billion deficit this year.

textual_rating:
This is correct for NHS providers. It stood at £830 million last year and it's expected to rise, with some forecasting £2 billion or more in 2015/16.


text: In the last eight years, the “Building schools for the future” project has been stopped.
claimant: Chuka Umunna MP
claim_date: 2018-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/sure-start-schools-tuition-fees/
title: Sure Start, school building and tuition fees: the Conservative and Coalition record - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It was stopped in 2010 and replaced with a new scheme in 2011. The old scheme aimed to rebuild and refurbish all secondary schools in England. The new scheme is targeted at “school buildings in the worst condition across the country”.


text: 85% of schools are good and outstanding schools, vs 68% in 2010.
claimant: Damian Hinds
claim_date: 2019-04-29T00:00:00Z
title: Government resurfaces misleading claim about good or outstanding schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/government-resurfaces-misleading-claim-about-good-or-outstanding-schools/

textual_rating:
This refers to England, and doesn’t acknowledge changes to inspection practices. A significant chunk of pupils are in schools that haven’t been inspected since 2010.


text: The government will build 40 new hospitals.
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:
Six hospitals in England are getting the money to upgrade their buildings within the next five years. Up to 38 hospitals are getting money to develop plans for their hospitals between 2025 and 2030, but not to actually begin any building work.


text: UK public spending is expected to fall to US levels by 2019.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2015-07-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-public-spending-down-us-levels-201819/
title: UK public spending down to US levels by 2018/19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
As a proportion of GDP, UK spending is forecast to be similar to the US by 2019. The summer 2015 Budget in the UK set this in motion.


text: Japanese-owned companies employ 140,000 people in the UK.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/japanese-owned-companies-uk/
title: Japanese-owned companies in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true, according to estimates from the Japanese government, although we haven’t yet been able to look into these in detail as they aren’t published in English.


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
text:
According to the vaccine manufacturer’s own vaccine package insert, measles is the number one side effect of the MMR.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. “Atypical measles” is mentioned as an adverse reaction (which is not the same as a side effect) of the MMR vaccine used in the US and one of the UK MMR vaccines. People given a certain type of measles jab in the 1960s and 70s could get “atypical measles” if they were exposed to a certain measles strain afterwards. The other UK MMR vaccine brand lists “atypical measles” as a “possible side effect” as some people who were given the MMR got atypical measles if they also got the old measles jab.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines have killed 3,362 people in less than four months.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/VAERS-reporting-america/
title: Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused 3,362 deaths in America - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the number of deaths that were reported in individuals in the US who recently had a Covid-19 vaccine, but there’s no proof they were caused by the vaccine.


text: The Far East economy is “going gangbusters”.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/global-economic-growth/
title: Comparing economic growth across the world - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The GDP of East Asia grew by 5.6% in real terms in 2017 and Southeast Asia grew by 5.3%, according to the IMF. It forecasts growth in East Asia to slow slightly in coming years.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2019-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/labour-dental-costs/
title: Labour draws unsubstantiated link between dental costs and hospital admissions - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One in five patients delay going to the dentist because they can’t afford to see one - meaning 100,000 end up in hospital with preventable problems with their teeth.

textual_rating:
It’s not possible to connect all these cases directly to people not being able to afford dental care. The “one in five” figure is also a decade old and we don’t have newer figures.


text: We have cut further education budgets by 50%.
claimant: David Lammy
claim_date: 2018-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/spending-adult-skills/
title: Spending for adult skills fell by 40% between 2010 and 2015 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Spending on core adult skills fell by 40% in England between 2010/11 and 2015/16, taking inflation into account. Changes to funding make recent comparisons more complex but the overall picture is that non-apprenticeship core funding is set to fall slightly between 2016/17 and 2019/20, and adult apprenticeship funding is set to significantly rise.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Google-Meet-cameras-on-satire-account/
title: Google Meet is not introducing a button to turn on all cameras at once - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A screenshot shows a new button on Google Meet that can turn on all participants’ cameras instantly.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine screenshot. It comes from a satirical account, and Google has confirmed it has no plans to create any such feature.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2022-06-18T00:00:00Z
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
text:
Nine percent of parents surveyed say their children have started self-harming in response to the cost of living crisis.

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 a survey by the Childhood Trust in which the proportion of all parents saying this was more like 3%.


text: Cafes, bars, restaurants and shops are closed.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-list-uk-lockdown-rules-not-right/
title: Viral list of UK lockdown rules is not right - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Cafes and restaurants can still provide takeaway services, and some shops remain open. Bars are closed.


text: If you collect a parcel at the Post Office you need a driving licence or a passport.
claimant: Gillian Keegan MP
claim_date: 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/voter-photo-id-parcels/
title: You don’t usually need photo ID to pick up a parcel - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
You don’t need photographic ID to pick up a parcel from the Post Office but you do need some form of ID.


text: Nurses have been using food banks.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-nurses-are-using-foodbanks/
title: How many nurses are using foodbanks? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Media reports show that at least some individual nurses and trainees have visited food banks. We don’t have solid evidence of the scale of use.


text: The “hostile environment” was invented under a Labour Home Secretary.
claimant: Michael Gove
claim_date: 2022-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/michael-gove-hostile-environment-labour/
title: Did Labour invent the ‘hostile environment’? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Labour used the term in relation to enforcing immigration rules while in power. The Conservatives significantly expanded the scope of policies associated with the phrase.


text: Tariffs on exporting lamb and sheep to the EU will be 40% in a no deal Brexit scenario.
claimant: Nick Robinson
claim_date: 2019-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/lamb-japan/
title: Lamb exports to Japan aren’t due to EU trade deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The tariff level varies depending on which lamb or sheep product is being exported. But 40% is within that range.


text: Almost all European countries have a trade surplus with us, apart from five.
claimant: Jon Moynihan
claim_date: 2016-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/where-does-eu-export/
title: Where does the EU export to? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Over the last ten years all EU countries other than three sold more to us than they bought—Ireland, Luxembourg, and Malta.


text: Filling up your car in hot weather could cause the fuel tank to explode.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2016-05-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fuel-tank-car-heatwave-explode/
title: Your fuel tank won’t explode if you fill it during a heatwave - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Fuel systems in cars are designed to cope with summer heat. The auto-combustion point of fuel is much, much higher than a car’s fuel tank could feasibly reach.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/rwanda-david-blunkett-boris-johnson/
title: Did David Blunkett propose sending asylum seekers abroad in 2004? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
On the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, David Blunkett proposed the policy first in 2004.

textual_rating:
Proposals for would-be asylum seekers to the EU to be processed in centres outside the EU were pitched to member states by then-Home Secretary David Blunkett in 2003. But those plans were quite different to the government’s new plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.


text: The number of apprenticeship starts has fallen by 70% over the last quarter.
claimant: Chuka Umunna
claim_date: 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/apprenticeships/
title: Has the number of people starting apprenticeships fallen? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, apprenticeship starts in England in May to July this year were 72% lower than in February to April. Comparing neighbouring quarters isn’t always appropriate because differences can be due to the time of year. The fall is 59% comparing to May to July last year.


url: https://fullfact.org/health/viral-voice-message-ambulance-trust/
title: This viral voice message about ambulances shared on WhatsApp is inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A voice recording on WhatsApp claims there will be 900 deaths a day at the peak of the new coronavirus outbreak, one third will be children with no underlying health conditions, ambulances won’t be sent to people struggling to breathe, and all ice rinks are now being used as mortuaries.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, where the person in the recording suggests they work, and Public Health England have confirmed the information is inaccurate.


text: The NHS has warned people should not shake hands to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-hasnt-advised-people-stop-shaking-hands-avoid-wuhan-coronavirus/
title: The NHS hasn’t advised people to stop shaking hands to avoid the Wuhan coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Although some doctors have suggested this may be a good idea, no advice around shaking hands has been issued by the government


text: Holidays are being deliberately ruined. This is part of the plan to stop people from travelling.
claimant: James Delingpole
claim_date: 2022-06-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/airline-staff-shortages/
title: No evidence of a ‘plan’ to cause travel disruption - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can find no evidence that travel disruption in the UK and elsewhere is deliberate. It seems to be the result of a number of factors, including staff shortages.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Brexit-EU-fishing-fuel-subsidies/
title: Brexit hasn’t quadrupled the cost of fuel for fishing boats - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
UK fishing crews will see the price of fuel for their boats more than quadruple due to the removal of EU subsidies post-Brexit.

textual_rating:
This has not come to pass. HMRC’s guidance on fuel duty for fishers has remained materially the same pre and post-Brexit.


text: The NHS pays £4 billion annually in rent to private investors because of deals under Labour.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pfi-nhs-cost-labour/
title: Labour hospital and acute care PFI contracts in England cost £1.4 billion in 2017/18 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. In 2017/18 hospital and acute sector PFIs in England that started under Labour cost £1.4 billion.


text: £37 billion was spent on Test and Trace.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-and-trace-nasa/
title: NASA Mars mission would cost much more than two years of NHS Test and Trace - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was how much was budgeted for its first two years. It has probably cost just under £30 billion in that period, though we don’t have an exact figure for 2021/22 yet.


text: 58% of coronavirus deaths in Scotland are from care facilities.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Scotland-coronavirus-care-home-deaths/
title: It’s not true that 58% of Covid-19 deaths in Scotland were in care homes - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. The report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which this figure comes from, says that in May 45% of Covid-19 deaths were in care homes.


text: Use of public transport is only about 5% of its usual numbers.
claimant: Grant Shapps
claim_date: 2020-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-public-transport-grant-shapps/
title: Public transport use higher than transport minister claimed - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. When Mr Shapps said this, passenger levels on National Rail, London Underground and non-London buses had all been above this level for several weeks.


claimant: Iain Duncan Smith, David Campbell Bannerman, Martin Howe, Jon Moynihan, Rebecca Ryan
claim_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/gatt-24-again/
title: GATT 24: new argument, same old problems - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A three-page trade agreement would mean little obvious would change in terms of our trade when we leave the EU.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. This would be the most basic possible trade agreement. The UK and EU would lose alignment on regulation of goods, with significant non-tariff barriers to trade, and tariffs on trade in services.


claimant: Instagram account
claim_date: 2022-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/saudi-straight-pride-month/
title: Saudi Arabia has not announced plans for an ‘International Straight Pride Month’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The BBC did not tweet this, and Saudi Arabia has announced no such plans.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The BBC tweeted Saudi Arabia has announced its intention to hold “International Straight Pride Month” during June of 2022.


text: The EU admits its budget will collapse without financial contribution from the UK.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/EU-budget-collapse/
title: The EU hasn’t said Brexit will collapse the EU budget - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The EU is preparing a draft budget for 2021-2027, involving increased contributions and decreased spending in some areas to account for the UK’s departure.


text: A disproportionate number of women have ended up in prison for failing to pay their TV licence fee.
claimant: Liz Truss
claim_date: 2022-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/liz-truss-tv-licence-prison/
title: Do a disproportionate number of women end up in prison for failing to pay TV licences? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
You cannot be sent to prison for failing to pay a TV licence fee, only for failing to pay a fine in connection with a conviction for not paying the fee—and the latest available figures for England and Wales show no one was jailed for this in 2020 or 2021. Women are more likely than men to be convicted of not paying the fee, but the number of men jailed since 1995 after failing to pay fines is twice the number of women.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italian-trucks-coronavirus-victims/
review_date: 2020-03-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
This picture shows trucks carrying dead bodies of Covid-19 victims and the accompanying post implies it is in Italy.

title:
These trucks aren’t carrying the bodies of Covid-19 victims, and the picture wasn’t taken in Italy - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This picture was taken in Paris and the trucks are not carrying dead bodies. However, Italy has had to use military trucks to move bodies during the crisis.


text: UK residents now have to pay dozens of different taxes, none of which existed 100 years ago.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/hmrc-tax-100-years-ago/
title: Income tax, fuel tax and inheritance tax all existed 100 years ago - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t true. Income tax, which is listed in the post, was first introduced in 1799. And there are a number of other taxes mentioned that aren’t in place in the UK.


text: You don’t have to follow the government’s rules after being vaccinated.
claimant: Public Health England
claim_date: 2021-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/easy-read-vaccine-consent-form/
title: Children should still follow Covid-19 rules after vaccination - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was a mistake in an ‘easy read’ consent form for 12-15 year olds. The form has now been updated to make it clear that you should still follow rules and advice to prevent the spread of Covid-19 after being vaccinated.


text: Spending on disability benefits will be higher every year up to 2020 than it was in 2010.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/disability-benefits-spending-rise/
title: Disability benefits: spending on the rise? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct in cash terms. Taking inflation into account, there will still be a rise in spending, although not in each consecutive year.


text: No one who sat in a restaurant without a mask to eat their meal died.
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:
There is no evidence to say that no one who took part in Eat Out to Help Out did not contract Covid-19 and later die.


text: 103 NHS walk-in centres have closed or been downgraded 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:
We don’t know exactly, as this information isn’t collected centrally. Research from an NHS regulator and from campaign group 38 Degrees suggests more than 90 have been closed or downgraded.


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
text:
The government are lifting the living wage by the biggest ever amount, up to £8.72, and it will go up to £10.50.

textual_rating:
The national living wage set by the government is set to rise to £8.72 in April, the largest rise since it was put in place in 2016. It was also announced at last year’s Conservative party conference that it would rise to £10.50 within the next five years.


text: Labour would borrow one trillion to cover their promises.
claimant: Giles Watling
claim_date: 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-labour-borrow-trillion-pounds/
title: Would Labour borrow a trillion pounds? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The original claim is actually that Labour would spend (not borrow) a trillion pounds to cover their manifesto commitments. The figure hasn't been confirmed, and we don't know what time period it covers, and whether it refers to spending increases compared to now, or total spending.


text: Pensioner poverty has fallen considerably since the 1970s and 80s.
claimant: Damian Green
claim_date: 2017-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pensioners-poverty/
title: Pensioners in poverty - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. On the relative measure, pensioner poverty has fallen from peaks of 40% in those decades to about 16% now. Absolute poverty has also fallen long term.


text: 33,000 people are employed by the European Commission, and 7,500 by the Parliament.
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:
Roughly correct, although that’s not all staff employed by the EU. The total administrative staff is around 60,000.


text: An image shows members of the Nazi party turning their backs in the German parliament.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/historic-picture-nazis-reichstag/
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That is what the picture shows, although some descriptions have details wrong.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
An image on social media does show Nazi party members turning their backs during a speech - Full Fact


text: Japan is not accepting refugees.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/japan-not-accept-refugees/
title: Claims that Japan does not accept any refugees are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Although the number has always been low, Japan does accept a small number of refugees each year and many more are allowed to remain on humanitarian grounds.


text: The influenza vaccine contains mRNA like some Covid-19 vaccines.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mrna-not-in-flu-vaccines/
title: Current flu vaccines don’t use mRNA technology - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The flu vaccines currently in use in the UK do not use mRNA technology, although trials of mRNA flu vaccines are ongoing.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-01-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-toby-carvery-for-two-post/
title: Facebook post offering free Toby Carvery meals isn’t genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Toby Carvery is sending free “Carvery for two” offers to those who share and comment on a Facebook post.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine offer. Mitchells & Butlers, which owns the Toby Carvery restaurant chain, said it was aware of fake social media posts being created in its name.


claimant: Suella Braverman
claim_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/suella-braverman-100-million-claim/
review_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are 100 million people around the world who could qualify for protection under our current laws, and they are “coming here”.

title:
Who are the 100 million displaced people Suella Braverman said could qualify for UK protection? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This figure is based on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) estimate of the global number of forcibly displaced people. The majority of these people remain in their own countries, and most refugees stay in neighbouring countries.
It’s not clear how many of the 100 million would be granted asylum or other protection in the UK if they were to apply. Around 90,000 people applied for asylum in the UK in 2022.


text: There are a record 6,000 more doctors and a record 12,000 more nurses than a year ago
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/doctors-nurses-increase-coronavirus/
title: Increase in doctors and nurses does not include Covid-19 returners - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, according to workforce statistics published by NHS Digital for March 2020. It does not include returners or trainees who joined the workforce during the Covid-19 pandemic.


text: A newly qualified nurse will typically earn over £31,000 a year.
claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/steve-barclay-new-nurse-31000/
title: Steve Barclay’s figure for new nurses’ pay includes extra earnings - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure includes extra earnings, such as overtime and unsocial hours pay. Basic pay for a newly qualified nurse this year would be about £27,000.


text: The number of British-born workers has fallen.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/reports-employment-figures-are-accurate-not-whole-picture/
title: Reports on employment figures are accurate, but not the whole picture - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The estimates suggest this happened, but it’s uncertain. The changes in the ONS’ best estimates weren’t big enough for us to be sure there was any real change.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/there-no-hiv-covid-19-vaccines/
title: There is no HIV in the Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is a decrease in the amount of saline in the second vaccine dose compared to the first and an increase in the levels of harmful ingredients.

textual_rating:
The MHRA told Full Fact that  there is “no difference in composition between first and second doses”.


claimant: Suella Braverman
claim_date: 2022-05-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/suella-braverman-question-time-1600/
title: Was the Attorney General right to say that a single mother will be £1,600 better off? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A single mother on the National Living Wage, with two children, who’s renting, will actually be £1,600 better off in 2022 compared to 2021 because of recent government changes.

textual_rating:
Ms Braverman hasn’t explained the figure she gave, which means it’s impossible to say for sure how reliable it is. But it appears similar to a figure the Treasury has previously used. That referred to the beneficial effect to a mother of some changes in tax and government support. It did not mean that the mother will necessarily be better off overall in 2022.


claimant: Richard Bacon
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
text:
Around 40% of students at universities such as Oxford went to private school. 7% of the population go to private school.

textual_rating:
Correct, around 44% of young, full-time Oxford undergraduate students in 2015/16 had gone to an independent school. Around 7% of all English school pupils went to an independent school in 2017.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/klaus-schwab-vaccines/
title: mRNA vaccines aren’t gene editing and don’t alter your DNA - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The mRNA in certain vaccines, like Pfizer and Moderna, has no way of altering your DNA.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you’ve taken an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, your genetic make-up has been changed, and this is confirmed in a video of World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab.


text: The UK parliament has 1458 members.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/UK-EU-parliament/
review_date: 2020-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
These figures for the size of House Of Commons, House of Lords, and the EU parliament are all correct - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The combined total of the House of Commons and House of Lords is 1458 if you include recently announced Life Peers.


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
text:
Men are less likely to develop breast cancer because antiperspirant deodorant is applied to the hair rather than directly on to the skin.

textual_rating:
Men are less likely to develop breast cancer due to  differences in the amount and type of breast tissue in men. There are also important hormonal differences between men and women which relate to this.


text: The UK spends 0.7% of its GDP on aid, which is more than any other G7 country.
claimant: Battle for Britain
claim_date: 2018-06-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-money-does-uk-spend-aid-compared-rest-g7/
title: How much money does the UK spend on aid compared to the rest of the G7? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct for the UK in 2017, though it’s based on a slightly different figure that includes overseas income. Germany spends just under 0.7%, but slightly less than the UK.


text: Mr Choudhury’s fine was paid out of his benefits.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/burning-poppies-mosque-bacon/
review_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Two men did go to prison for throwing bacon at a mosque, while a man was fined for burning poppies - Full Fact

textual_rating:
It was reported at the time that Mr Choudhury received benefits and had a part-time job. We don’t know who paid the fine.


text: The Queen was found guilty in a missing children case.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/queen-missing-children-conspiracy/
title: The Queen was not involved in disappearance of Indigenous children from Canadian school - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There's no evidence for this. This claim appears to be a conspiracy theory stemming from real cases involving missing children who attended Indigenous residential schools in Canada.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/more-context-needed-these-facts-about-immigration/
title: More context is needed for these “facts about immigration” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Most studies suggest that immigration has no significant effect on overall employment, or British unemployment.

textual_rating:
That’s a fair general reflection of UK research. Most studies show little or no effect on employment or unemployment of UK-born workers, but it can depend on the state of the economy.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nadine-dorries-fake-tweet-dog-warm/
title: Nadine Dorries didn’t say people should use cats and dogs to keep warm this winter - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This tweet is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nadine Dorries said that “as a nation of animal lovers” we should use cats and dogs to keep warm this winter.


claimant: Institute for Fiscal Studies
claim_date: 2016-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/nhs-eu-funding-and-vat-possible-effects-leaving-eu/
title: NHS, EU funding and VAT: possible effects of leaving the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
After leaving the EU and replacing EU funding, the UK will have additional savings to spend on priorities such as the NHS.

textual_rating:
Most economists forecast that savings on the EU membership fee would be outweighed by slower economic growth. Without raising taxes or borrowing more, the government would have less money to spend on public services.


text: Asymptomatic carriers of Covid do not spread disease.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/orange-county-board-meeting/
title: Video shares falsehoods about face masks and asymptomatic spread of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t true. As the pandemic has gone on, it has become clear that asymptomatic transmission can occur.


text: Last year some nurses starting their career got a pay rise of over 15%.
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:
We don’t know exactly what Mr Hancock is referring to here but it doesn’t seem right. Nurses towards the lower end of the pay scale may have seen a cash terms salary increase of 3% to 12% between 2019/20 and 2020/21. These figures are lower when you factor inflation in.


text: By 2020 the government will have borrowed more than all Labour governments put together.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/government-borrowing/
title: Government borrowing - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s true if you add up borrowing under Labour governments since 1945, whether or not you adjust for inflation. But it isn’t a fair comparison because the UK economy and the government have both got bigger.


text: The government has cut police spending by 25% over the last five years.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2017-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/happened-police-budgets/
title: What's happened to police budgets? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Direct government grants to police forces have fallen by 25% over the last five years. Funding fell by 18% overall because forces were able to raise more money locally.


text: The UK’s pension age is going up.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/polish-pensions-are-not-directly-subsidised-uk/
title: Polish pensions are not directly subsidised by the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, the state pension age in the UK is rising from 65 to 66 for both men and women between March 2019 and October 2020. It will then rise again, from 66 to 67, between 2026 and 2028, and then from 67 to 68 between 2044 and 2046.


text: A video shows the devastation caused by an explosion in a Ukraine city.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/video-of-explosion-aftermath-is-from-lebanon-in-2020-not-ukraine/
title: Video of explosion aftermath is from Lebanon in 2020, not Ukraine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video shows the aftermath of an accidental explosion in Lebanon in 2020 and doesn’t relate to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.


text: The government is giving the NHS 1%. Under Labour it was 4% every year.
claimant: Dawn Butler
claim_date: 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-much-money-does-nhs-need/
title: How much money does the NHS need and how much is it actually getting? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Spending on the NHS in England has increased in real terms by an average of around 1% a year since 2010. Since the NHS was established spending increases have averaged 4% per year.


text: More than 450 mosques have opened in London.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/london-islam-mosques-sharia-violent/
title: Islam in London: factchecking the viral image - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct. There are probably around 477 mosques, Islamic centres, prayer rooms and halls for hire in London.


text: There’s over a million job vacancies–more than there are unemployed people who might fill them.
claimant: Chloe Smith
claim_date: 2023-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/chloe-smith-express-unemployment/
title: The UK doesn’t have more job vacancies than unemployed people - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. In the latest period with data on both measures there was a three-month average of 1.154 million job vacancies in the UK, and 1.27 million unemployed people.


text: 3.4% of patients waited more than 12 hours in Wales compared with 1.3% in England.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/accident-emergency-england-wales/
title: A&E performance: England v Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. That’s the percentage of A&E patients who spent more than 12 hours in A&E, from arrival to departure in 2016/17.


text: The vaccine is causing new daily cases of Covid-19 in the UK, or at least isn’t stopping them.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/
title: Vaccines have not caused daily cases to increase - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We have real world evidence and data from trials showing that the vaccines do reduce your chances of catching Covid-19, and vastly decrease your chances of getting seriously ill and dying from it.


url: https://fullfact.org/health/uk-europe-covid-comparison/
title: The UK has had one of Europe’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A group of 43 European countries and territories have far more people than the UK, but fewer Covid-19 deaths.

textual_rating:
This is correct. Although the list excludes other European countries with high death tolls, such as France, Italy, Spain and Belgium.


text: Pregnant women are 22 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than other women.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/express-covid-risk-pregnancy/
title: The Express muddles up the dangers of Covid-19 in pregnancy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This muddles the results of a study, which in fact found that Covid increases the risk of death in women who are pregnant.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-eu-expansion/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on EU expansion - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
When the five new countries in the process of joining the EU join, they will have the same rights as other members.

textual_rating:
They would end up with the same rights. There might be some restrictions on workers from new countries at first.


text: A speech by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been reported as a hate incident.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/hate-incidents-arent-same-hate-crimes/
title: Hate incidents aren’t the same as hate crimes - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s true, but if someone has reported it to the police and given that reason then they have to record it as ‘hate incident’. They only record a ‘hate crime’ if they think something illegal has probably happened.


text: The NHS has been judged the best healthcare system in the world.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/has-nhs-been-judged-best-healthcare-system-world/
title: Has the NHS been judged the best healthcare system in the world? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It depends who you ask and what they’re judging to be important for a healthcare system. One report judged the UK’s healthcare the best of eleven rich countries, but other reports say the UK does much worse. None we’ve seen are specific to the NHS.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/claims-about-changes-pfizer-vaccine-children-miss-important-details/
title: Claims about changes to Pfizer vaccine for children miss important details - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pfizer has changed the formulation of its Covid-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11 to include an ingredient used to stabilise heart attack patients.

textual_rating:
The FDA recently approved the inclusion of tromethamine in paediatric doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. It was included to extend the vaccine’s shelf life, and is not currently used in the UK. It is used to treat a condition which may result from illness following a heart attack.


text: Austerity is to blame for 130,000 preventable deaths in the UK.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/130000-preventable-deaths-austerity/
title: We can’t explicitly link 130,000 preventable deaths to austerity - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A think tank estimated that 130,000 deaths due to preventable risk factors wouldn’t have occurred in England if pre-2012 trends had continued between 2012 and 2017. It didn’t directly attribute this to austerity. It said that while spending reductions to public services were part of the reason for this, wider policy issues were also important.


text: An Eastern diamondback rattlesnake has been found in various locations in the UK and Ireland.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/eastern-diamondback-rattlesnake-found-hoax/
title: Reports of deadly rattlesnake found in UK and Ireland are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The image of the snake, which has been shared in multiple locations around the UK and Ireland, is at least two years old and appears to have been taken in the US.


text: Contaminated food from takeaways and restaurants is spreading norovirus.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2020-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/takeaways-spread-norovirus/
title: Takeaways and restaurants are responsible for 8% of norovirus cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
New research estimates that restaurants and takeaways are responsible for around 8% of UK norovirus cases.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-disappeared-lie-covid-deaths/
title: Covid death rates were not a ‘lie’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The authorities lied about the Covid-19 death rates. Initially it was any death within 60 days of a positive test then 28 days.

textual_rating:
The UK and devolved governments have counted Covid-19 deaths reliably since early in the pandemic by tracking mentions of the disease on death certificates. More immediate measures of the number of deaths following positive tests were also used. None of this means the authorities were lying.


claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/conservative-woman-vaccine-scientist-spike-protein/
title: Claims that Covid vaccine spike proteins are harmful are unevidenced - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The spike protein generated by a Covid-19 vaccine can leave the site of injection and enter the bloodstream, which could possibly be causing deaths and vaccine injuries.

textual_rating:
There is some evidence that the spike proteins generated by the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine leave the site of injection. There is also evidence that the spike protein on the actual virus can damage cells that line blood vessels.  However, the two different spike proteins behave very differently in the body, and so the assumption that spike proteins generated by the vaccine could also harm cells in the bloodstream is unevidenced.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-not-in-water-supply/
title: Boris Johnson mistakenly said that Covid-19 could be monitored through the water supply - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson said that an alert system for Covid-19 could involve detecting the infection in the water supply.

textual_rating:
It is true that Boris Johnson said this, however, he misspoke according to his spokesperson. He was referring to a potential scheme that could detect genetic material from the virus in sewage: not in the water supply.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cabinet-office-fake-letter/
title: Fake letter from Cabinet Office spreads on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The letter is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A leaked letter shows the government has a deliberate plan to damage the economy with the help of a public health campaign.


text: The UK is lobbying to reduce EU duties on Chinese steel.
claimant: BBC Question Time
claim_date: 2016-02-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/is-uk-calling-for-lower-eu-duties-chinese-steel/
title: Is the UK calling for EU duties for Chinese steel? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK has objected to raising duties on Chinese steel in the past, and is thought to be a supporter of China being granted ‘Market Economy Status’ which may result in lower duties in the future. At present it backs the duties currently imposed by the EU.


text: The effects of the vaccines are not reversible.
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:
It is unclear how long the protection given by Covid-19 vaccines lasts against the disease. Most side effects observed are mild and pass within a few days.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/literacy-numeracy-uk-telegraph/
title: Telegraph columnist wrongly claims literacy at the lowest level in UK history - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Various international league tables put the UK above the OECD average for literacy and numeracy.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK’s child literacy and numeracy rates consistently languish either at or near the bottom of every international table.


claimant: Oliver Dowden
claim_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/oliver-dowden-3300-every-single-family/
review_date: 2023-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has provided cost of living interventions of more than £3,300 for every single family in the UK.

title:
Deputy PM fails to back up claim that government has provided over £3,300 in cost of living support for ‘every single family’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This doesn’t appear to be correct and the government hasn’t provided evidence to back it up. The Treasury says £3,300 is the average amount per household provided by the government to help with rising bills, suggesting the amount provided for some households is more, and for others less. We’ve not seen any estimates for the amount provided for every family.


text: Grant Shapps said that people who are double vaccinated are more likely to get and carry Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/grant-shapps-video/
title: Grant Shapps misspoke about double vaccinated people on BBC Breakfast - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Grant Shapps did say this. His office has explained that it was a simple mistake. He intended to say that people who are double vaccinated are much less likely to get and carry Covid-19.


text: 40% of grassroots music venues in London have shut in the past eight years.
claimant: Financial Times
claim_date: 2016-11-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/no-longer-partying-all-night-london-nightclubs-closing/
title: No longer partying all night - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A report for the Mayor of London found 35% fewer venues in 2015 than 2007. City Hall says it’s now 40%.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-admissions-2010-2018/
title: How many emergency patients are waiting over four hours for a bed? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of patients having to wait over four hours for a bed in A&E increased from 83,743 in 2010 to 641,963 in 2018.

textual_rating:
These figures are broadly correct looking at the number of patients in England waiting over four hours between a decision being taken to admit them to hospital for an emergency and them actually being admitted.


text: Health and social care will account for 40% of all public spending by next year.
claimant: Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/health-public-spending-forty-percent/
title: No, health won’t account for 40% of all public spending - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s been estimated that health and social care will account for around 40% of the planned public sector budget by 2024/25, but this is only about half of day-to-day spending as it doesn’t include things like welfare and pension payments.


claimant: Alex Salmond
claim_date: 2016-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/scottish-jobs-after-brexit/
title: Scottish jobs after Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If the UK leaves the EU single market and relies only on its membership of the World Trade Organisation, there would be 80,000 jobs lost in Scotland.

textual_rating:
The numbers aren’t certain, but a forecast for the Scottish government suggests that in 10 years there would be 80,000 fewer jobs in Scotland if the UK leaves the single market, compared to the number there would be if it stays in the EU. The report expects every scenario outside the EU to mean fewer jobs.


claimant: Financial Times
claim_date: 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/hate-crime-and-eu-referendum/
title: Hate crime and the EU referendum - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The increase in reported hate crimes after the EU referendum was due to the way the crimes were perceived and reported, not the number of hate crimes actually being committed.

textual_rating:
An increased tendency to report hate crime may explain part of the recent surge in hate crimes recorded by the police. It’s a matter of judgement how much.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines are experimental.
claimant: Vernon Coleman
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Vernon-Coleman-Trafalgar-Square-conspiracy-claims-false/
title: Trafalgar Square “Freedom Rally” speech littered with false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. All of the Covid-19 vaccines have been approved for safety and effectiveness through clinical trials.


text: We are short by 100,000 lorry drivers.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2021-09-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/fuel-shortage-hgv-drivers/
title: How many more HGV drivers does the UK need? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure hasn’t been fully evidenced. It is based on the assumption that there was already a shortage of 60,000 before the pandemic. There are 30,000 fewer lorry drivers now than in the year before the pandemic.


text: Eat Out to Help Out led to an increase in Covid-19 infection rates
claimant: Momentum
claim_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/did-eat-out-help-out-cause-covid-spread/
title: Did Eat Out to Help Out cause Covid to spread? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We cannot reliably say whether this is true. One study estimates that it did cause extra Covid cases, but it is uncertain, and often misunderstood


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mirror-long-covid-warm-weather/
title: Mirror wrong to say catching Covid in warm weather cuts risk of long Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Imperial College London’s REACT-LC study found catching Covid-19 in the colder winter months may be a factor in whether some people find their symptoms persisting.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The Mirror compared research conducted over the 2020/21 autumn and winter period to research conducted in May 2021. These dates did not refer to when participants may have caught Covid-19 in the first place.


text: A selection of videos show the difference between natural skies and “geoengineered” skies.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-sky-natural-geoengineered/
title: No evidence videos show ‘geoengineered’ skies - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that the videos show geoengineering—the deliberate large-scale manipulation of climate—happening. Many of the videos appear to show either contrails, the white lines sometimes seen behind planes, or different types of clouds.


text: A video shows what may be synthetic fibres inside a cupcake.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/shocking-food-facts/
title: These food facts are mostly incorrect or misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect, the “fibres” shown in the video are gluten strands, a common protein found in things like wheat.


text: Raising public sector pay in line with inflation will cost £4 billion.
claimant: Dawn Butler
claim_date: 2017-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/cost-lifting-public-sector-pay-cap/
title: The cost of lifting the public sector pay cap - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It's correct that it will cost £4 billion a year according to one estimate, although it's uncertain how accurate this will turn out to be.


text: Nanotechnology in vaccines, when hit with a 5G signal, will cause muscle spasms and death.
claimant: Dr Rima Laibow
claim_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/5G-covid-vaccine-deaths/
title: 5G is not triggering nanotechnology in the Covid vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The mRNA Covid-19 vaccines use lipid nanoparticles to carry the active ingredients, but there is no mechanism by which this would interact with 5G and cause harm.


text: Two people in Newry go around claiming to be homeless, seeking help, and then they attack you.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/newry-fake-mugshot-facebook-posts/
title: Warnings about 'homeless pair' attacking people are fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There have been no reliable reports of people being attacked in this way in Newry. The two photos attached to the post appear to be unrelated and to have been taken outside Northern Ireland, and are of two people in different locations. One of the photos is at least four years old.


text: A 5G tower powered by a “Delta” power system, suggests a link between 5G and Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/5g-tower-with-delta-power-system-is-not-related-to-covid-19/
title: 5G tower with ‘Delta’ power system is not related to Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The power system is supplied by Delta Group, an infrastructure business founded in 1971. The name is coincidental, and has no link to Covid-19.


text: Water cannon may be deployed today in London for a pro-Brexit march.
claimant: Gerard Batten
claim_date: 2019-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/no-water-cannon-brexit-march/
title: No, water cannon will not be deployed at the pro-Brexit march - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is untrue. The Met Police do not own any water cannon and they are not currently authorised for use in England and Wales. Both the Met Police and the Mayor of London’s office confirmed they will not be using water cannon.


text: M62 and M60 cameras went live on 8 January and clock you at 72mph.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/M60-M62-72MPH/
title: This claim about cameras and speed limits on the M60 and M62 isn’t quite true - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Cameras on the M60 and M62 have been in operation since 1 January 2019. But the national speed limit is still 70mph.


text: A man with dementia named Martin Jones is missing with his dog.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-man-hoax-martin-jones/
title: Hoax posts about ‘missing’ man ‘Martin Jones’ recirculating on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax post, which we have fact checked a number of times before. The man in the picture is not called Martin Jones.


text: If you appeal against a Work Capability Assessment you are almost certain to win.
claimant: Ken Loach
claim_date: 2016-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/appealing-fit-for-work-decision/
title: Appealing a ‘Fit for Work’ decision - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
About three-fifths of appeal cases are successful. Decisions that are challenged but don’t make it to appeal have a lower success rate.


text: 23.5 million people in England haven’t had a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine.
claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2021-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-england-population-vaccinated/
title: How many people in England are unvaccinated? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This is based on flawed maths and is too high. There are two estimates for the true figure, depending on which population estimate you use, but both are considerably lower.


claimant: Dan Wootton
claim_date: 2022-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/dan-wootton-covid-only-deaths/
title: Dan Wootton and David Davis make incorrect claims about Covid-19 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
While the media talks a lot of the 150,000 deaths, perhaps they should have been talking about the number of people who died 'of Covid' not 'with Covid'. That was just 17,371 up to the end of quarter three 2021

textual_rating:
False. This is the number of people who died of Covid and had no pre-existing conditions in England and Wales.


text: More than 30,000 children aged between 10 and 15 now say that they are in gangs.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/-children-gangs/
title: How many children are in gangs? The data’s not good enough to know - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know the exact number, and it’s difficult to get an accurate measure of this. In 2013/14, a survey found 0.9% of 10-15 year olds in England and Wales said they were in a street gang, which implies around 30,000 children in England, but this should not be taken as exact.


text: Young people are not at risk from Covid-19 at all.
claimant: Charles Walker
claim_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/
title: Young people do face a small risk from Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Both children and young adults face a very low risk of death or serious illness if they catch Covid-19.


text: If we vote ‘remain’... The EU will continue to control… trade
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-trade/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on trade - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Trade policies for EU members are decided at EU level, so the UK can’t negotiate its own trade deals.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/airport-staff-shortage-glitch-planned-wef/
title: Zero evidence airport disruption planned by World Economic Forum - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are no staffing shortages or baggage glitches at airports—the disruption was planned and is linked to the World Economic Forum.

textual_rating:
The issues with staffing shortages and technical glitches at airports have been extremely widely reported, and there is no evidence the disruption has been planned or has anything to do with the WEF.


text: Young British people would be conscripted into an EU army under EU regulations.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/EU-army-conscription/
title: The UK can’t be forced into an “EU Army” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The EU has no formal plans for an EU army, or for military conscription. The UK has a veto on EU military policy so couldn’t be forced to participate in an EU army.


text: The official Leave campaign is getting a similar amount of money as the Remain campaign.
claimant: Vote Leave
claim_date: 2016-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/whos-getting-taxpayers-money-eu-referendum/
title: Who’s getting taxpayers’ money in the EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government is spending an estimated £9 million sending pro-Remain leaflets to all UK households. This is on top of what the official campaign groups on either side of the debate will get in public money, which includes a free mailout.


text: Many graduates will not pay back their student debt.
claimant: John Prescott
claim_date: 2018-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/about-17-students-are-forecast-fully-pay-back-their-loans/
title: About 17% of students are forecast to fully pay back their loans - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct according to forecasts. Estimates from the Institute for Fiscal Studies in October last year show about 83% of graduates are forecast to have some of their debt written off under the current system.


text: We built more homes in 2017 than in all but one of the last 30 years.
claimant: Liam Fox
claim_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/million-more-homes/
title: There are 1.1 million more homes in England since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct for the last 26 years, looking at the total number of homes added to the overall stock including things like conversions, minus demolitions. There were 217,000 homes added in 2016/17.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2021-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-scotland-vaccinations/
review_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In Scotland, the fully vaccinated account for nine in every 10 Covid-19 deaths over the past four months.

title:
Why might vaccinated people account for a bigger share of Covid-19 deaths than infections? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Broadly correct. It’s more like eight in 10. People who have been vaccinated at least once account for around nine in 10 Covid-19 deaths.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/eu-budget-contributions-misleading/
title: This post about EU budget contributions is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK would pay 62% more into the EU budget than it gets back in spending by 2022 if it stays in the EU.

textual_rating:
This can’t be known, because we don’t yet know what the EU budget will look like for 2021-27, and it is being planned on the assumption that the UK is not a part of it.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Asda-facial-recognition/
title: Asda tills don’t use facial recognition for targeted ads - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is false. Asda has confirmed the machines do not store any visual data.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Asda’s self-service tills use facial recognition to collect customers’ data for targeted advertising.


text: We let convicted terrorists out.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kray-twins-great-train-terrorists-jail/
title: Claim about the Kray Twins and great train robbers’ prison releases are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
People convicted of terrorism related offences can be let out of prison, though they can also be sentenced to life in prison.


text: The overwhelming majority of people in hospital with Covid have not been vaccinated.
claimant: Anna Soubry
claim_date: 2022-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/anna-soubry-sky-unvaccinated/
review_date: 2022-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Anna Soubry was wrong to say that the ‘overwhelming majority’ of Covid-19 patients are unvaccinated - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not supported by the latest evidence, which shows that 46% of admissions in England in the four weeks up to 19 December were unvaccinated people.


text: The UK gives the EU £12 billion per year.
claimant: British Voice
claim_date: 2018-08-26T00:00:00Z
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:
Incorrect. Last year the UK made a net contribution of up to £9 billion (not counting any money that goes to the UK private sector).


text: Training a doctor costs £230,000.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cost-training-doctor/
title: The cost of training a doctor - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the overall cost of training a doctor according to the Department of Health. It isn't the cost to the taxpayer. £163,000 comes in non-repayable grants. Students will repay much of the rest, whether or not they work in the NHS.


text: The four-hour accident and emergency target has not been hit in over two years.
claimant: Jonathan Ashworth
claim_date: 2017-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/when-was-four-hour-e-target-last-hit/
title: When was the four-hour A&E target last hit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The four hour A&E target hasn’t been met in England since July 2015, and the last time it was met over a full year was in 2013/14. The target hasn't been met at “major” A&E departments since June 2013 and hasn’t been above 95% annually since 2010/11.


text: 44.2% of Southern Mainline and Coast trains were not at terminus on time.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2016-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/southern-trains-running-on-time/
title: Are Southern trains running on time? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is accurate according to one definition of ‘on time’: trains arriving within five minutes. According to another definition—within one minute—an estimated 70% of trains during this period were late.


text: 72,000 jobs have been delivered by Crossrail.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/crossrail-jobs/
title: How many jobs has Crossrail created? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That figure’s close to TfL’s official estimate. Downing Street says the PM’s claim was based on comments from Crossrail CEO Mark Wild, who actually said 75,000 people have worked on the wider Crossrail project.


claimant: Cabinet Office
claim_date: 2018-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/voter-id-scheme/
title: Has the government’s voter ID scheme been a success? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Allegations of people pretending to be other people to steal their votes doubled nationally between 2014 and 2016.

textual_rating:
Allegations of personation at polling stations did double from 21 in 2014, to 45 in 2016. The UK statistics Authority said that isolating 2014 to 2016 is “not typical of the fuller time series”.  The number of allegations fell again to 28 in 2017 and there were 22 a year on average since 2010.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/post-referendum-predictions/
title: Post-referendum predictions: have forecasts for the economy changed? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The average forecast for UK GDP growth this year was the same September as in June, despite the UK voting to leave the EU.

textual_rating:
This is correct, but it isn’t the whole picture. Yes, the average forecast for UK GDP growth in 2016 was the same in September as it was in June. But the types of goods and services predicted to make up that growth was different.


claimant: Dan Wootton
claim_date: 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/London-vs-england-2016-2020/
title: Crime in London has risen less than the rest of England since 2016 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In London crime has risen five times faster than the rest of the country since Sadiq Khan became Mayor in 2016.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Recorded crime per person in London has increased by 18% over this period, less than the 31% increase across England overall. These statistics only count crime recorded by police, and it’s estimated that overall crime is decreasing.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/rothschild-world-war-3-quote/
title: No evidence that Jeff Rothschild ever called for WW3 to bring about a ‘new world order’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jeff Rothschild said that to “finalise a new world order” we need a “3rd world war to exterminate 90% of the global population”.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence that Mr Rothschild has ever said this. The quote has been circulating for many years, and has been fact checked many times.


text: Nearly half (44%) of pregnant women in the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine trial miscarried.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/miscarriages-pfizer-trial/
review_date: 2022-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Claim that 44% of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine trial pregnancies ended in miscarriage is wrong - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This figure is based on a miscalculation. During the Pfizer trials, there were much lower rates of miscarriage among those who received the vaccine and those who received the placebo. Neither rate was unusually high.


text: London has the highest proportion of babies with at least one parent born outside the UK.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/parents-born-outside-uk/
title: A third of babies have at least one parent born outside the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct. More babies born in London have at least one parent born outside the UK than anywhere else in England and Wales.


text: There are more people in work in the UK than for many years.
claimant: Justine Greening
claim_date: 2017-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-eurozone-lower-unemployment/
title: Does the UK have lower unemployment than the Eurozone? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. 32 million people are in employment, which is a near record level, as is the employment rate at 75%.


text: Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are cures for the new coronavirus.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2020-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chloroquine-coronavirus/
title: We don’t yet know if anti-malaria drug chloroquine is a cure for Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There aren’t yet peer-reviewed clinical studies to prove either drug is effective against the symptoms of, or can protect against, the new coronavirus. You should not take either unless you’re specifically prescribed them by a doctor.


text: Obesity costs the economy £27 billion a year.
claimant: George Osborne
claim_date: 2016-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/what-does-obesity-cost-economy/
title: What does obesity cost the economy? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the best estimate we’ve got of the total cost of obesity and being overweight to the NHS and the economy. But it’s based on analysis that’s over a decade old and there’s a lot of uncertainty to the numbers.


text: Understaffing in hospitals at weekends is responsible for 11,000 deaths according to research.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2015-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/no-evidence-11000-nhs-weekend-deaths-are-caused-understaffing/
title: No evidence 11,000 NHS weekend deaths are caused by understaffing - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The research doesn't say this. It did find 11,000 excess deaths but says to assume these are avoidable "would be rash and misleading".


text: Nasal flu vaccines are causing the increase in strep A infections and deaths in young children.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-12-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/strep-a-flu-vaccine-children/
title: Facebook posts wrongly link nasal flu vaccines to increase in strep A infections - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is true. Nasal flu vaccinations have been safely given to some school children since 2013.


text: Joe Biden has been seen with a large bruise on his forehead during a trip to Poland.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/joe-biden-bruise-ash-wednesday/
title: Mark on Joe Biden’s forehead during Poland trip isn’t a ‘bruise’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The ‘bruise’ is actually an ash cross, given during Ash Wednesday Mass. As a practising Catholic, the US President received a private mass while in Warsaw.


text: About 46% of prisoners and 60% of those on short sentences re-offend within a year of release.
claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/reoffending-short-sentences/
title: How many prisoners re-offend within a year of release? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for England and Wales as of March 2014. The overall rate of proven re-offending has remained stable for the past decade.


text: The Pfizer vaccine has a one in 17 mortality rate.
claimant: The Bernician
claim_date: 2021-12-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-vaccine-adverse-events/
title: Pfizer vaccine doesn’t have a 6% fatality rate - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Of those adverse event cases reported after vaccination with the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine which ended in death or recovery, this figure is the proportion which were fatal.


text: Liking and sharing a post will get you £35 of free food from Iceland.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/iceland-free-food/
title: Iceland isn’t giving away free food - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The post comes from a page pretending to be the supermarket. There’s no evidence of any such promotion on the official page.


text: Indoor and outdoor air pollution claim at least 40,000 UK lives a year.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2016-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-interpret-todays-reports-about-air-pollution/
title: How to interpret today's reports about air pollution - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Estimates suggest that every year, the equivalent of 40,000 deaths in the UK are attributable to exposure to outdoor air pollution. Adding deaths attributable to indoor air pollution is thought to increase this figure, but it’s not known exactly by how much. This doesn’t mean that this number of people die prematurely every year because of air pollution, as it’s not the sole cause of deaths.


text: The XMRV virus is in vaccines.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-grave-picture/
title: There are no mouse brains in Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that this virus is present in any vaccines or that it is linked to disease in humans.


text: Matching nurse pay to inflation would cost every household in the country about £1,000.
claimant: Maria Caulfield
claim_date: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/maria-caulfield-nhs-nurse-pay/
title: Health minister’s claims on nurse pay fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is problematic for a number of reasons. Firstly, it describes an inflation-matching pay rise for all public sector workers, not just nurses. There are also concerns about how it was calculated, including the fact it does not appear to take into account money that would come back in taxes on these higher salaries.


text: Strep throat used to be mild but suddenly appears to have become lethal to children.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/strep-A-historic-deaths/
title: Strep A deaths are not dangerous new strain caused by flu vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Strep A was historically a major cause of death to children and adults and while this year’s season appears to have started earlier than usual, the number of deaths is not dissimilar to the number in previous seasons


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/greggs-coupon-deal-facebook-fake/
title: Fake Greggs coupon deal shared hundreds of times - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is a fake offer. Greggs told Full Fact that they are not affiliated in any way with this post.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Social media users can get eight coupons for a free sausage roll and a drink at Greggs if they share and comment on a Facebook post.


text: Aluminium in vaccines can cause Alzheimer’s disease.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-aluminium/
title: No evidence aluminium in vaccines causes Alzheimer's disease - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No link between Alzheimer’s disease and the small amount of aluminium found in some vaccines has been established.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-graphics-unicef/
title: Coronavirus graphics you may have been sent on WhatsApp are not actually from Unicef - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If the new coronavirus is exposed to a temperature of 26-27ºC it will be killed, as it does not live in hot regions. Also drinking hot water and sun exposure will do the trick and staying away from ice cream and cold food is advised.

textual_rating:
There have been cases of Covid-19 in areas with warmer temperatures than this, and we don’t know what temperatures the virus can withstand. There’s no evidence that hot water and the sun will cure it or that staying away from cold food can prevent it.


text: This was spent on each employee only contacting two people each.
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:
This refers to an average figure part-way through the contract and includes workers who were not employed by Serco.


review_date: 2020-04-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect, the clip is actually two videos filmed in hospitals in Madrid in mid-March.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows overcrowding in St Mary’s Hospital, London and Covid-19 patients lying on the floor in corridors.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/video-supposedly-showing-covid-19-patients-st-marys-hospital-london-was-actually-filmed-madrid/

title:
This video supposedly showing Covid-19 patients at St Mary’s Hospital, London was actually filmed in Madrid - Full Fact


text: There is no test that can identify the Delta variant.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-for-delta-variant/
title: There are ways to identify the Delta variant - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Delta variant can be identified through analysis of viral genetic material from positive PCR tests. 

The Delta variant is the main strain of Covid-19 in the UK currently.


text: Ipsos MORI translates to ‘they die’ in Latin.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Astrazeneca-name-translation/
title: AstraZeneca does not translate to ‘weapon that kills’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-24T00:00:00Z
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 doesn’t mean anything.


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:
The UK has lost 134 million miles of bus routes because private operators choose to make a profit and scrap the ones that don’t.

textual_rating:
There were 134 million fewer miles driven by buses in the UK in 2016/17 than in 2006/7. This was driven by a reduction in local authority funded bus miles.


text: UKHSA data shows that the Covid-19 vaccines are negatively effective.
claimant: daily blaze
claim_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukhsa-vaccines-not-negatively-effective/
title: The Covid-19 vaccines don’t have ‘negative efficacy’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This data cannot be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness. Other estimates from the UKHSA show that the Covid-19 vaccines are effective.


text: It is estimated that a single Google search could power a low-energy light bulb for an hour.
claimant: Rod Liddle
claim_date: 2019-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/google-search/
title: How energy intensive is a Google search? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Google’s own estimate which is a decade old shows that the energy required to power a Google search could power a low energy (10 watt) light bulb for 108 seconds. Each search will vary slightly and Google searches may have become more efficient in the last decade.


text: The EU referendum was “advisory” only.
claimant: John Redwood
claim_date: 2016-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/was-eu-referendum-advisory/
title: Was the EU referendum “advisory”? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The referendum wasn’t legally binding, but there’s plenty of scope for argument about whether politicians should feel obliged to implement the result anyway.


text: The UK share of the vote in the EU Council of Ministers is 8%, down from 17% when we joined.
claimant: Vote Leave
claim_date: 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/british-influence-eu-council-ministers/
title: British influence in the EU Council of Ministers - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It has declined, but a new system based on population makes the UK's vote worth 13%. A lot of Council decisions are made by consensus after negotiation, so vote share doesn't neatly capture the UK's influence.


claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
claim_date: 2016-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-we-collecting-historically-high-levels-tax/
title: Historically high levels of tax? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government’s tax take has been roughly between 34% and 38% of GDP since the 1970s and is set to rise to 38%.

textual_rating:
These figures seem to refer to all government income, not just taxes. On that basis it’s broadly correct, although income has been more than 40% of GDP at points.


text: £37 billion has been spent on NHS Test and Trace so far.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/37bn-test-trace-spending/
title: NHS Test and Trace has not spent £37bn so far - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. £37 billion is the budget for the project’s first two years. We don’t know exactly how much was spent by early March, but it will be much less.


text: Liaison therapy has been rolled out to over 90% of A&Es, of which half are open 24/7.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-crisis-care/
title: Mental health crisis care - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, although only 13% of hospitals offer what’s called a ‘core 24’ standard of service.


claimant: Piers Corbyn
claim_date: 2020-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/1102-vaccine-adr-death/
title: 1,102 people haven’t died ‘of’ the Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are now more deaths from the Covid-19 vaccine per day than there are with Covid-19 within 28 days of a positive test.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The vaccine has not caused any deaths per day. That is how many people have died after a vaccine.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bill-gates-chips-bbc/
review_date: 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The BBC published a travel piece saying that there will be microchips in the upcoming vaccines funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation so they can track who has been vaccinated for coronavirus.

title:
The BBC did not say that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is planning to put microchips in Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The BBC article is a speculative piece on the future of travel following the Covid-19 pandemic. There is no mention of microchips being used in vaccines.


text: Beaches, parks and children’s playgrounds are closed.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-list-uk-lockdown-rules-not-right/
title: Viral list of UK lockdown rules is not right - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Playgrounds are closed. Some parks have decided to close too, but no beaches have reported closing. People should follow social distancing measures.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bill-gates-patent-microchips/
title: Patent application 060606 does not mention inserting microchips into the body - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Microsoft and Bill Gates have filed a patent numbered 060606 for a microchip which is inserted into the body and which rewards activity with cryptocurrency.

textual_rating:
Microsoft's 060606 patent doesn't reference injectable microchips. It is true that Microsoft has a patent application with the numbers 060606 in it, but it's for a system which rewards physical activity with cryptocurrency.


text: A 14 year-old girl is missing after being pulled into a car.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-posts-missing-girl-car/
title: Viral posts about missing girl are false, again - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. There are no reports of this happening. The picture is of a 15 year-old girl who briefly went missing in different circumstances in 2019.


text: A video shows protesters in London chanting “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it”.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/racist-edited-video-statues/
review_date: 2020-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
This video of protesters in London chanting “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it” is fake - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Audio from a clip of racist Chelsea fans in Paris in 2015 has been added onto the video of the protests at the weekend.


claimant: Suella Braverman
claim_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/UNHCR-asylum-seekers-Sudan/
title: You can’t apply for asylum in the UK through the UNHCR - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People fleeing Sudan for humanitarian reasons should apply through the UNHCR if they want to seek asylum in the UK.

textual_rating:
The UK does receive some refugees through resettlement schemes operated by the UNHCR. But there is no application process for these schemes, and it’s not possible to apply through the UNHCR to seek asylum specifically in the UK.


text: Dettol antiseptic spray says it kills coronavirus.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-01-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-dettol/
title: Dettol hasn’t tested its products against the new Wuhan coronavirus yet - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That is correct but that doesn’t refer to the new coronavirus (Covid-19) identified in Wuhan. Coronavirus is a large category of viruses that includes the common cold. Dettol has said its products haven’t been tested against the new virus yet.


text: The number of frontline prison officers has fallen over the last year.
claimant: Howard League for Penal Reform
claim_date: 2016-08-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/prison-officers-are-they-putting-hours/
title: The number of frontline prison officers is falling - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. There has been a fall of a few hundred officers, with the exact number depending on how you define the frontline.


claimant: A Political Dustbin
claim_date: 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Diane-Abbott-poster-fake/
title: This Diane Abbott poster is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The poster is not real, and never appeared anywhere on a billboard. The photo is a mock-up.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Labour poster featuring Diane Abbott said “Labour will put black and ethnic minority families first to preserve a diverse nation”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bbc-funerals-george-floyd-vera-lynn/
title: It’s not true the BBC decided against showing Dame Vera Lynn’s funeral live - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The BBC decided not to broadcast the funeral of Dame Vera Lynn live, but did broadcast the funeral of George Floyd in America.

textual_rating:
This is not correct. Dame Vera’s funeral was a private event. The BBC did broadcast live the funeral procession, which was public.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/diane-abbott-fake-quote-white-people/
title: No evidence Diane Abbott said quote about ‘the problem with Britain’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence she said this, and she denies it.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Diane Abbott once said: “The problem in Britain is not immigration, the problem in Britain is white people.”


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nose-swab-picture/
title: Viral illustration shows one type of Covid-19 sampling method - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An illustration shows that the Covid-19 test involves a swab going all the way to the back of the nose.

textual_rating:
This illustration is from a medical imaging company showing a nasopharyngeal swab Covid-19 test. Not all tests are done this way.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-enhancement-syndrome/
title: Having a Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t make you more vulnerable to the disease - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 vaccines cause vaccine enhancement syndrome which makes you even more vulnerable to the disease.

textual_rating:
This is not true. It is based on a misreading of a MailOnline article about Covid-19 variants. There is no such thing as vaccine enhancement syndrome. The Covid vaccines do not cause antibody dependent enhancement, which may be what the post had in mind.


text: Violent crime is at record levels.
claimant: Louise Haigh
claim_date: 2019-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/violent-crime-not-record-levels/
title: Violent crime is not at record levels - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Several reliable sources indicate that overall violent crime in England and Wales is far lower now than it was in the 1990s. Police figures show violent crimes at their highest recorded level, but these are unreliable.


text: Ivermectin can cure Covid-19 in 48 hours.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ethylene-oxide-covid-test-ivermectin/
title: Viral video spreads misinformation about ethylene oxide and Ivermectin - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A study looking at Ivermectin’s impact on the SARS-CoV-2 virus in cells in the lab found it dramatically reduced the amount of viral RNA in cells within 48 hours, which doesn’t mean it can do the same in people. Both the Department of Health and Social Care and the WHO have said there is not sufficient evidence to prove the efficacy of Ivermectin as a cure for Covid-19, and its use remains controversial.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/us-fact-checking-site-did-not-endorse-fox-news-broadcast/
title: US fact checking site did not endorse a Fox News broadcast - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: PolitiFact did not endorse this video, nor does it vouch for its claims.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video suggests US fact checking organisation PolitiFact endorsed a Fox News recording of Americans discussing health conditions that developed after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine.


text: Theresa May claimed expenses for a £1.59 paper clip.
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:
We couldn’t find a claim for this exact amount  or for a single paperclip, though Mrs May did claim expenses for paperclips along with other items of office stationery.


text: 33,000 nurses leave the NHS each year.
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:
This is broadly true looking at the headcount figure, but it does not consider the number of nurses joining the NHS in England.


text: “Illegal immigrants” receive on average £26,000 a year in unearned benefits.
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 isn’t true. People who are in the UK without a legal right to be there are not entitled to claim any benefits. Asylum seekers, including those who arrive in the UK on small boats, also can’t claim welfare benefits, but they do get limited financial support. Refugees are entitled to benefits on the same basis as UK nationals, but are unlikely to receive £26,000 due to the benefits cap.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-brexit-costs-wrong/
title: This viral image showing the cost of different Brexit deals is wrong in a lot of ways - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Options for post-Brexit trade deals with the EU will lead to between £39 billion and £158 billion less per year.

textual_rating:
This is based on government analysis comparing 3 hypothetical deals to existing GDP projections, which explicitly can’t be used as economic forecasts and are very uncertain. Were they to be used anyway, these are figures for a 15 year period, not one year.


text: You might not be able to have children if you have the Covid-19 vaccine.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ethylene-oxide-covid-test-ivermectin/
title: Viral video spreads misinformation about ethylene oxide and Ivermectin - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that any Covid-19 vaccines can impact fertility. The NHS is currently advising that it is preferable for pregnant people in the UK to have the Pfizer/BioTech or Moderna vaccines as they have been given in pregnancy worldwide to more people without issue.


text: The UK is short of skilled electricians, plasterers, joiners, chefs and nurses.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/what-skills-are-we-short-uk/
title: What skills are we short of in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no simple definition of a shortage skilled profession in the UK, but nurses and chefs are on the official Shortage Occupation List, because they’re considered to need workers from overseas. The other professions mentioned aren’t currently on that list, but some employers still report difficulties in recruiting them, especially joiners.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensions-or-minimum-wage/
title: Viral Facebook post compares the national living wage with the state pension - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is broadly correct for workers over the age of 25.
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 x 36 hours equals £1,256 per month, x 12 months equals £15,070 per year.


text: Delaying a decision about which runway to build costs the UK economy £6 million every day.
claimant: Robert Cumber
claim_date: 2016-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/does-delaying-airport-expansion-cost-us-6-million-day/
title: Does delaying airport expansion cost us £6 million a day? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Whether or not you agree that a delay in the decision is imposing unnecessary costs on the UK economy, this probably isn’t the best estimate of what those costs are. Any precise figure will be uncertain.


text: MPs’ salaries have increased from £66,000 in 2010 to £77,000 in 2018.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pay-rises-how-much-do-nurses-police-teachers-and-mps-get-paid/
title: Pay rises: how much do nurses, the police, teachers and MPs get paid? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures don’t take account of inflation since 2010. In 2018 prices MPs’ pay has remained stable compared with 2010 at around £77,400.


text: Only 17.2 million people in the UK had an autumn booster and the rest chose not to have it.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-numbers-flipped-seasonal-boosters/
title: Vaccine boosters post wrongly says people not offered Covid-19 vaccine ‘declined’ it - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The autumn booster was only offered to those at higher risk, such as those over 50, anyone pregnant, and frontline health and social care workers. Most people did not have the chance to reject it.


text: Hardly anyone died solely of Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-disappeared-lie-covid-deaths/
title: Covid death rates were not a ‘lie’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Over 210,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the UK. In England and Wales, 160,000 have died with Covid-19 as the sole underlying cause. People who had pre-existing conditions mentioned on their death certificates still died of Covid-19. Conditions like diabetes, which is chronic and is often also mentioned on death certificates of people who died of Covid-19, were not necessarily going to cause that person’s death.


text: Money raised by Captain Tom Moore is only going to the NHS in England.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/captain-tom-uk/
review_date: 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
It’s incorrect that the money raised by Captain Tom is only going towards the NHS in England - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Money raised by Captain Tom is going towards the Covid-19 appeal run by NHS Charities Together, which distributes money to charities across all four UK nations.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-girl-sofia-hoax-appeal/
title: Thousands share fake appeal for missing child ‘Sofia’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A five-year-old girl named Sofia is missing after going out on her bike and failing to return home. A silver alert has been issued following her disappearance.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine appeal. The picture has been taken from a BBC article published in 2021, and is not of a girl named Sofia. A silver alert is a system used for alerting the public about missing elderly people in the US, and is not used in the UK.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/amazon-3-pound-electronics-package-fake/
title: Amazon is not clearing £3 bundles of unclaimed electronic packages - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Social media users who follow a link on Facebook can get a bundle of unclaimed packages from Amazon for £3, containing goods such as iPhones and AirPods.

textual_rating:
Amazon told Full Fact that the post is not genuine. The link in the Facebook post doesn’t take you to an official Amazon site, the image has been edited and the page advertising the offer was only set up in recent days.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Einstein-warning-rich-control-communication/
title: Einstein did argue the rich control communication and this damages democracy - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Einstein wrote that this had already happened in 1949.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Albert Einstein warned in 1949 the time would come when the rich would control the means of communication, making it impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions.


text: Within 72 hours Philadelphia’s hospitals were filled.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/1918-philadelphia-parade-fact-checked/
title: The 1918 Philadelphia parade fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We know emergency hospitals opened in Philadelphia during this time suggesting the regular hospitals were working at, or close to capacity.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-12-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/highworth-voting-high-court/
review_date: 2020-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A town with a voting population of less than 7,000 had 41,000 votes counted in a local election. This was then overturned by the High Court.

title:
A mistake did mean a town with a voting population of around 6,400 did have an election where 41,000 votes were counted - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is true—a mistake in the local council elections led to this happening in Highworth, Wiltshire in May 2019.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2022-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/government-has-not-removed-pregnancy-guidance/
title: The government hasn’t ‘removed’ Covid-19 vaccine advice in pregnancy - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK government has removed guidance for pregnant women to have the Covid-19 vaccine because of concerns about the toxicity.

textual_rating:
The government hasn’t removed guidance that told pregnant women to get vaccinated. The government and NHS websites still advise this.


text: Covid-19 vaccines are not approved for use.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/animal-testing-covid-vaccine-experimental/
title: Post makes misleading claims about Covid vaccines and animal trials - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is untrue. All three of the vaccines currently in use in the UK (Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna) have been authorised for use. A fourth, Janssen has been authorised, but is not yet in use.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/small-businesses-and-brexit/
title: Small businesses and Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Federation of Small Businesses said the UK small business community sees the potential wins of an independent global trade policy. It wants trade with the EU 27 kept as easy as possible and is pushing to export to new growth areas in the US and Commonwealth.

textual_rating:
Correct. The FSB also said its top priority is to secure a full, time-limited transition period. Other organisations say that businesses are optimistic but apprehensive, want clarity about the transition, and suggest a full or partial customs union with the EU, or for tariffs to be kept to a minimum.


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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the current system, people on a work, study or family visa incur average NHS costs of £625 per year.

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

textual_rating:
It’s unclear how the Conservatives have calculated this new figure and we’ve asked them for more information.


text: The Washington Post published an article headlined “This dog is the new face of online homophobia”.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-wapo-article-dogs-homophobia/
title: Fake Washington Post screenshot says dachshund is the ‘face of online homophobia’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Washington Post never published such an article and the screenshot has been fabricated. A different website did publish an article with the same headline though.


text: A quarter of nurses need a second job.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2017-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nurses-second-jobs/
title: Are nurses taking a second job to survive? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
23% of respondents to a survey of Royal College of Nursing members said they had taken an “additional paid job”, such as agency nursing, to help pay everyday bills and living expenses. We don’t know how representative this is of all nurses and this is based on a low response rate (8%).


text: Human rights laws and court judgments cost the UK billions, or alternatively, millions.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2010-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/counting-cost-human-rights-law/
title: Counting the cost of human rights law - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The direct cost to the state of European Court of Human Rights judgments has been several million pounds in the past 15 years. Claims in the billions rely on doing effective calculations for the wider cost to the UK, which is impossible.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-taking-control/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: Taking control? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Over the past 43 years, the EU has taken control over more and more areas which don’t have anything to do with trade—such as our borders, our public services, and whether prisoners have the right to vote.

textual_rating:
The scope of the EU has expanded, partly due to treaties that the UK has signed up to. It covers aspects of borders and public services but not total control. It covers prisoners voting only when it comes to European elections.


text: The hardest hit by austerity have obviously been the most vulnerable in society.
claimant: George the Poet
claim_date: 2018-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/has-austerity-hit-most-vulnerable-hardest/
title: Has austerity hit the most vulnerable the hardest? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's correct according to various analyses of tax and benefit policies. But the poorest UK households have also seen their post-tax incomes rise faster than any other group since 2010.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-nanoparticles/
title: No evidence that nanoparticles in Covid-19 vaccines affect fertility - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines use lipid nanoparticles to deliver an mRNA load into cells.


claimant: Ed Davey
claim_date: 2023-03-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/overseas-aid-target-ed-davey/
review_date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Liberal Democrats are “the only party” committed to restoring the target of spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on overseas aid.

title:
The Liberal Democrats, SNP and Plaid Cymru all pledge to immediately restore the overseas aid target - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The SNP and Plaid Cymru also say they are committed to an immediate return to the target. The Conservatives and Labour say they are committed to restoring the target as well, but not immediately—both say the time frame would depend on the fiscal situation.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/putin-speech-satanic-depopulation/
title: Russian president didn’t give speech warning of ‘satanic plans’ to depopulate the world - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Russian president Vladimir Putin gave a speech about a “satanic plan” to depopulate the world through support of Ukraine and ensuing nuclear war.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence Mr Putin ever gave this speech. Extracts from the alleged speech have been circulating online since at least 2018, long before the invasion of Ukraine.


text: Local authorities are proposing 459,000 homes for Green Belt land, up from 425,000 a year ago.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/are-there-plans-build-green-belt/
title: Are there plans to build on the Green Belt? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is uncertain but plausible. That’s according to the Campaign to Protect Rural England’s analysis of English council plans—typically plans for building over the next 15 years. The figures are rough estimates.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/great-western-railway-gift-card-year-travel-facebook/
title: Great Western Railway is not giving away a free year of travel for £1.69 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Great Western Railway is running a promotion offering all UK residents a gift card for a year’s free travel for £1.69.

textual_rating:
The rail company has confirmed publicly that this is not true, and has warned people to take care when interacting with Facebook pages offering such deals.


text: One in four people is hooked on prescription drugs.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/prescription-drug-dependency/
title: We can’t say how many people are ‘hooked on’ prescription drugs - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Research by Public Health England into the prescribing of five specific types of drug found there wasn’t enough evidence to say how many people were addicted. One in four adults in England received a prescription for at least one of the drug types they looked at in 2017/18.


text: Spain’s Health Ministry said that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has never been isolated.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/spanish-health-ministry-covid-isolated/
title: The Covid-19 virus has been isolated many times in Spain—and elsewhere - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Spain’s Health Ministry said that it did not have its own samples of the virus, or a register of labs that culture them. The virus has in fact been isolated many times.


text: The UK Statistics Authority say A&E performance figures have been fiddled.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2018-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fiddled-accident-emergency-statistics/
title: Fiddled A&E statistics? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Authority hasn't said that the figures have been fiddled. It hasn't said that they haven't yet, either. It has demanded that NHS England explain the impact of emails sent to NHS Trusts about counting A&E performance last October and how that might have affected the figures since then.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/short-breaks-study-false/
title: Study does not find ‘short breaks induce mental exhaustion’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The study does not show that short breaks are the cause of any changes to cognitive performance.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A study shows short breaks during a working day cause mental exhaustion that affects a person’s focus, as well as attention, learning and visual recognition.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-independent-ie-headline-global-warming/
title: Irish Independent headline did not warn of ‘asymptomatic global warming’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: No such headline appeared on the website.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A headline on the Irish Independent website said “Climate crisis explainer:
Why is July so cold while everywhere else on the planet is burning? Prof. Luke O'Neill says Ireland is suffering from asymptomatic global warming.”


text: A series of images show chemtrails around Heathrow airport.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-january-2023/
title: Lines reportedly seen in the sky around Heathrow are contrails, not chemtrails - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These lines are actually contrails, caused by water vapour produced by aeroplane engines freezing at high altitude.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/WHO-study-covid-hospitalisations/
title: Study comparing side effects of Covid-19 and vaccines nothing to do with WHO - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A World Health Organisation study has concluded that the increased risk of suffering serious adverse events as a result of the Covid-19 vaccine outweighs the reduced risk of being hospitalised with Covid-19 itself.

textual_rating:
This study has nothing to do with the World Health Organisation, and several experts have also questioned its findings.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/serena-williams-facebook/
title: This Facebook post isn’t by tennis player Serena Williams - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tennis pro Serena Williams wrote a post saying she is “sick of COVID-19” and sick of “black vs. white”.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect, the post was shared by someone also called Serena Williams, but not the tennis player.


text: The rate of extra investment in the NHS has fallen by 68% since 2010.
claimant: Bloc
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 this refers to growth in all UK health spending, rather than just for the NHS. It compares the periods 1955/56 to 2015/16 (when health spending grew by an average of 4% in real terms each year) and 2009/10 to 2015/16 (when it grew by an average of 1.3% a year).


text: Chevening is funded by a charity.
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/chevening-taxpayer-charity/
title: Chevening isn’t 'taxpayer-funded' in the usual sense - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not entirely clear. Chevening is funded by a public trust that is not registered with the Charity Commission, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a charity and it operates like one in many ways.


text: A report suggests an independent Scotland would have to make public expenditure reductions.
claimant: Kwasi Kwarteng MP
claim_date: 2018-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-independent-scotland-have-keep-pound-cut-public-spending/
title: Would an independent Scotland have to keep the pound and cut public spending? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The report, commissioned by the Scottish National Party, actually says that public spending could continue to grow. This does depend on sufficient growth in the economy after independence.


claimant: Nick Gibb
claim_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/persistent-absence-rates/
title: What do the figures on persistent absence from school show? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Children who miss one day of the first week of school are around 40% more likely to become persistently absent later on in the school year.

textual_rating:
Figures sent to Full Fact by the Department for Education show that pupils who missed at least one day during the first week of term are much more likely to have been persistently absent. But they don’t directly support the claim that they were 40% more likely to become persistently absent, and we’ve asked the DfE for further clarification.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Glastonbury-litter-Greta-Thunberg/
title: Old image of Glastonbury aftermath re-emerges on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Image shows aftermath of Glastonbury festival, where Greta Thunberg gave a lecture on saving the planet.

textual_rating:
The image does show the Glastonbury festival site, but it was taken in 2015, not in 2022, when Greta Thunberg appeared.


text: In the last eight years, Education Maintenance Allowance has been taken away.
claimant: Chuka Umunna MP
claim_date: 2018-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/sure-start-schools-tuition-fees/
title: Sure Start, school building and tuition fees: the Conservative and Coalition record - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It was removed in England at the end of the 2010/11 school year, and replaced by a new bursary scheme. Government research suggests the new scheme has lowered participation in further education among students previously eligible for EMA.


text: No one can be buried or cremated on Monday 19 September except for the Queen.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/funerals-can-still-go-ahead-on-Monday/
title: Other funerals have not been banned on day of the Queen’s funeral - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no formal requirement for funerals, burials or cremations to be cancelled on the day of the Queen’s funeral, though some services are being cancelled at the request of individual families. Others may also be postponed due to the decision of the cemetery or crematorium operator to close.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/face-coverings/
title: You do not need a doctor’s letter to prove exemption from face coverings - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You are not exempt from wearing a face covering unless you have a supporting letter from a doctor, and wearing the invisible disability exemption badge is illegal.

textual_rating:
You do not need a doctor’s letter to prove exemption and you may choose, although are generally not required, to carry an exemption card. Wearing an exemption badge or carrying a card is not illegal.


text: Small boat crossings between January and June are down 20% on last year.
claimant: Chris Philp
claim_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/chris-philp-asylum-seekers/
review_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Minister wrong to claim small boat arrivals are down 20% in the first six months of 2023 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
That’s not correct according to the latest Home Office data. It shows the number of small boat arrivals in the UK between January and June fell by 10% compared to the same period last year. Mr Philp may have been referring to data which shows small boat arrivals were down by 20% in the first five months of 2023.


text: Only eight cases of tax evasion have been prosecuted in the past two years.
claimant: Imran Hussain
claim_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/imran-hussain-tax-evasion-prosecutions/
title: Hundreds of people have been prosecuted for tax evasion in the last two years - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This figure refers to prosecutions for the enabling of tax evasion. HMRC says around 400 people have been prosecuted for tax evasion in the last two years.


text: The vaccines were not trialled or tested.
claimant: Chris Preddie
claim_date: 2023-01-09T00:00:00Z
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 underwent clinical trials and were subject to the same safety assessments as other vaccines.


text: The UK oil and gas industry supports an estimated 375,000 jobs.
claimant: Lord Bourne
claim_date: 2015-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-jobs-are-supported-uks-oil-and-gas-industry/
title: How many jobs are supported by the UK's oil and gas industry? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
375,000 is the latest estimate of the total employment supported by the industry according to the industry itself.


text: The EU has put up trade barriers with African countries.
claimant: Nigel Farage
claim_date: 2019-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/most-african-countries-can-export-goods-eu-tariff-free/
title: Most African countries can export goods to the EU tariff free - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The majority of African countries have no tariffs on exports to the EU, although a handful do face some tariffs.


text: The UK-US trading relationship is worth over £190 billion per year.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-us-trading-and-investment/
title: UK-US trading and investment: a special relationship - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, looking at the value of what each country exports in goods and services to the other. The total value of this in 2018 came to around £191 billion.


text: If you do catch Covid-19, you have a “one in a 100 percent” chance of dying.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-cancer-compared/
title: This viral post understates the risk of Covid-19 infection - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Covid-19’s fatality rate is still being determined, but somewhere between 0.5% and 1% is a reasonable estimate. However, this varies depending on a person’s health and background.


text: Pakistani men are disproportionately involved in grooming gangs.
claimant: Naz Shah
claim_date: 2017-08-12T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2017-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/crime/what-do-we-know-about-ethnicity-people-involved-sexual-offences-against-children/

title:
What do we know about the ethnicity of people involved in sexual offences against children? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Some studies have found that a disproportionate number of offenders and suspected offenders in child grooming gangs are categorised as being of Asian ethnicity and most don’t break this down any further so we can’t know if they are Pakistani. But all of the studies stress that the data isn’t good enough to know whether this is a true reflection of offenders in these cases.


text: A video clip features audio of “banging” coming from the lost Titan submersible.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/titan-submersible-audio-clip/
title: No evidence audio clip is ‘banging’ noises from Titan sub - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this audio is genuine, and the authorities have not officially released any audio from the search. It has been confirmed that the Titan submersible suffered a catastrophic implosion, killing all five people on board.


text: If you connect the dots, vaccines are causing unexplained sudden deaths.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sudden-deaths-connect-the-dots/
title: No evidence for a rise in sudden deaths or that Covid-19 vaccines are the cause - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines are responsible for a rise in “unexplained” or “sudden” deaths. SADS deaths did not increase in England and Wales in 2021.


text: Coronavirus lives on the hands for 10 minutes, but can be prevented with alcohol hand sanitiser.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-graphics-unicef/
title: Coronavirus graphics you may have been sent on WhatsApp are not actually from Unicef - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not clear how long the virus can ‘survive’ on hands, but hand sanitiser with at least 60% alcohol is a good second choice to washing your hands with soap and water.


text: Bumblebees have been recently listed as endangered.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bumblebee-endangered-misleading/
title: Not all bumblebees are endangered - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, there are 13 species of either endangered or critically endangered bumblebee. None of the species recorded in the UK are classified as endangered by the IUCN.


text: The UK has made huge progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
title: UK greenhouse gas emissions: fast progress but not yet enough to meet future targets - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK has exceeded its own targets in cutting emissions compared to 1990 levels, and has made bigger cuts than other G7 countries. But this isn’t expected to be enough to meet future targets.


text: The EU has a 40% tariff on food from Africa.
claimant: George Freeman MP
claim_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/george-freeman-africa-eu-tariffs/
title: The EU doesn’t have a 40% tariff on African food imports - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. There isn’t just one flat tariff on food. Regardless, the EU doesn’t apply tariffs on the vast majority of African countries, due to trade agreements and efforts to support developing nations.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2014-12-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/factcheck-did-eu-rule-obesity-disability/
title: Did the EU rule that obesity is a disability? - Full Fact
review_date: 2014-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The EU Court of Justice has decided that obese people are disabled, and so entitled to protection under employment law.

textual_rating:
Not correct. The court said that an obese person can be considered disabled, if their ability to work is limited. In itself this isn't a major change.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/cash-machine-cancel/
title: Pressing ‘cancel’ does not prevent cash machine fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pressing the cancel button twice before using a cash machine prevents fraudsters from stealing your PIN.

textual_rating:
This is not true. LINK, which operates the UK’s largest cash machine network, calls it an “urban myth”.


text: Up to a third of millennials face renting their entire lives.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/millennials-rent/
title: Will one third of millennials rent for their entire lives? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on a projection made by the Resolution Foundation. Their “pessimistic” UK scenario says 66% of families where the head of household was born from 1981-1995 will own their own home by 2060. Their “optimistic” scenario says 73% will.


text: Bill Gates is a partner in the lab in Wuhan, China.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gates-patent-vaccine-wuhan-lab/
title: Bill Gates doesn’t own the vaccine for or patent of the Covid-19 virus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence the new coronavirus comes from a laboratory or is man-made. Bill Gates is not a partner in any of these labs.


text: 400,000 people in the UK are living with long Covid.
claimant: Layla Moran
claim_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/long-covid-layla-moran/
title: Evidence doesn’t show 400,000 people have long Covid ‘right now’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not accurate. This estimate is based on a small sample size, and assumes everyone who has ever had long Covid still does.


text: The emergency alert allows the government to take control of your exact location.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-alert-location-data/
title: Emergency alert doesn’t let government ‘take control’ of your exact location - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The emergency alert system is designed to provide localised warnings about nearby danger to life, but this doesn’t mean your location is being tracked. The system uses cell towers to send a signal to all 4G and 5G phones nearby.


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
text:
The symptoms of Covid-19 are that it first infects the throat, so you’ll have a sore throat lasting 3 or 4 days. The virus then blends into nasal fluid that enters the trachea and then the lungs causing pneumonia. This takes about 5 or 6 days. With pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty breathing

textual_rating:
This is a roughly accurate description of the most common symptoms, although not everyone with Covid-19 gets pneumonia, and the symptoms may not come in this exact order or at these times.


text: Water bills are up 40% since privatisation.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/water-bills-privatisation/
title: Water rip-off? Are water bills up 40% since privatisation? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct in real terms in England and Wales between 1989 and 2014/15. Most of that rise happened between 1989 and 1995. Bills have fallen slightly in real terms since 2009/10.


claimant: Scott Benton
claim_date: 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/scott-benton-cat-asylum-human-rights-act/
title: No evidence asylum seekers have used pets to argue against deportation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Article Eight of the Human Rights Act sets out a right to private and family life and therefore is allowing asylum seekers to argue that because they have a cat or dog their deportation should be halted.

textual_rating:
We could find no evidence that this has ever been successfully put forward as a reason for an asylum seeker to be granted the right to remain in the UK. A similar claim made in 2011 by Theresa May was widely debunked at the time.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/australia-arrest-politicians/
title: Australian police taking no action over politician ‘arrest warrants’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Arrest warrants for Australia PM Scott Morrison, state premiers and other government officials have now been served to New South Wales police with a deadline for arrest of 31 January.

textual_rating:
New South Wales police said they had received documentation from a protest group but that no further police action was expected. No such arrests were made by that date.


text: 50% of us have been a victim of online crime over the last year.
claimant: Zoë Billingham
claim_date: 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/online-crime-victims/
title: No evidence half of UK was victim of online crime in past year - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We couldn’t find any evidence that this is true. ONS data shows fraud and computer misuse accounted for half of all crime in 2021, but this does not mean half the UK population suffered this kind of crime.


text: Rail companies have held average fare increases below inflation.
claimant: Rail Delivery Group
claim_date: 2020-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rail-fares-inflation/
title: Rail fares are increasing in price faster than other goods and services - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Rail companies have held price increases slightly below the RPI measure of inflation, but this isn’t considered reliable. Better measures of inflation suggest the fare increases are higher than inflation.


text: Between 1995 and 2011, EU immigrants contributed £8.8 billion more than they gained.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/more-context-needed-these-facts-about-immigration/
title: More context is needed for these “facts about immigration” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s an estimate from a 2013 study. There are lots of ways to calculate economic impact of immigration and no single correct answer to that question.


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
text:
You can receive no fine and a 12 month suspended sentence for possessing 10,000 indecent images of children.

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:
We can’t find a specific case this is referring to, but it is a possibility depending on the nature of the offences.


text: 1.1 million food parcels are given out — 1.1 million people who would starve otherwise.
claimant: Ken Loach
claim_date: 2016-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/over-million-food-parcels-given-trussell-trust-last-year/
title: Over a million food parcels given by Trussell Trust last year - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Trussell Trust did give out 1.1 million parcels last year, but this isn’t the same as the number of people, as people can use food bank vouchers more than once. We don't know how many people nationwide received parcels, but this may be in the right ballpark.


claimant: Publlic
claim_date: 2023-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/McDonalds-pesticide-Monitor-false/
title: McDonald’s french fries are not made from potatoes treated with the pesticide Monitor - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Potatoes are often kept in atmosphere-controlled sheds to preserve them, not to “off-gas”.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Potatoes treated with Monitor are stored in atmosphere-controlled sheds for six weeks after harvesting because they are inedible and need to “off-gas” the chemicals.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/grapefruit-blood-pressure-hypertension-doctors/
title: A grapefruit a day is no substitute for blood pressure medicine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you eat a grapefruit everyday, it will lower your blood pressure such that you won’t need medications.

textual_rating:
Any effect of grapefruit on blood pressure is subtle at best. It generally isn’t able to reduce blood pressure to the same level as most prescribed blood pressure drugs.


claimant: Camilla Tominey
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
text:
Sir John Curtice has said there is absolutely no evidence of a swing in favour of a second referendum.

textual_rating:
Not quite right - Professor Curtice has said that there is some evidence of a swing, but that the evidence is not consistent.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-government-text/
title: This text message is not an official government communication - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not an official government text.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
This text message shows the government is monitoring people leaving the house during coronavirus lockdown.


text: Japan is not taking in refugees.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/japan-refugees/
title: Japan does accept a small number of official refugees - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Japan does accept a small number of officially recognised refugees, but more people are able to stay in Japan under humanitarian grounds.


text: Cocaine use in Britain has doubled in the last five years.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2019-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/has-cocaine-use-really-doubled-five-years/
title: Has cocaine use really doubled in five years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There isn’t enough available evidence to say this. These figures are based on an analysis of wastewater in parts of London and Bristol, which can’t tell us very much about the picture across Britain.


text: People born poor will die nine years earlier than others.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/life-expectancy-and-poverty/
title: Life expectancy and poverty - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is partially correct. Boys born in some of the poorest areas in the UK are expected to live nine years fewer than those in the very richest areas. For girls the figure is seven years.


text: The Tories have scrapped Labour's policy to cap class sizes at 30 pupils.
claimant: Department for Education
claim_date: 2011-12-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/factcheck-has-cap-infant-class-sizes-been-scrapped/
title: Factcheck: Has the cap on infant class sizes been scrapped? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-02-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The cap hasn't been scrapped, but there has been a three-fold increase in oversized classes under the Coalition.


text: 23 people in Norway died after getting the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/norway-vaccine-deaths/
review_date: 2021-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
What you need to know about the claims 23 people died after getting the Covid-19 vaccine in Norway - Full Fact

textual_rating:
True as of 14 January, but we don’t know for certain that getting the vaccine was what caused these people’s deaths. There’s a possibility that side effects of these vaccines, such as nausea and fever, contributed to the deaths of these 23 elderly patients. As of 17 January there had been 33 such deaths.


claimant: Alex Chalk
claim_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/alex-chalk-prison-numbers/
title: The number of band 3-5 prison officers increased by 701 in the year to 30 June 2023 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since 30 June 2023 there’s been an increase of over 700 full-time equivalent band 3 to 5 prison staff.

textual_rating:
This isn’t what the latest available published data shows. The figure appears to refer to the increase in full-time equivalent (FTE) band 3-5 prison officers in the year to 30 June 2023, not since then.


text: The deficit has come down under the Conservatives.
claimant: Karen Bradley
claim_date: 2017-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/government-getting-deficit-down/
title: Is the government getting the deficit down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, the deficit has fallen from 10% of GDP to 2.3% between 2010 and 2017, but the government is far off its original plans for a reaching a surplus.


text: A man armed with a knife is going door to door in local communities and demanding money.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wanted-man-homeless-knife-attack/
title: Post warning communities of a dangerous man in the area are fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Identical posts using the same picture and details have appeared on community Facebook groups in cities around the world. There is no evidence the alleged incidents ever occurred.


text: Vaccines are ineffective.
claimant: Godfrey Bloom
claim_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/godfrey-bloom-ukhsa-covid-cases/
title: Former MEP wrongly uses UK Covid-19 data - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t true. Data in recent months shows vaccination lowers the risk of testing positive for Covid-19 and for having an infection with symptoms.


text: Two Pfizer doses are 99.96% effective.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-pfizer-vaccine-efficacy-israel/
title: Pfizer vaccine effective, though not as effective as newspapers suggest - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Pfizer vaccine has an efficacy rate of over 90%. The 99.96% figure is not an efficacy rate but the proportion of people vaccinated in Israel who did not later test positive for the virus.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-riot-picture-refugee-banner-2016/
title: Picture of refugee banner wasn’t taken in France - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows a photo of a pro-refugee protest in France in 2016 and another of the recent riots in the country.

textual_rating:
The picture of the pro-refugee banner was actually taken in Brussels, Belgium, in 2015. The second picture is from the recent riots in France.


text: Footage shows directed energy weapons which were used to start fires in Maui.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Maui-fires-power-line-explosion-Louisiana-footage/
title: Old footage of power line explosion in US does not show Maui fires starting - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The footage actually shows an explosion along a power line in Louisiana, US, in 2018. There’s no evidence that directed energy weapons started fires in Maui.


claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-spending-mental-health/
title: NHS spending on mental health - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
CCGs increased their spending on mental health by 6.3% last year while their overall funding increased by 3.7%.

textual_rating:
This is the increase in spending by CCGs on mental health compared to their overall core services budget allocation. The figures don’t account for inflation. Factoring that in, mental health spending went up by 3.9% over that time and overall CCG budgets went up by 1.5%.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-map-mad-cow-disease/
title: Areas that voted Brexit weren’t the only ones affected by mad cow disease - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A graphic shows that areas that voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum perfectly align with areas that had mad cow disease outbreaks in 1992.

textual_rating:
This post appears to have originally been shared as a joke. The two maps are exactly the same—both show the result of the 2016 EU referendum, but one has been edited so it is in greyscale.


claimant: Alastair Campbell
claim_date: 2016-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/finland-canada-and-south-korea-rank-highly-education/
title: Finland, Canada and South Korea rank highly for education - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Finland, South Korea and Canada, which all have the most comprehensive systems, have been repeatedly shown to have the best educated children in the world.

textual_rating:
Finland, South Korea and Canada have done consistently well in tests that compare 15 year-olds internationally, although these tests aren’t a perfect guide to the relative performance of different education systems. We haven’t seen definitive evidence that the success of these systems is due to the fact they’re comprehensive.


text: On 2 November it was reported that 293 Covid-19 fatalities were recorded in just 24 hours.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-death-figures-november-2021/
title: 293 ‘daily’ Covid deaths likely cover more than one day after technical issue - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
293 Covid-19 deaths were reported on 2 November, but the government says that due to a technical fault affecting death recording, and more general delays in reporting deaths over the weekend, this data likely covers more than one day.


text: Scotland’s drug-related death rate is the highest in the EU.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-drug-related-deaths-uk-highest-eu/
title: Are drug related deaths in the UK the highest in the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct if you compare Scotland to a league table of EU sovereign countries. This is based on a comparison of the drug-related death rate per million people aged 15 to 64 in 2015 and 2016.


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:
Membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will mean tariffs are slashed on 99.9% of UK exports.

textual_rating:
85.4% of UK exports are already eligible for tariff-free access to the bloc. Joining the CPTPP would increase this to 99.9% of goods.


text: 11.5 million Brits, or one in four, were prescribed addictive drugs last year.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/prescription-drug-dependency/
title: We can’t say how many people are ‘hooked on’ prescription drugs - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct for adults in England in 2017/18. This is the number of people who had received at least one prescription for one of five specific types of potentially addictive drug.


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
textual_rating: He hasn’t said this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Emmanuel Macron said the UK must take its share of migrants, 300,000 now immediately and up to 100,000 every year until the situation is resolved if it wants to remain in the EU.


text: The Treasury expects the UK economy to shrink by 4.9% under a Canada-style deal with the EU.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/canada-deal-gdp/
review_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
No, the Treasury doesn’t expect the economy to shrink if we sign a Canada-style deal with the EU - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The Treasury estimated that a free-trade agreement similar to Canada’s would mean the UK economy grows between 4.9% and 6.7% less over 15 years, than it would have if we had remained in the EU. But that doesn’t mean the economy will shrink.


text: 118,000 care home workers have been tested for Covid-19.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-05-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/government-says-125000-workers-care-settings-and-118000-care-home-residents-have-been-tested-covid-19/

title:
The government says 125,000 workers in care settings and 118,000 care home residents have been tested for Covid-19 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not correct. 118,000 care home residents have been tested for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.


text: Glyphosate causes cancer.
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:
Evidence on whether glyphosate causes cancer seems contradictory. Cancer Research UK told us that there is some evidence that people exposed to very high levels of it could have a slightly increased risk of certain types of cancer.


claimant: David G Mahoney
claim_date: 2020-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/false-claims-about-first-vaccine-recipients-spread-social-media/
title: False claims about first vaccine recipients spread on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The first two patients were not 20 miles apart. They were at the same hospital in Coventry.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The same nurse was pictured vaccinating the first two recipients of the Covid-19 vaccine in the UK, despite them being 20 miles apart.


text: We can leave the EU with no deal and negotiate a free trade agreement during the transition period.
claimant: David Davis
claim_date: 2018-11-19T00:00:00Z
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:
Incorrect. The transition period is part of the withdrawal agreement. Leaving the EU with no deal means there’s no transition period – though we could still try and negotiate a free trade agreement following a no-deal Brexit.


text: The UK government is skewing data collected in a public consultation on lockdown measures.
claimant: Save Our Rights UK
claim_date: 2021-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/government-data-lockdown-yougov-save-our-rights/
title: A ‘government consultation’ isn’t skewing data on lockdowns - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no such government consultation on lockdown measures. The survey described is actually run by YouGov, which is not part of the UK government.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/monkeypox-door-handle-120-years-fake-article/
title: Article about monkeypox living on door handles for 120 years is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
TheJournal.ie published an article claiming monkeypox can live on door handles and toilet seats for 120 years and can infect anyone from five miles away.

textual_rating:
TheJournal.ie never published such an article and the claims made in the headline are completely unevidenced.


text: In Wales you cannot sit in the park on a bench.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wales-england-lockdown-rules/
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
It’s true that recent changes to lockdown rules are slightly different throughout the UK - Full Fact

textual_rating:
When the Facebook post the claim is from was shared the Welsh government said you shouldn’t spend a prolonged period on a park bench. This guidance has now changed slightly and says it’s okay to be out for a walk in a park and to stop to sit down so long as you spend most of the time out of the house exercising.


claimant: Christopher Chope
claim_date: 2021-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/christopher-chope-vaccine-damage-bill/
title: MP makes unevidenced claims about vaccine damage - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Again, there is no available data to substantiate this claim and no source was provided.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Ten thousand or more families have suffered “serious damage” as a result of getting a Covid-19 vaccine.


claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2022-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/penny-mordaunt-dolphins-submarine-badge/
title: Penny Mordaunt was given special permission to wear submariners badge in 2019 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Penny Mordaunt MP was pictured at an event wearing a submariners badge she is not qualified to wear.

textual_rating:
The Royal Navy says it would be inappropriate for a non-submariner to wear submariner’s insignia on a naval uniform. However, Ms Mordaunt was presented with the insignia by the Royal Navy, and was given explicit permission to wear it on civilian clothes during the event at which she’s pictured.


text: The police budget has been protected since 2015.
claimant: Dominic Raab
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:
The England and Wales police budget has been protected since 2015 with increased local taxation making up for reductions in central government funding. If local taxation for the police is maximised in future, police funding overall will be protected.


claimant: Dr Peter A. McCullough
claim_date: 2021-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-myocarditis-false/
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Troponins (proteins released into the bloodstream after myocardial injury) are 10 to 100 times higher after vaccine-acquired myocarditis.

title:
Evidence suggests myocarditis risk after Covid-19 vaccination is lower compared to Covid infection - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no evidence of this. Troponin levels may be as high or even higher after myocarditis acquired by a Covid infection than acquired following vaccination.


text: Rishi Sunak said someone on an income of £24,000 pays income tax of £180.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/sunak-marr-national-insurance-income/
title: Viral tweet on Rishi Sunak’s tax claims got it wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Rishi Sunak was referring to the increase in national insurance someone on £24,000 would have to pay when he mentioned £180, not their total income tax bill.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bus-strokes/
title: This picture of a bus warning about childhood strokes wasn’t taken in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK government/NHS have put posters on buses saying “Kids have strokes too, know the warning signs”.

textual_rating:
The photo was taken in Canada, not the UK. It is part of an awareness campaign by a Canadian charity about strokes in children.


text: Locking down in the early stages of the virus is linked to a reduced excess death toll.
claimant: Financial Times
claim_date: 2020-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/limits-what-we-can-say-about-early-lockdowns/
title: The limits of what we can say about early lockdowns - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This may be true, but showing a correlation between the number of excess deaths and the time of lockdown is not enough evidence to argue this point, as the FT did.


text: Only 138,000 immigrants spoke no English at the last census, less than 0.3% of population.
claimant: Alan Travis
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:
Not quite correct. 138,000 people in the UK spoke no English at the last census, about 0.3% of the population. 118,000 of those people were born outside the UK, 20,000 inside.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nih-pubmed-scamdemic/
title: A US federal agency did not say that Covid-19 was a planned ‘scamdemic’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The US National Institutes of Health’s own website states that Covid-19 was a planned and orchestrated scam-demic.

textual_rating:
No it doesn’t. This was written in an opinion piece that can be found by searching PubMed, a database maintained by the NIH. It was not published by, or funded by the NIH.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Edinburgh-emissions-camera-no-enforcement/
title: Emissions camera in Edinburgh is not linked to fines or points - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows a camera in Edinburgh that can detect a vehicle’s emissions, speed, acceleration and number plates. The post also suggests the camera may cause people to receive points and fines.

textual_rating:
This is a part of an EDAR (Emissions Detector and Reporter) system. Transport Scotland has confirmed that the device monitors emissions and no enforcement is associated with it.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/infosys-india-trade-deal/
title: Was Rishi Sunak’s in-laws’ company a ‘beneficiary’ of a UK-India trade deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
When Boris Johnson did a £1 billion trade deal with India in May 2021, the main beneficiary was Infosys, owned by Rishi Sunak’s wife and family.

textual_rating:
The government announced £1 billion worth of trade and investment made by private companies between the UK and India. This included BP working for Infosys, and Infosys being one of three Indian companies creating 1,000 UK jobs.


text: There has been an annual £40 billion tax drop because of Brexit.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-revenue-Brexit/
title: The UK’s tax revenue isn’t £40 billion less than it used to be ‘because of Brexit’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is based on a counterfactual estimate of the extra amount of tax revenue that might have been generated annually had the UK not voted to leave the EU. The actual amount of tax revenue generated in the UK has increased.


text: The cost of living for young people is made more expensive by government intervention and taxes.
claimant: Chloe Westley
claim_date: 2018-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-are-young-people-taxed/
title: How much are young people taxed? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Under 25s paid about 19% of their income in taxes in 2016/17. Other government interventions may have had indirect effects on the cost of living.


text: Luxembourg benefits the most from being in the EU, getting back 3,304% of what it pays in.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/luxembourg-eu-payments/
title: Is Luxembourg the biggest beneficiary of the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The amount that Luxembourg received in EU spending in 2018 was roughly 105% of what it paid in to the EU budget. 16 other EU countries received a higher level of spending—relative to what they paid in—than Luxembourg.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2021-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-increase-covid-expose-false/
title: Covid vaccines have not caused four times as many deaths as all other vaccines combined - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The MHRA has confirmed deaths due to Covid-19 vaccines in 10 months are 330% higher than deaths due to all other vaccines in the past 20 years.

textual_rating:
The MHRA did not say this. These statistics are based on reports sent to the regulator’s Yellow Card scheme, which does not confirm whether someone died from a vaccine. The MHRA also says deaths after Covid vaccines cannot be reliably compared with deaths after other vaccines, as there may be differences in reporting.


text: A million people accessed a food bank last year and only 40,000 did so in 2010.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/food-banks-hard-say-whether-rising-use-reflects-rising-demand/
title: Food banks: hard to say whether rising use reflects rising demand - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A million food packs were given out by the Trussell Trust last year, and 40,000 in 2010. One million people using all food banks in the country is plausible, but we don’t have complete figures.


text: The government will raise the state pension age from 67 to 75 by 2035.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2019-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/not-government-policy-state-pension/
title: It’s not government policy to raise the pension age to 75 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was recommended in a report by the Centre for Social Justice think tank. The Department for Work and Pensions told us it is not government policy to do this.


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:
People pay for tariffs set by the EU every time they shop—and the government collects the money and sends it to Brussels.

textual_rating:
Correct. A proportion of this money is then spent in the UK on EU-funded projects, though less than most other EU countries.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/video-Nigerian-embassy-Niger-coup/
title: Video of burning building is not the Nigerian embassy in Niger - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows an assault on the Nigerian embassy in Niamey, Niger, by protesters supporting a military coup in July.

textual_rating:
This is not the Nigerian embassy. The video shows an attack on the headquarters of the deposed Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism on 27 July.


claimant: Sarah Wollaston MP
claim_date: 2015-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-disadvantaged-children-twice-likely-be-obese/
title: Are disadvantaged children twice as likely to be obese? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One in four of the most disadvantaged children leave primary school obese, twice the rate for the most advantaged.

textual_rating:
That's right. Of year 6 pupils who go to school in the most deprived tenth of areas, 25% are classed as obese, compared to 13% for children in the least deprived tenth.


text: A woman dressed as a nurse has snatched a newborn baby from various hospitals around the UK.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/baby-snatch-hospital-nurse-woman/
title: Viral posts about a baby being snatched from a hospital are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The incident pictured did not take place in the UK. The image appears to relate to an alleged baby snatching incident in the Philippines in 2016.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/boris-johnson-starmer-48-votes-brexit-repeat-claim/
review_date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Keir Starmer voted 48 times to overturn the will of the British people and take us back into the European Union.

title:
Boris Johnson repeats false claim about Keir Starmer voting 48 times to ‘take us back’ into the EU - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. The figure appears to be based on how Mr Starmer voted in 48 votes related to Brexit. But some of these votes were not about whether Britain should be part of the EU, and all but three took place before Britain left the EU. Mr Starmer has often opposed the Government in Brexit votes, but has also voted a number of times in support of Brexit.


claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/labour-eleven-million-rent/
title: There are 11 million people in the private rented sector - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The numbers on the scale of private renting are accurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since 2010 a million more households are stuck renting from a private landlord. More than 11 million people rent from a private landlord and many of them are at the sharp end of the housing crisis.


text: You can’t do anything without risking a heart attack now.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-07-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/heart-attack-articles/
title: Articles about heart attack risks do not show causality - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The articles used to support this claim do not prove that certain factors are causing heart attacks, or that the risk of heart attacks is increasing. The post may imply heart attacks are connected to Covid-19 vaccines, but there is no evidence of this.


text: This is an experimental injection, it hasn’t had phase three trials completed.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/do-not-resuscitate-video/
title: Viral video includes lots of false claims and half truths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Analyses of data from phase three trials for all three Covid-19 vaccines authorised for use in the UK have been published in peer-reviewed studies in medical journals.


text: £1 in every £10 that goes to the NHS is to pay off debts from Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs).
claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2017-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/what-nhs-paying-private-finance-initiatives/
title: What is the NHS paying for Private Finance Initiatives? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct according to the latest cost estimates. These suggest ongoing annual costs are about 2% of the NHS budget, or £1 in every £55.


text: A video shows recent Russian attacks on Ukraine.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lightning-video-ukraine/
title: Lightning strike video doesn’t show war in Ukraine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video appeared online in January 2022, so is not from the invasion of Ukraine which started on 24 February.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/smiley-face-oregon-trees-real/
title: Photo of smiley face in forest is real - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Larch trees planted in a Douglas fir forest in Oregon create a smiley face among the woodland every autumn.

textual_rating:
It’s true. They were deliberately planted by the owners of a lumber forest. The needles of the larch trees planted there turn yellow every autumn and create an image of a smiley face.


claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/andrew-bridgen-vaccine-safety-debate/
title: Andrew Bridgen's vaccine debate claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A report by the Journal of the American Medical Association, looking at Covid-19 vaccination of children under five, showed that one in 200 had an adverse event that resulted in hospitalisation.

textual_rating:
We could not fully replicate these figures from the study in question, but in any event it’s important to note the adverse events which were reported were not proven to be caused by the vaccine. The authors of the paper found the frequency of adverse events after Covid-19 vaccination was comparable with that after non-Covid vaccination.


claimant: Mishal Husain, BBC Today programme
claim_date: 2016-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/humanitarian-aid-syria-2015/
title: Humanitarian aid to Syria in 2015 - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nearly half of the aid sent to Syria came from the US and UK compared to 1% or less for other countries such as Saudi Arabia and Japan.

textual_rating:
That was correct of one of the UN's funds. Taking the two main funds together the UK and US made up 38% of funding, and Japan gave just under 3%.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/injured-dog-facebook-hoax-eastbourne/
title: Hoax injured dog post shared more than 1,000 times - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Rescuers are looking for information about the owner of a dog that was found injured in a hit and run.

textual_rating:
This is not a real appeal. The same post has been shared in many different community groups, and it closely resembles other false posts we’ve seen in the past.


text: 58% think the Chequers deal disrespects the result of the referendum.
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 39%.


text: Bill Gates’ polio vaccine permanently disabled 47,000 children in India.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gates-polio-vaccine/
title: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wasn’t kicked out of India - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on a paper which claims that the polio vaccine increases the incidence of paralysis caused by things that aren’t polio. This is far from certain.


claimant: Howard Davies
claim_date: 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eu-nurses/
title: Where have all the (EU) nurses gone? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A new English language test has been introduced for nurses which means that some people who would otherwise have been able to practice can’t.

textual_rating:
English language tests have been a requirement for nurses from outside of the EU since 2005. In January 2016 these were extended to include nurses from the EU/EEA. It’s been cited as one of a number of reasons, including Brexit, behind falling nursing recruitment.


claimant: Dr Peter A. McCullough
claim_date: 2021-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-myocarditis-false/
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Myocarditis acquired after a Covid-19 vaccination is more dangerous than that acquired after a Covid infection.

title:
Evidence suggests myocarditis risk after Covid-19 vaccination is lower compared to Covid infection - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Evidence actually shows you’re at greater risk of myocarditis after Covid-19 infection and may experience worse clinical outcomes.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cholesterol-PCI-statins/
title: Cholesterol treatments can save lives and don’t cause dementia - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Statins cause mental and cognitive decline, and dementia and Alzheimer’s risk is increased by low cholesterol.

textual_rating:
The evidence is mixed in this area but does not support such authoritative claims. The highest quality evidence we have shows no difference in dementia risk in people taking statins.


text: In October, Test and Trace was reducing R by between 0.3 and 0.6.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-trace-transmission-reduction-dido-harding/
title: We don’t know how much Test and Trace affects the spread of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know this for sure. A small part of the reduction certainly came from Test and Trace. Some of the rest came from people with symptoms self-isolating anyway.


text: Roughly 40% of people on welfare are pensioners, and 10% or 20% are taking in-work benefits.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2017-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-40-welfare-claimants-pensioners/
title: Are 40% of welfare claimants pensioners? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We haven’t found figures to back this up. Around 56% of all welfare spending in Great Britain went to pensioners in 2016/17, counting pensions as part of the welfare bill.


text: Women aren’t allowed to breastfeed babies in the House of Commons.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/breastfeeding-house-commons/
title: Can MPs breastfeed in the House of Commons? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Breastfeeding is not allowed in the House of Commons chamber and committees, though it is allowed in other areas of the Palace of Westminster.


text: The percentage of the UK population who have received a booster vaccine is double that of the EU.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-european-booster-rollout/
title: UK booster roll out level twice the EU average - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Broadly correct. As of 12-14 December, 35% of the UK population and 19% of the EU population had been boosted.


text: Keir Starmer has voted 48 times to take the UK back into the European Union.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/keir-starmer-48-votes-brexit/
title: Keir Starmer hasn’t voted 48 times to take the UK back into the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. The figure appears to be based on how Mr Starmer voted in 48 votes related to Brexit. But some of these votes were not about whether Britain should be part of the EU, and all but three took place before Britain left the EU. Mr Starmer has often opposed the Government in Brexit votes, but has also voted a number of times in support of Brexit.


text: Infant injections contain neurotoxins.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccines-infants-neurotoxins-honey/
title: Misleading post suggests vaccinating babies involves injecting them with ‘neurotoxins’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While some vaccines contain substances that may be neurotoxic in high amounts, many also occur naturally and the levels in vaccines are too low to cause any harm.


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: Incorrect. Covid-19 is caused by a virus, called SARS-CoV-2, not 5G.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Italy has concluded Covid-19 is not a virus, and people are actually dying of amplified global 5G electromagnetic radiation poisoning.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-08T00:00:00Z
title: Old photo of bed attached to bicycle is not the world’s first ambulance service - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo of a bicycle-like vehicle, with an attached bed for carrying patients, depicts the first ambulance service.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/old-photo-of-bed-attached-to-bicycle-is-not-the-worlds-first-ambulance-service/

textual_rating:
The photo is from 1941 whereas (in the UK at least) ambulance services began forming during the 19th century.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wef-not-demanding-unvaccinated-pilots/
title: The WEF hasn’t required unvaccinated pilots for Davos delegates - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The WEF has confirmed that this is false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Economic Forum required that pilots flying visitors to its annual meeting in Davos had to be unvaccinated.


claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/what-has-leader-fire-safety-review-said-about-cladding-ban/
title: What has the leader of the fire safety review said about a cladding ban? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The leader of the government’s independent review into building regulations and fire safety said she didn’t think it was her job to call for the banning of combustible materials in cladding.

textual_rating:
Correct, she said she didn’t think it was her role to go into “the detail of individual regulations or the specifics of the guidance”. She welcomed the government’s consultation on a ban but has also raised concerns that a ban might “create a false sense of security”.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-telephone-triage/
title: Will you have to prove you need to see your GP? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Hundreds of GPs are asking patients to prove they need face-to-face appointments in a three-minute telephone call, before they see them.

textual_rating:
We haven’t seen evidence that GPs are asking patients to prove they need to see them over the telephone. Some people do have concerns about whether taking initial consultations over the phone provides the best quality of care, saves GPs time overall, or saves the NHS money.


text: MPs would need to approve British military action in Syria.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2015-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/mps-dont-have-approve-military-action-syria/
title: MPs don't have to approve military action in Syria - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Legally, the government doesn't need the permission of Parliament to use military force. But there is a convention that it will consult MPs before doing so, where possible, and abide by the outcome of their vote.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-06-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/boris-johnson-gatt-article-24/
title: Boris Johnson repeats an old line about “GATT Article 24” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We can get a standstill in our current trade arrangements with the EU under Article 24 of GATT, while we negotiate a free trade agreement.

textual_rating:
Article 24 does not remove the need to strike a deal with the EU, and experts have said an agreement using this is unlikely to happen.


text: More than 2,000 more fully qualified staff working in mental health trusts since 2013.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-staff-nhs/
title: Mental health staff in the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Working for a mental health trust doesn’t mean you work on mental health. This figure hides the detail: mental health nurse numbers in England are down, while staff in the scientific, therapeutic and technical group has gone up.


text: Unemployment in the West Midlands Combined Authority has risen by 25% in a year.
claimant: Liam Byrne MP
claim_date: 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/west-midlands-unemployment/
title: MP’s claim about rising unemployment in the West Midlands is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The unemployment rate in the area decreased from 6.7% to 5.9% between 2017/18 and 2018/19.


text: The UK is the USA’s largest European export market.
claimant: Donald Trump
claim_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-us-trading-and-investment/
title: UK-US trading and investment: a special relationship - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. 6% of all US exports came to the UK in 2018, making it the top export market in Europe and behind only Canada, Mexico and China globally.


text: Pensioners are getting £1,250 more a year than they did when the Conservatives entered government.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/1250-more-year-pensioners/
title: £1,250 more a year for pensioners - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Pensioners who receive the full basic state pension in 2017/18 are getting £1,250 more in cash per year than those receiving it in 2010/11. However, in real terms the increase is only £558.82 extra per year, and only for pensioners receiving the full basic state pension.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/MHRA-yellow-card-poster/
title: Poster about Yellow Card scheme is not real - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Yellow Card data will allow the vaccines to move out of the phase 3 clinical trials and be granted full approval.

textual_rating:
Yellow Card data isn’t required for the vaccines to “move out of” phase 3 trials. Phase 3 trials for the vaccines have reported their main findings, and participants will be followed up for several years.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fake-bbc-article-heart-attack-breating/
title: ‘BBC article’ claiming shallow breathing increases risk of heart attack is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The article is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A BBC News article reports that breathing too many times a day could raise your risk of a heart attack.


text: A photo shows riots taking place under the Eiffel Tower “right now”.
claimant: PUBLIC
claim_date: 2023-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/France-riots-false-Euro-final-2016/
title: Eiffel Tower ‘riot’ photo is actually from Euro 2016 final - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo comes from 2016 when unrest broke out near the Eiffel Tower during the 2016 European Championship final.


text: Most people made homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire are not in permanent accommodation.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/two-thirds-former-grenfell-households-are-not-permanent-homes/
title: Two thirds of former Grenfell households are not in permanent homes - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Just under two-thirds of the 210 households who were residents of Grenfell Tower or Grenfell Walk are not in permanent accommodation.


text: The number of social rented homes fell by 420,000 under Labour.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labours-affordable-housing-record/
title: Labour's affordable housing record - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This refers to all homes rented from councils and housing associations. We don’t know what exactly happened to homes for the cheapest “social rent” specifically under Labour, but more of them were built on average between 1997 and 2010 than since 2010.


text: Fenbendazole, the main ingredient in some dog wormers, kills almost every cancer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/fenbendazole-no-evidence-cancer-cure/
title: Insufficient evidence fenbendazole cures cancer says Cancer Research UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Cancer Research UK says there’s insufficient evidence that fenbendazole can cure cancer or is safe for humans.


text: The super-rich and big corporations dodge £90 billion in tax every year.
claimant: Zarah Sultana
claim_date: 2020-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-gap-asylum-benefits/
title: Comparing tax dodging and benefits for people seeking asylum - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is an unofficial estimate of the total tax gap. The figures are disputed and do not just cover tax dodging by the super-rich and big corporations.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/poppy-not-selling-false/
review_date: 2019-10-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is incorrect. The Royal British Legion has routinely stated this is untrue.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Royal British Legion will not be selling poppies in certain places this year due to “upset minorities”.

title:
The Royal British Legion is not stopping poppy sales in certain areas due to “upset minorities” - Full Fact


text: Wages are rising at their fastest rate for a decade.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2018-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wage-growth-only-fastest-decade-if-you-ignore-inflation/
title: Wage growth is only the fastest in a decade if you ignore inflation - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-12-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct but it doesn’t account for inflation. When you factor in rising prices, real wage growth is at its highest in two years.


text: Zara just made a decision in France not to let any women wearing hijab enter their stores.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/zara-hasnt-banned-women-wearing-hijab-from-its-stores/
title: Zara hasn’t banned women wearing hijab from its stores - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This claim originally dates from 2015, but it was not Zara’s company policy then and isn’t now. There was an incident in 2015 at one store in Paris when staff denied entry to a Muslim woman, but they were later sanctioned by the company for this.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-11-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/JD-wetherspoon-fake-offer/
title: Wetherspoons still not offering free ‘meal for two’ Facebook deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Everyone who shares or comments on a Facebook post shared by a Wetherspoons account is entitled to a free meal for two to celebrate the retirement of the chain’s boss, Tim Martin and him handing the business to his son Ryan.

textual_rating:
Wetherspoons has confirmed that no such offer exists, and the pub chain doesn’t have any official social media accounts. The man in the image is not Tim Martin’s son, but a Conservative MP.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wales-england-lockdown-rules/
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is correct as of 11 May.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In Wales you can exercise near your home more than once a day if you wish but only with members of your household.

title:
It’s true that recent changes to lockdown rules are slightly different throughout the UK - Full Fact


text: Life expectancy has stopped increasing in some areas and fallen in others.
claimant: Debbie Abrahams
claim_date: 2017-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pension-changes-mean-thirty-seven-million/
title: Do pension changes mean 37 million people working longer? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s correct that the life expectancy figures in some areas of the UK have stopped increasing. Figures have slightly decreased in other areas, but it's premature to say that life expectancy is falling in reality due to the margin of error.


text: The average term of a government since the Second World War is 3.7 years.
claimant: Theo Paphitis
claim_date: 2019-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/how-long-does-average-government-last/
title: How long does the average government last? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct if you count the current government, which is still in office. Looking only at completed governments, the mean average is 3.8 years and the median is 4.1 years.


text: The Queen’s funeral will cost around £6 billion.
claimant: London Evening Standard
claim_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/queen-funeral-costs/
title: How much will the Queen’s funeral cost? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure could represent the cost to the UK economy of two bank holidays, for the funeral and the coronation of King Charles. However it almost certainly does not reflect the direct costs of these events, as it is hundreds of times larger than the cost of any other recent royal funeral.


text: Lateral flow tests show a positive result with things like cola and orange juice.
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:
This is inaccurate. While testing food stuffs can return what appears to be a positive result, this is a misuse of the test and returns an invalid result.


claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-conservatives-refuse-support-6500-british-shipbuilding-jobs/
title: Did the Conservatives refuse to support 6500 British shipbuilding jobs? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Tories just refused to support 6500 jobs and £1 billion for our economy by not guaranteeing that 3 new Royal Navy ships will be built in Britain.

textual_rating:
These numbers assume that if a British shipbuilder won the contract, they would exclusively use British labour and goods. That’s uncertain. The £1 billion estimate is unconfirmed.


claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/doing-sterling-job-how-uks-employment-record-compares-eu/
title: Doing a sterling job? How the UK’s employment record compares to the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since 2010, we’ve created more jobs than France, Spain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Norway combined.

textual_rating:
That was correct for the first quarter of 2018, but based on the available data for the second quarter it’s not likely to be correct anymore. It refers to overall changes in employment, including people who move into and out of work.


text: Illegal immigrants receive welfare benefits.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/illegal-immigrants-homeless-veterans/
title: Claims about 47,000 homeless veterans need context - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Those people in the country illegally or seeking asylum are prevented from claiming mainstream benefits. Destitute asylum seekers are given accommodation and some money towards living expenses.


text: A new YouGov poll shows 62% of people think that Brexit is a bad thing.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2020-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-support-poll/
title: Daily Mirror misrepresents research on public support for Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The poll shows that 50% of GB adults think Britain was wrong to leave the EU, and a further 12% don’t know.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Italy-Euro-final-yellow-cards/
title: Italy aren’t going to be disqualified from Euro 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Italy fielded a player in the Euro 2020 final who shouldn’t have been playing due to receiving a yellow card in the quarter-final.

textual_rating:
False. No Italian player received two yellow cards to warrant suspension before the final, and yellow cards expired after the quarter-finals anyway.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/russia-autopsy-covid-5g/
title: Claims about Russia, Covid-19 and 5G are almost all false - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 can be cured by antibiotic tablets, anti-inflammatory and taking anticoagulants such as aspirin.

textual_rating:
While the anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen has been tested in Covid-19 patients and the anticoagulant heparin has been used to treat some patients, it is misleading to say they “cure” the disease. Antibiotics are not used to directly treat viruses and aspirin can be used as pain relief in adults but not as a cure for Covid-19.


claimant: Vernon Coleman
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Vernon-Coleman-Trafalgar-Square-conspiracy-claims-false/
title: Trafalgar Square “Freedom Rally” speech littered with false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There have been no tests to assess the safety of combining or overlapping Covid-19 and flu vaccines.

textual_rating:
There have been a number of studies. Research suggests they’re safe and effective. Further work into their combination is ongoing.


text: The national debt almost tripled under the last Labour government.
claimant: Sajid Javid
claim_date: 2017-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-and-conservative-records-national-debt/
title: Labour and Conservative records on the national debt - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct in cash terms, but after adjusting for inflation it’s more like doubled than tripled. Public sector net debt, adjusted for inflation, rose by 125% between 1996/97 and 2009/10 – mostly after the recession that began in 2008.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/supermarket-pay-image/
title: Supermarket pay image—where do the figures come from? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Taxpayers are subsidising low paid workers at Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons by almost £1 billion a year via working tax credits and housing benefits.

textual_rating:
We can’t verify these figures, but we know they’re out of date. Citizens UK—which produced a report that the figures have been taken from—says they should not be used as a reflection of the situation today.


text: An auto ticket generating system will issue you with a six point penalty.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
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 said they weren’t aware of any new systems on these roads. Breaking the speed limit can result in a fine of at least £100 and three points on your licence. Speed cameras can’t automatically issue points, but can trigger the process to issuing these fines and points.


text: NHS staff at the top of band 5 earned £27,534 a year in 2010 and £30,112 a year in 2020.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/september-2020-nhs-pay/
title: Pay for some nurses has fallen in real terms since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. These are the salaries of NHS staff at the top of band 5 in England in 2010/11 and 2019/20.


text: US patent number CA2741523 is for swine flu.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/us-patents-on-viruses/
title: Viral image about patents for viruses is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the application number for a patent for the Ebola virus made to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. This patent has not been granted, and doesn’t mean the Ebola virus was created by someone.


text: Studies show one third of insects raised to be eaten cause disease in humans.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bugs-chitin-health/
title: Eating bugs hasn’t been shown to cause cancer or lung disease - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A study found parasites that could potentially cause disease in humans in insects from one third of the farms they sampled. But a large number of the farms used unhygienic practices, and the research didn’t assess if eating the insects could or would actually cause disease.


text: Ursula von der Leyen is the new EU President.
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:
There is no such thing as an “EU president”. Ms von der Leyen has been nominated to be President of the European Commission, one of the EU’s three main institutions. This needs to be confirmed by a majority of MEPs.


text: Four million people have diabetes.
claimant: Diabetes UK
claim_date: 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/four-million-people-have-diabetesprobably/
title: Four million people have diabetes—probably - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems about right. We can only be sure about the three and a half million people diagnosed with diabetes. Another half a million may be undiagnosed, according to estimates.


text: The Covid-19 vaccine was only tested on completely healthy people.
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
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The trials of the Covid-19 vaccines did include groups of people with certain medical conditions. We are also finding out more about this through post authorisation monitoring.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/telegraph-protests-disruption/
title: The public dislikes disruptive protests—but less than the Telegraph says - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The public thinks disruption caused by protests is “completely unacceptable” by a ratio of five to one.

textual_rating:
This is a misleading way to read the data. The balance is more like three to one against “serious disruption”, and less strongly against “minor inconvenience”.


text: 60% of people in poverty are in work.
claimant: Angela Eagle
claim_date: 2023-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/eagle-in-work-poverty/
title: Around 60% of people in poverty live in households where at least one adult is in work - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not quite right. While studies show that about 60% of people in relative poverty live in a household where at least one adult is in work, the latest government data for 2021/22 shows that for working age adults in poverty, 44% are in work.


text: Six million workers are paid below the living wage.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2015-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/six-million-jobs-pay-below-living-wage/
title: Six million jobs pay below the living wage - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Last year six million <I>jobs</I> were paid below the living wage, but some people have more than one job. We've got hold of some new figures suggesting at least 5.4 million <I>people</I> were paid less than the living wage.


text: Jeremy Corbyn said he’d abolish student debt before the election.
claimant: Kwasi Kwarteng
claim_date: 2017-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/student-debt-what-did-labour-say/
title: Student debt: what did Labour say? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Corbyn said he would “deal with it” in some way, and was looking at ways to reduce it, or abolish it, but also said there wasn’t a firm policy on it. Some media outlets and other MPs went further.


text: Under the new withdrawal agreement, EU courts have jurisdiction over the UK.
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
textual_rating:
Nothing has changed on this compared to Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement, but the European Court of Justice would have jurisdiction on some rules in Northern Ireland.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/AI-macron-picture-france-riots/
title: Picture of Emmanuel Macron in front of fire is AI-generated - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is an AI-generated image.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
French President Emmanuel Macron has been photographed in front of a fire during the recent riots in his country.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ppe-shipment-dover-immigrants/
title: There’s no evidence immigrants caused a PPE shipment to be destroyed at Dover - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence this happened, and the authorities at the port say the claims are false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A PPE shipment was destroyed at the Port of Dover after illegal immigrants were found travelling alongside it.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/telegraph-suspending-parliament/
title: The Telegraph’s poll figures on suspending parliament are misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson has the support of more than half of the public to deliver Brexit by any means, including suspending Parliament, according to a poll.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The poll showed that 44%, not a majority, agreed with the statement. There are also other problems with the poll.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-12-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/49-fuel-voucher-energy-suppliers/
title: Energy companies won’t automatically give struggling customers £49 vouchers - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Anyone struggling financially, with less than £4 on a prepayment energy meter, can call their energy supplier and ask for a £49 fuel voucher twice a year.

textual_rating:
Energy companies can help customers facing difficulty paying their bill, but there is no guarantee you will receive a £49 voucher.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-dog-truck-worthing/
title: Image of dog ‘hit by truck’ in Worthing was taken in 2018 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows a dog that someone hit with their truck in Worthing. The dog can’t stand, isn’t microchipped and his owner is being sought out.

textual_rating:
This is a false appeal. The picture was taken from a 2018 article about a dog that was hit on the M1.


text: People who haven’t had the Covid-19 vaccine are not dying.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/unjabbed-arent-dying/
title: Unvaccinated people are among those dying of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Sadly they are. In the UK, hundreds of unvaccinated people died with Covid-19 in the last few weeks of 2021 alone. They are also more likely to die of Covid-19 than vaccinated people.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/a-e-waiting-times-better-or-worse/
title: A&E waiting times: better or worse? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, measuring patient attendances from 2009/10 to 2015/16.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Two and a half thousand more people every day are being treated within four hours in A&E departments.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-dunblane-guns/
title: Boris Johnson handgun quote is real - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Responding to new laws banning handguns in the wake of the Dunblane Massacre, Boris Johnson wrote “Nanny is confiscating their toys. It is like one of those vast Indian programmes of compulsory vasectomy.”


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2020-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/social-care-importance/
title: Poll shows public thinks Brexit and NHS are most important issues facing the country - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A survey found almost three quarters of voters believe social care should be a high priority for the government.

textual_rating:
Correct, though the survey was of UK adults, not just voters.  The list of issues respondents were asked about was also far from comprehensive. Other polling shows Brexit and the NHS are the most important issues to the public overall.


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2018-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/robbery-uk-world-leader/
title: Robbery: Is the UK a “world leader”? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The robbery rate shot up by 10% in a year - more than any of 12 other nations examined by the Home Office

textual_rating:
Broadly correct. The number of recorded robberies in England and Wales increased by 10% and the robbery rate by 9% between 2015 and 2016. That’s more than in any of the other 12 countries examined by Home Office analysis.


text: The UK poverty rate is 23.2%, higher than countries including Spain, Greece Italy and Portugal.
claimant: Spectator Index
claim_date: 2019-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uks-poverty-rate-around-average-eu/
title: The UK’s poverty rate is around average for the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This compares two different measures of poverty. By one measure the UK poverty rate is estimated to be 23.2%, but on the comparable measure in this case it is around 17%, roughly the EU average.


text: That translates to £135 million a week.
claimant: Department for Education
claim_date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/school-funding-figures-context/
title: The government’s education funding figures need context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
School funding in England will be £135 million a week higher by 2022/23, not throughout the three years. After adjusting for inflation, this amounts to £82.7 million a week.


text: Last year, Tory MPs promised, budgeted and voted into law a 2.1% pay rise for NHS staff.
claimant: Jonathan Ashworth MP
claim_date: 2021-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-pay-rise-march-2021/
title: Clearing up the NHS pay debate - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite right. Parliament passed a law which committed the government to providing a minimum level of funding for the NHS each year until 2023/24. But it didn’t specify how exactly that money would be spent.


claimant: The Truth is Where
claim_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/daily-expose-covid-deaths-vaccine-deaths/
title: Vaccine deaths are not higher than Covid-19 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Official data shows twice as many people have died due to the Covid-19 vaccines in six months than people who have died of Covid-19 in 15 months.

textual_rating:
This is completely untrue, and is based on misleading conclusions drawn from official data. It only counts Covid-19 deaths in England with no underlying conditions, and misuses reports of deaths after Covid-19 vaccines where no causal link can be proven.


title: Pretty Little Thing products can contain lead, but probably not dangerous amounts - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pretty Little Thing’s terms and conditions state that its products may contain chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/pretty-little-thing-products-can-contain-lead-probably-not-dangerous-amounts/

textual_rating:
This is true, it says they may contain lead. The amounts contained are probably not dangerous though.


text: The EU budgeted up to €3.9 billion in 2014 for spending that could be used to promote itself.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2015-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/how-much-does-eu-spend-promoting-itself/
title: How much does the EU spend on promoting itself? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The EU did spend money on promoting itself, and some EU publications certainly appear biased. But we can't put a precise figure on "propaganda" spending.


text: Doctor patient confidentiality no longer exists.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/control-of-diseases-act-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Doctors can tell the authorities if they suspect you have a notifiable infectious disease.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The Control of Diseases Act was not changed in April to say you can be forcibly vaccinated - Full Fact


text: Over 3 million UK jobs are linked to our exports to the EU - that’s one in every ten UK jobs.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/stronger-facts-leaflet-jobs/
title: Stronger In "facts" leaflet: jobs - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Estimates show around 3 million jobs are linked to our trade with other EU countries, but don’t tell us anything about the number of jobs linked to British membership of the EU. Nobody is forecasting that these 3 million jobs would be lost if we left the EU.


text: An un-edited photo shows a skull-shaped cloud seen in California.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-skull-cloud/
review_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This image is fake and the skull comes from an Iron Maiden album cover.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
That viral photo of a cloud that looks like a skull was taken from a heavy metal album cover - Full Fact


claimant: Christopher Chope
claim_date: 2022-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-safety-westminster-debate/
title: MPs' vaccine debate fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Coroners up and down the country have found in their reports that deaths have been caused directly by Covid-19 vaccines.

textual_rating:
This is true. There were 47 such deaths in England and none in Wales up to September 2022. In Scotland over the same period there have been nine. There has been one registered death in Northern Ireland up to the end of March 2022.


claimant: Chuka Umunna MP
claim_date: 2016-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/fees-employment-tribunals/
title: Fees for employment tribunals - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservatives introduced employment tribunal fees that stop workers from getting justice when treated unfairly.

textual_rating:
The Coalition government introduced these fees, which can be repaid if cases are successful, but seem to have led to a big fall in number of people using employment tribunals.


text: Wet sand was used to fill multiple potholes along King Charles’s coronation procession route.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sand-potholes-coronation-false/
title: Sand was not used to fill potholes along the coronation procession route - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. Westminster City Council says the sand was used to prevent horses from slipping on manhole, drain and inspection covers, but no potholes were filled.


claimant: The People Vs The Government, DWP and Atos
claim_date: 2018-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/pensioners-eu-uk/
title: Do pensioners in the rest of the EU get more cash than the elderly in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The maximum weekly state pension is £141 in the UK, £507 in Germany, £304 in France, and £513 in Spain.

textual_rating:
The figures for the UK, Spain and France are in the right ballpark, but differences between their pension systems means it’s not a fair comparison. Germany doesn’t have a maximum amount for its state pension.


text: Only 8% of schools have received air monitors that were promised by the government.
claimant: The Observer
claim_date: 2021-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/observer-air-monitor-twitter-poll/
title: Observer Twitter poll data on air monitors is meaningless - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This data comes from a Twitter poll which means it is meaningless, as we can’t be sure who answered it or whether they were representative of schools.


text: 15% of world trade is conducted through the EU.
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:
EU members are responsible for an estimated 15% of the global trade in goods (so excluding services). But only trade between two EU member states would count as being conducted through the EU—so the actual figure for goods will be lower than this.


claimant: Sarah Olney
claim_date: 2023-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-workforce-trainees/
title: Are GP numbers rising or falling? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of GPs has gone down since the last election, and there are 850 fewer GPs in the country than there were in 2019.

textual_rating:
This refers to the number of FTE fully qualified GPs in England, so doesn’t count trainees. It is not correct if you consider the total number of GPs including trainees, which is up since the election in December 2019.


text: Ireland’s test and trace system costs £773,000.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ireland-uk-tracing-app/
title: This comparison of the cost of the Irish and UK contact tracing systems is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This is just the initial development cost of the contact tracing app, not the entire test and trace system.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/councils-arent-using-pre-filled-postal-ballots-suppress-youth-vote/
title: Councils aren’t using pre-filled postal ballots to suppress the youth vote - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Postal ballots date of birth section is being pre-filled with the year starting “19”, and this could suppress young voter turnout.

textual_rating:
Postal voters should receive a ballot with the correct first two digits of their year of birth prefilled; this is to prevent people from erroneously writing the wrong date.

If they do receive a ballot with the wrong first two digits, they should just cross them out and write the correct ones.


claimant: The Hal Turner Show
claim_date: 2021-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/japan-not-using-ivermectin-instead-vaccines-treat-covid-19/
title: Japan is not using ivermectin instead of vaccines to treat Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Japan stopped its vaccine rollout, treated people with ivermectin and ended Covid-19 almost overnight.

textual_rating:
This is false. Japan is continuing its vaccine rollout. Ivermectin is not an approved treatment for Covid-19 in the country.


text: We get less than half of this back and have no control over how it’s spent.
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
textual_rating:
Based on the money actually paid to the EU less than half comes back as funding in the UK, which is ultimately controlled at EU level and mainly spent on farmers and poorer areas.


text: Germany has accepted 800,00 Syrian refugees.
claimant: George Eaton
claim_date: 2015-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/ask-full-fact-germany-hasnt-accepted-800000-syrian-refugees/
title: Ask Full Fact: Germany hasn't accepted 800,000 Syrian refugees - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Germany will end up accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees, both from Syria and the wider world, but 800,000 Syrians accepted to date is way off.


text: This video shows accurate footage of Keir Starmer’s reaction to being questioned on Brexit.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/keir-starmer-gmb/
review_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect. The footage has been edited to make it seem as though Mr Starmer does not respond.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
This footage of Keir Starmer being interviewed on Good Morning Britain was edited before being posted by the Conservative party - Full Fact


text: No vaccine has ever been proven effective.
claimant: Kate Shemirani
claim_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kate-shemirani-childhood-vaccines/
title: Kate Shemirani makes several false claims about childhood vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
All vaccines used in the UK have been proven effective in stringent testing. We have decades of efficacy data for many common vaccines.


text: Wages flatlined for more than 10 years.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/marr-johnson-wages/
title: Marr wrong to claim PM wasn’t telling the truth on wages - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
After the financial crisis wages fell until 2014 and then started to recover, only recently reaching the levels recorded before the crisis.


text: At the beginning of 2020 there were 4.3 million children growing up in poverty.
claimant: Kate Green
claim_date: 2021-04-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/poverty-not-same-food-insecurity/
title: Poverty is not the same as food insecurity - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, according to data on relative poverty after housing costs. Other measures of poverty would show different figures.


text: There are more teachers.
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:
We’re not sure of the timeframe for this claim, but teacher numbers generally did increase between 2010 and 2015, although the number of secondary teachers fell.


text: The EU has shrunk as a percentage of the world economy.
claimant: Daniel Hannan
claim_date: 2015-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-has-shrunk-percentage-world-economy/
title: The EU has shrunk as a percentage of the world economy - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct. The EU economy has grown in size, but the rest of the world economy has grown faster.


text: House prices have quadrupled since 1990, but average income has only risen by half.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/house-prices-1990-2020/
title: House price growth has outstripped income growth—but not by much - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct, because the income figure is inflation-adjusted, but the house price figure isn’t. In cash terms, income has tripled in this time.


text: There is a Tory plan to raise the pension age to 75.
claimant: Sunday People
claim_date: 2019-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/false-pension-claim-continues-to-circulate/
title: Misleading claim about pension age continues to circulate online - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This policy was recommended in a report by the Centre for Social Justice think tank, which is chaired by Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith. The Department for Work and Pensions told us it is not government policy to do this.


text: The two most recent PHE reports show no statistically significant excess all-cause mortality.
claimant: Mike Yeadon
claim_date: 2021-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-excess-deaths-phe-jan-2021/
title: There are excess deaths in England and these PHE reports don’t prove otherwise - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are excess deaths in England at the moment. The PHE reports used estimates that were distorted by the reporting lag over Christmas. PHE has already revised its findings for week 52 of 2020 and may revise its findings for week 53.


claimant: Karen Waldron
claim_date: 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/SM-102/
title: The Moderna vaccine contains SM-102 not chloroform - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Moderna vaccine contains SM-102 which could cause health complaints such as cancer, fertility damage and damage to the nervous system, kidneys or respiratory system.

textual_rating:
These claims about SM-102 are from a product safety leaflet when it is in a mixed solution with a toxic substance called chloroform. The Moderna vaccine does contain SM-102, but not chloroform.


text: The top 1% of earners in the UK are paying 28% of the tax burden.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-top-1-earners-pay-28-tax-burden/
title: Do the top 1% of earners pay 28% of the tax burden? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct.  The highest earning 1% in the UK pay an estimated 28% of all income tax – not the total “tax burden”. This is close to a record level, but it isn’t quite the highest percentage ever.


text: The defence budget was cut by nearly 20% between 2010 and 2015.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2018-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/defence-spending/
title: Government defence spending is 2% of GDP - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Defence spending fell by 18% in real terms between 2010/11 and 2014/15, or by 22% comparing since 2009/10.


text: Dettol antiseptic spray says it kills human coronavirus.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dettol-coronavirus/
title: The makers of Dettol did not know about the new Wuhan coronavirus before the rest of us - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That is correct but that doesn’t mean that Dettol spray can kill the new coronavirus identified in Wuhan. Coronavirus is a category of viruses that includes the common cold, and it is likely this the label is referring to.


claimant: David Gauke
claim_date: 2017-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/has-national-living-wage-reduced-inequality/
title: Has the National Living Wage reduced inequality? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Faster pay rises for those at the bottom are one of the reasons inequality has fallen in recent years.

textual_rating:
Income inequality has fallen by some measures in recent years, but pay rises aren’t considered to be the main reason. These inequality trends are expected to reverse as a result of wider policy changes to taxes and benefits.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/paper-plane-fans/
title: A video of several fans making a paper plane fly is CGI - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video of several strategically placed room fans keeping a paper aeroplane flying in a circle shows what happens “when physicists get bored”.

textual_rating:
The video was created by a video animator called Vernon James Manlapaz, and does not show a real event.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-gordon-brown/
review_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That is true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson said in 2007 that Gordon Brown should not have become Prime Minister after Tony Blair with no public vote.

title:
Boris Johnson did say this about Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister without an election - Full Fact


text: Rapid Covid-19 tests are unreliable because fruit and Coca-Cola can give “positive” results.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-12-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kiwi-covid/
title: A kiwi fruit did not test “positive” for Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Rapid Covid tests very rarely give false positive results when used on humans, as intended. They more often give false negatives.


text: The Labour party has more women MPs than all the other parties in the House of Commons combined.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/women-mps-pmqs/
title: Women in the Commons - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct then and now. Following the 2017 election, 119 out of the 208 women MPs are Labour Party members.


claimant: Jeremy Vine
claim_date: 2018-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cyclist-deaths/
title: How many cyclists are killed each year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct for Britain. The 18,477 figure includes deaths, of which there were 102.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In 2016, 18,477 cyclists were injured in road accidents, including 3,499 who were killed or seriously injured.


claimant: Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/immigration-affecting-performance-native-english-speakers-schools/
title: Is immigration affecting the performance of native English speakers in schools? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
British pupils are suffering because teachers are struggling to cope with an influx of foreign students speaking different languages.

textual_rating:
The proportion of pupils with English as an additional language has been rising. But research suggests the performance of pupils with English as their first language isn't affected by this.


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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If the new coronavirus gets into your mouth, drinking water or other liquids will wash them down through the oesophagus. Once they’re in the stomach, the acid will kill the virus. If you don't drink enough water more regularly, the virus can enter your windpipes and into the lungs.

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

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Drinking water does not prevent an infection and there have been cases where the virus has survived in the stomach and affected people’s intestines.


text: Experts agree that… [if we left Europe] there would be less money for public services like the NHS.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-stronger-economy/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Stronger In on the economy - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Most economists seem to agree that leaving the EU would cost the UK economically. If that happened, the government would need to raise taxes, cut other things, or borrow to keep NHS spending at the same level.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/pmqs-sunak-starmer-crumbling-schools/
title: Starmer’s education speech warned of school buildings starting to ‘crumble’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Keir Starmer hadn’t mentioned reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) during his speech on education earlier this summer.

textual_rating:
While Keir Starmer didn’t use the specific term ‘RAAC’, he referred to school buildings starting to “crumble”.


text: There are more women in the UK in work than ever before.
claimant: Elizabeth Truss
claim_date: 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
title: The pay gap, record employment and an extra £23 billion to GDP: women and the workplace - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/pay-gap-record-employment-and-extra-23-billion-gdp-women-and-workplace/

textual_rating:
This is true, but it's almost always true: employment grows as the population grows. The employment rate for women aged 16-64 was also at a record high.


text: Vaccine manufacturers are not liable for injuries or deaths caused by the vaccines.
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:
True, mostly. In the UK, Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers are protected from much, but not all, civil liability that arises as a result of the vaccines.


text: Calpol and Nurofen will suppress the immune system and cause health problems later in life.
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
textual_rating:
The MHRA evidence review to approve these medications found no evidence of impact of paracetamol (in Calpol) on the immune system, and for ibuprofen (in Nurofen) a very rare (<1/10,000) side effect of lowered white blood cells, the immune cells in the blood.


text: An elderly lady in the Doncaster area is looking for her niece, called Daphne.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/elderly-lady-phoning-doncaster/
review_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Why a Facebook post about an elderly lady looking for her Scottish niece keeps going viral - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no reason to doubt the validity of this claim, although it has been reposted several times, and the original post was made on 28 March.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-house-of-commons/
title: Claim about vaccine deaths wasn’t ‘discussed in House of Commons’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The claim that the daily rate of vaccine deaths is now higher than Covid deaths has been discussed in the House of Commons.

textual_rating:
The document being used to evidence this is written evidence submitted to a select committee, not a quote from the House of Commons. Anyone can submit written evidence. The claim that daily vaccine deaths have overtaken Covid-19 deaths is based on Yellow Card reporting, which is misleading as Yellow Card reports are not evidence of proven side effects.


text: Face masks cause deoxygenation.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-tests-flu-vaccine-masks-strep/
title: Nasal flu vaccines don’t contain ‘mice bred streptococcal bacteria’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Wearing face masks continually for long periods of time can lead to slight changes in oxygen and carbon dioxide levels but not enough to be clinically significant.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-claims-debunked/
review_date: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The NHS recommends washing your underwear and towels at 60C or 40C with a bleach-based laundry product to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.

title:
We fact checked claims about avoiding social contact and how you wash clothes in the face of the new coronavirus - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not NHS advice on limiting the spread of the new coronavirus. It comes from advice on stopping the spread of germs generally.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/apeel-sciences-edipeel-fruit-vegetables-safety/
review_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Edipeel, produced by Apeel Sciences, contains ingredients that cause a number of risks to human health.

title:
Facebook posts confuse ‘Apeel’ fruit and vegetable preservative with hard surface cleaner - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Posts claiming this are confusing the safety information for Edipeel—a protective coating designed to keep fruits and vegetables fresh—with the safety information for a hard surface cleaner also called Apeel.


claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/andrew-bridgen-vaccine-safety-debate/
title: Andrew Bridgen's vaccine debate claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pfizer vaccine trials showed a 95% relative risk reduction in the development of infection against the ancestral, more lethal strain of the virus. However, the absolute risk reduction for an individual was only 0.84%.

textual_rating:
These figures are correct, but relative risk reduction is most commonly used to communicate vaccine effectiveness as the way in which it is calculated means it is relevant no matter how prevalent Covid-19 is in the community. Absolute risk reduction is sensitive to the prevalence of the virus, so the figure measured during the trials may be less relevant to real-world situations.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2018-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/emergency-admissions-care-homes/
title: Emergency admissions to hospitals from care homes are up 62% - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of elderly people being rushed into A&E from care homes has risen by 62% since the Conservatives took power.

textual_rating:
This is the increase in the number of emergency admissions from care homes in England from 2010/11 to 2016/17. Roughly 90% of these admissions were people aged 60 plus in both 2010/11 and 2016/17.


text: 53% of coronavirus deaths in Sweden are in care facilities.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Scotland-coronavirus-care-home-deaths/
title: It’s not true that 58% of Covid-19 deaths in Scotland were in care homes - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. The ECDC report says 53% of care homes in Stockholm county reported Covid-19 cases. 50% of all Covid-19 related deaths in Sweden amongst over-70s were in long term care facilities.


claimant: Ministry of Justice
claim_date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/barristers-and-diversity/
title: Barristers and diversity - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More female and black and minority ethnic lawyers were appointed to the senior rank of Queen’s Counsel in 2016/17 than ever before.

textual_rating:
Correct, if you add both groups together. Looking at each category individually, there have been more female, and more black and ethnic minority, QCs appointed in previous years.


text: Most of our trade with the world is based on WTO rules.
claimant: Charles Moore
claim_date: 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/does-most-uk-trade-happen-outside-eu-and-trade-agreements/
title: Does most UK trade happen outside of the EU and trade agreements? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Most of our trade (57% of exports and 66% of imports in 2016) is with countries we have EU trade agreements with, not under WTO rules. But trade agreement tariffs on some goods and services are the same as those we have with other countries.


text: HS2 will only take a few minutes off the current journey time.
claimant: Tim Stanley
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/hs2-it-faster/
title: HS2: is it faster? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Current government figures suggest that anything from 13 to 102 minutes could be taken off journey times from the north to London and Birmingham. This is comparing the current fastest times to the fastest times once HS2 is fully running in 2033.


text: People with Covid-19 should not take ibuprofen
claimant: Olivier Véran
claim_date: 2020-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-ibuprofen/
title: There’s mixed evidence on whether people with Covid-19 should avoid ibuprofen - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are concerns ibuprofen can aggravate underlying health issues. There is no strong evidence on how ibuprofen affects Covid-19 sufferers yet, but some experts suggest taking paracetamol is preferable.The NHS has changed its guidance on the new coronavirus to reflect this.


text: Nearly two thirds of people aged 30-50 could be living with undiagnosed blood pressure
claimant: blood pressure uk
claim_date: 2023-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/undiagnosed-high-blood-pressure-30-50-bpuk/
title: Most people under 55 don’t have undiagnosed high blood pressure - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true that about 63% of 30-50s don’t know their blood pressure, which might therefore be high in any given case. However the actual proportion of this age group with undiagnosed high blood pressure is probably much lower than 63%.


text: The UK has the highest property taxes in the world.
claimant: Rob Perrin
claim_date: 2016-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-highest-rate-property-tax/
title: Does the UK have the highest rate of property tax in the world? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK does raise more from property taxes overall than any other developed country, but this includes things like council tax. It doesn’t seem to have the highest stamp duty (or equivalent) in the world.


text: It’s against the law to travel with an unrestrained pet in your car.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/driving-pet-car/
title: Driving with an unsecured pet isn’t an offence, but driving carelessly is - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not against the law to drive with your pet unsecured, but if the animal distracts you or you have an accident then this could be an offence.


claimant: Chuka Umunna
claim_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-economic-impact/
title: This comparison between Brexit’s impact and the financial crisis is flawed - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government’s own research says that Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals would lead to a 6.4% drop in real wages.

textual_rating:
The government estimated a free trade agreement Brexit could lead to real wages being 6.4% lower after 15 years than if the UK remained in the EU. That’s not the same as saying this form of Brexit will lead to a drop in real wages compared to now.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-monday-friday-daily-mail/
title: Daily Mail report on GPs seeing fewer patients on Fridays needs more context - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
GPs are treating 200,000 fewer patients on Fridays with appointment availability getting progressively worse during the week.

textual_rating:
This figure is correct for July 2021 in England, but comes with important caveats. The drop in appointments on Friday is more marked when compared with Monday, when GPs are busiest, rather than the rest of the week. The Friday drop is also a longstanding one, and the figures can’t tell us about “availability” or how appointment supply compares with demand.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/foreign-direct-investment-north/
title: Foreign Direct Investment in the North - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has increased at twice the rate in the North as in the rest of the country.

textual_rating:
It's correct that the number of deals has increased at twice the rate. We don’t know how much each of these investment deals was worth.


text: The UK’s aid budget is set to have more than doubled from 2010 to 2020.
claimant: Philip Davies
claim_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-development-aid-spending-pmqs/
title: UK development aid spending - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite correct, even though there’s a few ways to look at it. The UK spent £8.5 billion on aid in 2010 and is on course to spend £15.3 in 2020, or £13.1 billion after inflation.


text: The overwhelming majority of other EU countries have no steel industry to protect.
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
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Seven EU countries produce more steel than the UK, including large economies like Germany, Italy, and France. The UK is responsible for 4% of the EU’s crude steel production.


text: The government’s no deal Brexit preparations are costing £171,000 per hour.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-01-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/whats-cost-preparing-brexit/
title: What’s the cost of preparing for Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This is the total additional funding per hour the government has allocated for Brexit preparations in 2018/19 for several different scenarios including those where the UK leaves with a deal. The government hasn’t said how much of the funding is going to no deal preparations specifically.


text: Type 1 diabetes is listed as a side effect on the MMR vaccine package insert.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mmr-vaccine-diabetes-no-link/
title: Evidence shows there is no link between the MMR vaccine and diabetes - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Diabetes is listed as an adverse reaction on the MMR II vaccine used in the USA. This isn’t the same as a side effect – it can refer to conditions developed by chance after someone has been vaccinated but which aren’t caused by the vaccine. 

Neither of the two MMR vaccines used in the UK list diabetes in their information and evidence shows there is no link between the MMR vaccine and Type 1 diabetes.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/child-poverty-keir-starmer-boris-johnson/
review_date: 2020-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government’s Social Mobility Commission said the number of children in poverty is expected to increase to 5.2 million by 2022.

title:
Boris Johnson incorrect to say Keir Starmer is “completely wrong” about past trends in child poverty - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is based on an estimate made in 2017 which estimated child poverty would be considerably higher by this point than it is. For that reason it shouldn’t be considered relevant today.


text: The estimated cost of tax avoidance is between £35 billion and £125 billion a year.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/benefits-tax-fraud-evasion-dwp/
title: Figures on benefit and tax fraud investigators misrepresented - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. HMRC estimates the ‘tax gap’ to be £35 billion, but only a portion of that is related to tax avoidance. Another portion is related to tax evasion, which is a form of fraud.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/fuel-crisis-conspiracy/
title: No evidence government spreading fuel shortage rumours to sell surplus - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government orchestrated the fuel panic to sell off soon-to-expire fuel stocks built up during the pandemic.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence of this. There wasn’t a build up of fuel stocks during the pandemic. Supply fell to meet reduced demand.


text: The number of poor and non-white students at Oxford and Cambridge is decreasing.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/oxbridge-rich-white-students/
title: Is Oxbridge still a rich white student's world? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The proportion of Oxbridge students from a BME background has increased. The proportion from disadvantaged areas is low - with different trends from Oxford and Cambridge.


text: Three British Airways pilots have died of the Covid-19 vaccine in the last seven days.
claimant: Great Reject
claim_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/british-airways-pilot-vaccine/
title: British Airways is not in ‘crisis talks’ with the government about vaccinated pilots - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Four British Airways pilots have recently died but the company says the deaths are not “linked”. The MHRA says it hasn’t been told about any deaths of pilots after vaccination, and has not had discussions with any airline about preventing vaccinated pilots from flying.


text: About 92% of our land mass is not built on.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/has-92-country-not-been-built/
title: Has 92% of the country not been built on? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It's estimated that between 88% and 99.9% of the UK isn’t ‘developed’ or built on. But that doesn’t mean all of the remainder is available for development.


text: European patent 3172319B1 is a vaccine for the new coronavirus.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine-patents-bill-melinda-gates/
title: These patents are not for the new coronavirus or its vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is not. The patent relates to a vaccine for a virus which infects birds, which is another type of coronavirus.


text: Serco runs the enforcement of the UK’s test and trace system, including the app.
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:
This is not true. Serco has had no involvement in the app. Its contracted work for England’s Test and Trace system involves running call centres and testing facilities.


claimant: Michael Gove
claim_date: 2022-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/post-Brexit-trade-deals-Gove/
title: ‘New’ UK trade deals don’t account for ‘over £800 billion worth of new global trade’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK has secured new free trade deals with over 70 countries since 2016, worth over £800 billion in new global trade.

textual_rating:
Most of these deals were rolled over from existing EU agreements following Brexit. The figure refers to the total value of trade between the UK and countries it has agreed trade deals with—not the value that they add.


text: Hairdressers have a higher cancer risk because of chemicals at work, a study shows.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sun-hairdressers-ovarian-cancer/
title: Study didn’t show ‘hairdressers have a higher cancer risk because of chemicals at work’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not what the study says. One of its authors has confirmed the research was exploratory and established no definite associations between people’s jobs and their risk of ovarian cancer.


text: Bill Gates is the largest investor in vaccines.
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:
It is not clear exactly what vaccines the post is referring to, but the Gates Foundation has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Covid-19 vaccine development, manufacturing, procurement and distribution.


claimant: Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents
claim_date: 2020-07-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/5g-skin-cells-paper/
title: A baseless paper that linked skin cells, 5G and coronavirus has been retracted - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
5G millimeter waves could be absorbed by dermatologic cells acting like antennas, transferred to other cells and play the main role in producing Coronaviruses in biological cells.

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There is no evidence that this is the case, and lots of evidence that it isn’t. The journal that published the paper that claims this has now removed it from their website.


text: Spending on social care is down 8% 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:
Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies last year said that between 2009/10 and 2016/17, councils’ spending on adult social care in England fell 8% in real terms. Newer analysis says that it fell by 6% over the same period. We’ve asked it for more information.


text: You can text a crisis counsellor from Samaritans.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/samaritans-text-number/
title: Samaritans doesn't have a text number anymore - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is no longer true. The charity does not have a text number, but can be contacted by phone, email and letter. Mental health support by text can be accessed using the SHOUT text service.


text: UK data shows high rates of vaccine-induced mortality.
claimant: Josh Stirling
claim_date: 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-ONS-florida/
title: ONS data shows lower death rates in people vaccinated against Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The data does not say why people have died, only whether they have been vaccinated. It also shows a lower mortality rate in vaccinated people. The actual number of recorded deaths due to the vaccines is very small.


text: Covid-19 is a rebrand of flu
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-is-not-flu/
title: Covid-19 is not a rebrand of flu - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Covid-19 is not a rebrand of flu. Although there has been a reduction of flu this year there is no evidence to suggest that Covid-19 is simply influenza in a new guise. Not least because they are caused by different organisms.


text: There’s £460m extra funding for the police this year, including the local precept.
claimant: Dominic Raab
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, there’s an extra £460m in cash terms for police in England and Wales. The majority of that rise comes from about £280 million raised in council tax, rather than central government.


text: There were 3,700 drug-related deaths in England and Wales last year.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-drug-related-deaths-uk-highest-eu/
title: Are drug related deaths in the UK the highest in the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Roughly correct, there were 3,756 registered in 2017. Around half of these will have happened in 2016 because of the time it takes to hold an inquest and then register the death.


