# claims

text: Angioplasty and stents have not been shown to reduce heart attack risks or save lives.
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
textual_rating:
False. There is robust evidence for significant reductions in death and heart attack risk for the use of both in acute coronary syndromes.


text: Four times as many black people are being detained as white people.
claimant: Simon Wessely
claim_date: 2017-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/number-detentions-under-mental-health-act-rising/
title: The number of detentions under the Mental Health Act is rising - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If you're black, you're about four times as likely to be detained than if you're white. Overall, more white people are detained, since they make up a larger portion of the population.


text: 1.8 million migrants entered the EU illegally in 2015.
claimant: Cyril Dixon
claim_date: 2016-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/did-18-million-migrants-enter-eu-illegally-last-year/
title: Did 1.8 million migrants enter the EU illegally last year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect as far as available figures show. 1.8 million illegal border crossings were detected by EU member states in 2015, but this isn’t 1.8 million unique people as some are counted multiple times. It’s thought around one million migrants came over the same period.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/football-klopp-mourinho-ferguson-fake-quotes/
title: Fake football quotes go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jürgen Klopp said the European Super League is about “greed” and that he had demanded a meeting with the Liverpool owner.

textual_rating:
This quote is made up, although Jürgen Klopp has expressed opposition to the idea of a Super League.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/immigration-homelessness/
title: This viral image on immigration and homelessness has a fundamental flaw - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservatives have found homes for the 8.8 million immigrants, illegal immigrants, and asylum seekers living here.

textual_rating:
The UN estimates that there were 8.8 million people in the UK in 2017 who were not born here, but that doesn’t mean the government has found homes for them.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wetherspoons-condom-mourning/
title: Wetherspoons has not stopped selling condoms for a ‘royal period of mourning’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Wetherspoons pub has stopped selling condoms from a vending machine as part of a “Royal period of Mourning”.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The pub company has confirmed that the sign is fake. Wetherspoons does not have condom vending machines.


claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-app-track-trace-poll/
title: Health Secretary uses Facebook poll to estimate coronavirus tracing app take-up - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is based on a Facebook poll which is not representative of Isle of Wight residents.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An early poll shows 80% of people on the Isle of Wight want to download the government’s new coronavirus tracing app.


text: Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-claims-symptoms-viral/
title: Viral post about someone’s uncle’s coronavirus advice is not all it’s cracked up to be - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know how long the virus can last on the skin, especially not down to the minute. But you should regularly wash your hands.


text: Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
title: Viral posts about Covid-19 symptoms contain false information - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/viral-posts-sharing-symptoms-and-treatments-covid-19-contain-false-information/

textual_rating:
There is no evidence yet on how long the virus can survive on the skin. But it is important to regularly wash your hands.


text: Scotland will have to leave the EU whether or not it becomes independent.
claimant: José Manuel Barroso
claim_date: 2012-12-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/can-scotland-stay-in-eu/
title: Could Scotland stay in the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s very likely that Scotland would have to re-apply to join the EU on independence, although in theory it could stay in without a hiatus if all member countries agreed to write it into the EU treaties.


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
text:
The nasal flu vaccine given to children contains streptococcal bacteria and aluminium, and is linked to the outbreak of deaths from strep A.

textual_rating:
False. The flu vaccine does not contain streptococcal bacteria or aluminium. There is no proven link between the deaths from strep A and the vaccine.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/toby-carvery-fake-coupons-facebook/
title: Fake Toby Carvery coupons shared thousands of times on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Toby Carvery has confirmed this is not a genuine offer.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Social media users can get eight vouchers for a free meal at Toby Carvery if they share and comment on a post.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/petrol-saving-fuel-tips-money/
title: Popular tips on filling cars with petrol don’t offer big savings - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Filling your petrol tank more slowly reduces the amount of fuel lost as vapour or through evaporation.

textual_rating:
While at least one study does support this claim, the amount lost as vapour when refilling appears to be small. One study suggests vapour losses account for around 0.18% of fuel purchased.


text: Monkeypox is sexually transmitted.
claimant: TikTok video
claim_date: 2022-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/moneypox-child-cases/
title: Monkeypox isn’t just spread by sexual contact - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Health authorities believe the current monkeypox outbreak is primarily driven by sexual contact, but that is not the only way that people can catch the disease.


text: The latest government reshuffle means the government looks more like the country as a whole.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/government-diversity/
title: How diverse is the government? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Following the January 2018 reshuffle, the government can appear more or less diverse depending on how you look at it. In any case, women and ethnic minorities are underrepresented compared to the UK population, and people educated at private school are overrepresented.


text: An extension to Brexit would cost the UK £1 billion a month
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-extension-1-billion/
title: Would an extension to Brexit cost £1 billion a month? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is only compared to a no deal exit in which the UK refuses to pay the “divorce bill”, and it doesn’t include payments back from the EU to the UK. If we leave with a deal, any extension up to the end of 2020 will not cost us extra, as the agreed financial settlement already includes these payments.


text: The Germans want a £40 billion Brexit payout.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/war-debt-figure/
title: Germany doesn’t “owe” the UK £3.7 trillion of war debt - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK will have to pay an estimated £39 billion to the EU (not specifically Germany), as part of the proposed withdrawal agreement. If we leave with no deal, it’s highly uncertain whether or not we’d legally have to pay that bill.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mask-deaf-lip-reading/
title: You do not have to legally lower your mask for lip-readers - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A post on social media has claimed that if a deaf person asks you to remove your mask you are legally required to make an adjustment.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. You are allowed to lower or remove your mask to assist those who lip-read, but it is not a legal requirement.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/eddie-izzard-fake-guardian-column/
title: Fake Eddie Izzard ‘Guardian’ article shared on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The screenshot is fake. No such article has appeared in the Guardian.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A screenshot appears to show an article written by Eddie Izzard for the Guardian, headlined: “I’ve been a struggling mother. I know first hand the hardship caused by the cost of living crisis”.


text: The NAO found there was never a national shortage of PPE.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2021-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/hancock-ppe-nao-shortages/
title: The NAO didn’t claim there was never a national PPE shortage - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The NAO did not find this. It wrote that while trusts told it that they were able to get what they needed in the spring of 2020, healthcare workers reported widespread shortages.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-ai-mhra-adverse/
review_date: 2020-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A contract from the UK government says the MHRA is seeking an AI software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine adverse drugs reactions to ensure no details from the adverse drugs reactions’ text are missed.

title:
The government plans to monitor potential adverse reactions to a Covid-19 vaccine, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be safe - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is correct, but monitoring any adverse reactions is a standard part of monitoring an approved drug or vaccine. Reported adverse reactions are not necessarily the same as side effects, and may have no connection to the vaccine.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/instagram-privacy-meme/
title: The meme you’ve seen about Instagram privacy settings is not true - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: None of this is true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Instagram is changing its rules so that any posts or messages on the platform will be public, can be used in court cases against you, and Instagram is now a public entity. If you share a certain image, Instagram will not be able to share your images or messages.


text: There are 790 more prison officers since the beginning of 2015.
claimant: Andrew Selous
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:
This is wrong because it’s just looking at the number of people being appointed and the number of people leaving. It doesn’t factor in people who are promoted or re-graded within the service, or the hours they work. The number of prison officers is falling.


text: In London, stop and searches have similar ‘success rates’ for white people and black people.
claimant: Cressida Dick
claim_date: 2017-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/stops-and-searches-are-becoming-less-common/
title: Stops and searches are becoming less common - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The rates are similar, but white people are slightly more likely to have some action taken against them as a result of a stop and search.


text: Cannabis use causes a quarter of psychosis cases.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2015-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/factcheck-does-cannabis-cause-quarter-psychosis-cases/
title: Factcheck: does cannabis cause a quarter of psychosis cases? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's not what the research shows. High-potency cannabis (or skunk) is linked to 24% of cases in South London, but that's not representative of the rest of the country.


text: Under Labour, UK steel production and employment in the industry halved.
claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2015-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-uk-steel-production-halve-under-labour/
title: Did UK steel production halve under Labour? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Yes, if you compare 1997 to 2010, when the economy was in a slump. Production has been, broadly, in decline for decades.


text: There were no strikes in the NHS when Labour was last in power.
claimant: Wes Streeting
claim_date: 2022-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/NHS-strikes-under-Labour-government/
review_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Some staff at NHS hospitals did take part in local strikes when Labour was last in power - Full Fact

textual_rating:
At least two formal local strikes, and one unofficial local strike, took place in that period involving staff working at NHS hospitals, though some weren’t directly employed by the NHS. We couldn’t find any instances of nationwide strike action in the NHS during this period.


text: The US airforce has deployed B-2 Spirit nuclear bombers to Poland for the first time.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-poland-b2-bomber-video/
title: Video doesn’t show American B-2 stealth bomber deployed to Poland - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
B-2 bombers have not been deployed to Poland. Footage supposedly showing a bomber landing there was actually filmed in England.


claimant: Oliver Dowden
claim_date: 2017-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/assaults-nhs-staff/
title: Assaults on NHS staff - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is a specific criminal offence of assaulting a police, immigration, or prison officer, but not of assaulting a doctor, nurse, or paramedic.

textual_rating:
Correct, but the maximum sentence for assaulting a police officer is no higher than that for assaulting anyone else, and sentencing rules say that assaults on public sector workers of all kinds should be treated especially seriously.


text: A depressed dog has been found and needs to be reunited with its owner.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hoax-missing-dog-circle-k/
title: No evidence dog pictured at petrol station has been found in different English towns - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is a genuine appeal. The picture does not appear to have been taken in England, and there are many signs the post is a hoax.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Asda-throw-bucket-of-water/
title: Photos don’t show Asda staff member throwing water over a man - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Photographs show the aftermath of an Asda staff member throwing a bucket of water over a homeless person.

textual_rating:
Asda has confirmed that a staff member was watering plants behind where the person was sitting and that the incident happened in 2018.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-klaus-meat-land-ownsership-wef/
title: WEF didn’t say that property ownership would become ‘unsustainable’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: No such tweet exists.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A tweet from the World Economic Forum reports its founder, Klaus Schwab, as saying that as humanity moves further toward a post-carbon future people must accept things like eating meat and property ownership are simply unsustainable.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/unlicensed-not-untested/
title: The government is not planning to roll out an untested Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government is bringing in a law that means unlicensed, untested vaccines can be given to people and no one is liable if they go wrong.

textual_rating:
This is not correct. The government was holding a consultation on whether it should change rules around unlicensed vaccines. Unlicensed is not the same as untested, and the manufacturer would still be liable if the product didn’t meet safety standards or is defective. 
Any vaccine given to the public will have to go through several stages of testing, regardless of this consultation.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/roe-protest-vaccinated/
review_date: 2022-07-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This claim is taken from a satire page on Twitter. There’s no evidence this was the case.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Official protests against the overturning of the Roe v Wade abortion ruling required a Covid-19 vaccination status check for admission.

title:
Report that Covid-19 vaccine was required to join Roe v Wade protests comes from satirical page - Full Fact


text: The death rate in 2020 was lower than in the early 2000s.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/death-rate-2020-2003/
title: Death rate back to early 2000s levels - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct. The death rate fell considerably over the past two decades, as life expectancy improved. 2020 saw these improvements reversed.


text: British old age pensioners get a weekly hardship allowance of £0.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-benefits/
title: Viral image about pensioners and refugees is wrong on every single number - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, insofar as the “weekly hardship allowance” doesn’t exist. Pensioners can claim additional benefits to help with their income.


text: CCTV video shows February 2023 earthquake in Turkey.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/old-video-turkey-earthquake-izmir/
title: Video claiming to be from this week’s earthquake in Turkey actually from 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video does appear to show an earthquake in Turkey, but it is from 2020, and does not show the current disaster.


claimant: Howard Beckett
claim_date: 2022-02-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/howard-beckett-wealth-tax-nhs-pay-rise/
title: Viral tweet on wealth tax generating £250 billion for NHS is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A 0.05% financial transactions tax would raise £250 billion which could pay for a 15% pay rise for NHS workers until 2049.

textual_rating:
The £250 billion such a tax is estimated to raise is a global tax, and so would not be spent on the NHS alone.


text: The energy market is mainly owned by the French government.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/who-owns-britains-trains-energy-postal/
title: Who owns Britain’s trains, energy and postal service? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The French government is a major shareholder in the energy company EDF but not in any of the other Big Six providers. Other international companies have stakes in other members of the Big Six.


text: There are 9 million more visits to A&E since 2000.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-patients-going-e-instead-gps/
title: Are patients going to A&E instead of GPs? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, but walk-in centres have been introduced since then, and this type of A&E has seen the biggest rise in attendances. Major A&E departments have seen their attendances increase by around 3 million between 2002/03 and 2015/16.


claimant: Allison Pearson
claim_date: 2019-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/foreign-born-nhs-eu/
title: UK has one of the highest levels of foreign-born doctors and nurses in the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK is the only country in the EU whose health service is heavily dependent on foreign clinical staff.

textual_rating:
The UK has one of the highest levels of foreign-born doctors and nurses in the EU, but it’s not the highest.


text: Black scientists hold only 3.5% of professor posts.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/black-professor-stem-uk/
title: MailOnline muddles professorship ethnicity figures - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. In 2018/19 black academics held just 0.5% of STEM professor posts, but 3.5% of black STEM academic staff were professors.


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
text:
The government knew before the Covid-19 vaccines roll-out that they would kill and maim and issued a tender for a surveillance system to monitor deaths.

textual_rating:
This may refer to either an artificial intelligence contract the government awarded to monitor adverse drug events or the Yellow Card scheme which was established in 1964. 

In either case both are intended to ensure drug safety, and reports of adverse events are not necessarily linked to the Covid-19 vaccines.


text: A post claims influenza has been eradicated and seems to suggest this is suspicious.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/flu-not-eradicated/
title: Flu deaths aren’t being miscategorised as Covid-19 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While there appears to be very few flu infections due to various reasons, the flu has not been eradicated. Covid-19 deaths are not miscategorised flu deaths.


text: While Boris Johnson was mayor, the murder rate fell.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/boris-johnson-mayor-crime/
title: Did crime fall while Boris Johnson was Mayor of London? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, looking at homicides overall, rather than just murders. The homicide rate fell from roughly 21 per million people in 2007/08 to 13 per million in 2015/16.


text: A picture shows Margaret Thatcher and Menachem Begin shaking hands.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/margaret-thatcher-menachem-begin/
title: This is a real photo of Margaret Thatcher and Menachem Begin - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. He was the prime minister of Israel at the time, and it was taken during a visit to Downing Street in 1979.


text: Hundreds of thousands of children are in overcrowded classrooms.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/primary-class-sizes-england-and-wales/
title: Primary class sizes in England and Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Hundreds of thousands of children were in classes of more than 30 last year. That’s been true for at least the last decade, although it’s become more common to have large primary school classes recently.


text: The UK was the only G7 nation to reduce aid spending in 2020.
claimant: New Statesman
claim_date: 2021-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-foreign-aid-g7/
title: The UK will cut aid this year, but barely did last year - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true, but misses out the wider picture. The UK reduced spending by 0.006 percentage points of national income in 2020, but was still the second-highest spender on aid in the G7 that year.


text: Ethylene oxide is used to sterilise lateral flow tests. Ethylene oxide is not safe.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lateral-flow-tests-ethylene-oxide/
title: Lateral flow tests are not unsafe - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Exposure to ethylene oxide can be unsafe. However, it is commonly used to sterilise medical equipment, including lateral flow tests, and does not pose any danger in this way.


text: A picture claims to show a ‘hammerhead salamander’.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/diplocaulus-hammerhead-salamander/
title: This picture shows a model of an extinct amphibian - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The picture shows a model of a dipocaulus, sometimes called a hammerhead salamander, which is extinct.


text: The HAARP research facility is being used to create a particular type of cloud.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/playing-HAARP-clouds/
title: HAARP research facility did not create distinctive clouds - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
HAARP does not produce water in the atmosphere or interact with existing clouds so cannot have created the clouds pictured, which although distinctive, have been photographed many times before.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-jennifer-saunders/
title: No, Jennifer Saunders did not write this statement about PPE shortages - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: No, this post was not written by Jennifer Saunders.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Facebook post defending the government’s role in current NHS equipment shortages was written by Jennifer Saunders.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/image-doesnt-show-merkel-may-grybauskaite/
review_date: 2019-01-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Angela Merkel, Theresa May and the Lithuanian President were pictured together at a party in their youth.

title:
No, this image doesn’t show Merkel, May and the Lithuanian president hanging out as teenagers - Full Fact


text: How many who have no other morbidities under the age of 60 have died from this Covid-19? 350
claimant: Luke Johnson
claim_date: 2020-05-14T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/its-not-right-youre-more-likely-drown-die-covid-19-if-youre-under-60-no-health-problems/

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

textual_rating:
The latest NHS figures for England show that 253 people under the age of 60 with no underlying health conditions have died from Covid-19 in hospitals.


text: The NHS operates on the wrong part of someone’s body four times a day.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/botched-surgeries/
title: Jeremy Hunt muddled the numbers on botched surgeries - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. In the English NHS surgeons operate on the wrong part of someone’s body four times a week, according to figures from April to November 2019.


text: French pensions are double UK pensions.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensions-energy-bills-France-UK/
title: Energy bills, retirement age and pensions in the UK compared to France - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2021, the OECD found that total net pensions in France accounted for 74% of previous earnings, compared to around 58% in the UK. This doesn’t account for other benefits, or how much people pay into them.


text: Hate crimes spiked by 41%, following the EU referendum.
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
textual_rating:
Yes, the number of hate crimes recorded by the police in July 2016 was 41% higher in July 2016 than in July 2015. There was a sharp increase immediately after the EU referendum.


text: The UK is the best country for education in 2019.
claimant: U.S. News & World Report
claim_date: 2019-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/uk-best-education-system/
title: Does the UK have the best education system in the world? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on data that measures public perception of different educational systems. It is not good data for objectively ranking education systems. Objective measures suggest the UK has a good public education system, but not the world’s best.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bbc-censor-peoples-vote-brexit-march/
title: BBC didn’t ‘censor’ footage of Brexit march - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Footage of a million people attending the People’s Vote march in March 2019 was censored by BBC News at the time but has now been released by BBC Politics.

textual_rating:
BBC Politics published the aerial footage on the day of the march, and it was featured as a lead item on the BBC News website and TV programmes.


text: The UK has a huge trade deficit with the EU.
claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2017-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-trade-deficit-eu/
title: The UK’s trade deficit with the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK imported around £60 billion more goods and services from the rest of the EU than it exported there in the 12 months to September 2016, although it has a trade surplus in services alone.


text: 97% of Labour activists back a "Remain alliance" election pact.
claimant: HuffPost
claim_date: 2019-08-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/labour-remain-claim-flawed/
title: Claim that 97% of Labour activists support remain alliance is flawed - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This is based on a survey of supporters of a pro-remain Labour campaign group. It is not representative of all Labour activists.


claimant: Save Our Rights UK (Facebook)
claim_date: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/freedom-census-2021-protected-belief/
title: Saying your religion is ‘Freedom’ on the census won’t make it a recognised belief - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If more than 250,000 people write ‘FREEDOM’ in response to a question about religion on the 2021 census it will become a recognised belief system.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. There is no specific number people have to reach to get a census output. To add a new protected characteristic to the Equality Act 2010 you have to bring a legal claim and win in a court of employment tribunal.


text: Amoxicillin capsules contain heavy metals or graphene oxide, and this is poisoning us.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/magnetic-capsules-poison/
title: Magnetic antibiotic capsules don’t contain graphene oxide - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The capsules don’t contain graphene oxide. They do contain iron oxide, which is magnetic, and is a normal part of a human diet.


text: According to the OECD, the United Kingdom has the slowest growth in the developed world.
claimant: Kate Forbes
claim_date: 2018-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uks-economy-growing-slower-any-other-country-developed-world/
title: Is the UK’s economy growing slower than any other country in the developed world? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK has one of the slowest real GDP growth rates, but not the slowest, of a number of countries analysed by the OECD, but these don’t include all developed countries.


text: It isn’t necessary for parties to form tactical alliances in the EU parliament elections.
claimant: Green Party of England and Wales
claim_date: 2019-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/what-will-happen-your-vote-upcoming-eu-parliament-elections/
title: What will happen to your vote in the upcoming EU parliament elections? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Smaller parties are disadvantaged by the voting system in Great Britain, so it’s harder to win as many seats as larger, unified voting blocs.


text: Private renting is making millions of people ill.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/private-renting-sickness/
review_date: 2020-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Quarter of private renters experience sickness over housing worries—but we don’t know if private renting is the cause - Full Fact

textual_rating:
A survey found almost a quarter of private renters agree that housing worries have made them ill in the past year. 
This doesn’t mean the sickness was specifically caused by renting privately as opposed to any other type of housing situation.


text: Spending on schools is being cut by 8%.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2017-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/spending-schools-2020/
title: Spending on schools up to 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The cash amount going to schools in England is rising and ahead of inflation, but spending per pupil is set to fall by 8% between 2014 and 2020, taking school-specific inflation into account.


text: Scrapping maintenance grants will price students from low income households out of university.
title: Ashes to ashes, grants to loans: how scrapping maintenance grants will affect students - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/ashes-ashes-grants-loans-how-scrapping-maintenance-grants-will-affect-students/

textual_rating:
While at university they'll get more money than they did under the old system, and only students who go on to be high earners will pay back more.


text: Labour will borrow £500 billion more in government.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/half-trillion-pounds-borrowing-under-labour/
title: Will there be half a trillion pounds of borrowing under Labour? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know yet what all of Labour’s policies will cost or raise. This figure refers to planned investment spending, not all of which the party says will come from public borrowing.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-stronger-cross-border-crime/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Stronger In on cross-border crime - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Fighting cross-border crime — the EAW allows us to deport criminals from the UK and catch those fleeing justice across Europe

textual_rating:
The European Arrest Warrant does allow the government to remove criminals from the UK to other EU countries, but a similar arrangement might be negotiated if we voted to leave.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/protest-sign-fake/
title: This isn’t a real sign at a protest - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows a woman holding a protest sign saying “stop killing volcanoes to make lava lamps”, from the People’s Vote march.

textual_rating:
The picture has been edited. The sign originally said “I’m not very happy about this” and the picture was taken in 2011.


text: Labour took £1.5 million from Just Stop Oil.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/labour-just-stop-oil-donations/
review_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Labour has received around £1.5 million from a Just Stop Oil donor, not the protest group itself - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This isn’t correct, and we’ve found no evidence that Just Stop Oil has made any donation to the Labour party. However the businessman Dale Vince, who has donated to Just Stop Oil, has also given around £1.5 million to the Labour party through his company.


text: £22 billion was taken out of welfare between 2010 and 2015.
claimant: Andrew Marr
claim_date: 2019-05-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/council-funding-welfare-spending-police-coalition/
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
What happened to council funding, welfare spending and police numbers under the Coalition? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is how much more would have been spent in real terms on social security payments across the UK between 2010/11 and 2015/16, had changes introduced between 2010 and 2015 not taken place.


claimant: John O'Looney
claim_date: 2021-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/funeral-director-no-evidence/
title: Funeral director’s viral claims about vaccinated people not based in fact - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Having the Covid-19 vaccine eats away at your immune system, and people vaccinated six or eight months ago are dying from the common cold.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence this is the case. The vaccines are effective at preventing severe disease from Covid-19.


claimant: Andrew Brigden
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:
The government issued contradictory evidence on Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy, from advising pregnant women to get vaccinated to then not recommending it

textual_rating:
This appears to refer to confusion when a government document published in December 2020, and not recommending vaccination of pregnant women appeared as if it was updated in August 2022. In fact vaccination against Covid-19 has been recommended for pregnant women since April 2021.


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
textual_rating: There is no evidence for this in the report cited by the claimant, nor elsewhere.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Options for post-Brexit trade deals with the EU will lead to between 700,000 and 2,800,000 fewer jobs.


text: On 9/11 the World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed for no apparent reason.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/world-trade-center-7-9-11/
title: World Trade Center 7 didn’t collapse for ‘no apparent reason' - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Years of investigation have concluded that the building collapsed because of fires ignited by debris falling from the North Tower’s collapse.


text: A seven-year-old boy called Lachlan Leary died from the Covid-19 vaccine in Sydney.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lachlan-leary-sydney-covid-vaccine-death/
title: No evidence Australian child ‘Lachlan Leary’ died from vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to suggest this is true. Official sources have denied the claims, and Full Fact could find no trace of the story reported via reputable news outlets.


text: 100,000 people have arrived into the UK since the lockdown began.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2020-05-11T00:00:00Z
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:
The government’s estimates on this subject are opaque, but the latest figures it has been using suggest well over 100,000 people will have entered the country since mid- to late March.


text: MPs have had a 36% pay rise since 2010 and junior doctors are asking for “the same as” this.
claimant: Professor Mamas A Mamas
claim_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pay-inflation-mps-junior-doctors/
title: How do junior doctors’ pay demands compare with MPs’ recent salary rises? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The uplift junior doctors are now asking for is not the same as the cash terms rise MPs have seen since 2010. The 35% the BMA has demanded is to cancel out what it says is a 26% real-terms pay cut between 2008/09 and 2021/22, factoring in RPI inflation. MPs’ salaries rose by 32% between 2010 and 2023 in cash terms—but this is not enough to prevent them having had a real-terms pay cut, if you factor in RPI inflation.


text: 1.4 million women every single year suffer from domestic violence.
claimant: Owen Jones
claim_date: 2017-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/sexual-and-domestic-abuse-england-wales-and-scotland/
title: Sexual violence and domestic abuse - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can't know exactly. An estimated 1.4 million women aged 16-59 were victims of domestic abuse in 2013/14 in England and Wales. There were an estimated 1.3 million victims in 2015/16, and 430,000 cases involved violence.


text: A typical taxpayer pays £1,075 less income tax than they did in 2010.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2018-04-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-taxpayers-paying-less-income-tax-2010/
title: Are taxpayers paying less income tax than in 2010? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, a typical taxpayer pays £1,075 less in income tax now than in 2010/11 but this calculation doesn’t account for inflation. It's around £850 less in income tax once this is factored in.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/fewer-votes-parliament-aye-or-no/
title: Fewer votes in parliament: Aye or no? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of votes held in the nine months since the general election is lower than after every election won by David Cameron and Tony Blair.

textual_rating:
This is correct, based on data from Public Whip. There has been a higher average turnout of MPs to vote since the 2017 election, compared to past elections.


text: Coronavirus rates among teachers are 333% above the average.
claimant: TES
claim_date: 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/teacher-covid-transmission/
title: We don’t know whether teachers are more likely to catch Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim comes from incomparable data. We don’t know whether teachers are more likely to catch Covid or not.


text: Social distancing doesn’t work because air droplets can travel up to 25 feet.
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:
Evidence shows sneezing can propel air droplets up to 25 feet but infectivity significantly increases at distances less than two metres.


text: Covid-19 has been found to cause blood clotting.
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
textual_rating:
It is true that abnormal blood clotting has been observed in some Covid-19 patients, but this is not the only potential serious outcome of the disease.


text: The IMF forecasts that the UK will have stronger growth than Germany, France and Italy.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rishi-sunak-jeremy-hunt-long-term-GDP-growth/
title: Rishi Sunak’s GDP growth claim based on long-term forecasts - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true looking at longer-term projections—Treasury figures based on IMF projections suggest that between 2025 and 2028 the UK will have higher cumulative GDP growth than Italy, France and Germany. But in both 2023 and 2024 the UK is projected to have the second lowest growth rate in the G7.


text: People are abandoning pets due to fears of Covid-19 transmission.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rspca-covid-Facebook/
review_date: 2020-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The RSPCA has said that they are worried people will abandon pets because the economic effects of Covid-19 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The RSPCA says that lockdown saw lower numbers of abandoned pets, but that they fear the economic effects of the pandemic will lead to a rise.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-29T00:00:00Z
title: Viral posts about Covid-19 symptoms contain false information - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of 26/27 degrees. It hates the Sun.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/viral-posts-sharing-symptoms-and-treatments-covid-19-contain-false-information/

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence for this. There’s evidence that similar viruses transmit less well in the heat, but many countries with reported Covid-19 cases are experiencing temperatures higher than this.


text: Boris Johnson is taking £70 a week away from pensioners.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-lose-70-a-week/
title: Some pensioners will lose £70 a week, but Boris Johnson didn’t introduce the change - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some pensioners will lose £70 a week under reforms introduced in the 2007 Pensions Act. In May 2019 the number receiving this benefit was around 11,000.


text: There has been a decade of efficiency savings in the NHS.
claimant: YouTube user
claim_date: 2017-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-video-factchecked/
title: NHS video, factchecked - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There have been a number of efficiency initiatives over the years. Trusts have been increasing their efficiency since at least 2008/09, according to official analysis.


text: There was no breach of the Ministerial Code.
claimant: Michael Gove
claim_date: 2021-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/michael-gove-public-first/
title: Was Michael Gove right about court ruling over bias in contracts? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Cabinet Office has said there will be no investigation into whether there was a breach as Michael Gove was not personally involved in the awarding of the contract.


text: EU membership adds up to £91bn a year to the UK economy
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:
The study behind this claim estimated that being in the EU benefits the UK between £73-91 billion a year. These are very precise figures for a very uncertain impact.


text: Coughing repeatedly and vigorously can help you survive a heart attack.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cpr-cough-heart-attack-cardiac/
title: Vigorous coughing will not save you during a heart attack - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a recognised form of treatment and could make any medical issues worse. If you think someone is having a heart attack, immediately call 999.


text: Eight-five percent of people aged over 65 play video games every week.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2023-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/old-age-gamers-playing-weekly/
title: Not true that 85% of over-65s play video games every week - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures are from a poll of those over 65 who are already playing games or interested in gaming, so they cannot be applied to the overall population.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/queen-manchester-united-ronaldo/
title: No evidence the Queen ordered 80 Manchester United shirts - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Queen Elizabeth II has ordered 80 Manchester United shirts and asked for Cristiano Ronaldo’s signature.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence to suggest this is true, and the account which appeared to first announce the rumour has since deleted the tweet, citing their inability to verify it.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-claims-symptoms-viral/
title: Viral post about someone’s uncle’s coronavirus advice is not all it’s cracked up to be - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If someone with the new coronavirus sneezes, it travels about 10 feet before it drops to the ground and is no longer airborne

textual_rating:
How far the droplets spread from a sneeze depends on environmental factors, but it is likely to be several metres.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
title: Viral posts about Covid-19 symptoms contain false information - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If someone with the new coronavirus sneezes, it travels about 10 feet before it drops to the ground and is no longer airborne

textual_rating:
Environmental factors impact how far droplets from a sneeze can travel, but it is likely to be several metres.


text: An “Australian terms” trade deal could be called a deal on Mongolian or Afghan terms.
claimant: Andrew Marr
claim_date: 2020-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/afghanistan-australia-canada-trade/
title: What does an "Australia style" Brexit deal really mean? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mongolia and Afghanistan actually have more favourable trade terms with the EU, at least as far as tariffs are concerned, than Australia.


text: Denmark and other European countries send asylum seekers to Rwanda
claimant: Jake Berry
claim_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/sir-jake-berry-asylum-seekers-rwanda/
title: Do any European countries send asylum seekers to Rwanda? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No European countries currently deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, as the UK government proposes. EU countries do fund a scheme that resettles asylum seekers from Libya to Rwanda for their own safety.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/david-icke-midazolam/
title: Covid-19 is real and not a government euthanasia policy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There's no evidence there is a Covid-19 virus. The illusion of it has been manifested by using a fake test and fraudulent death certificates.

textual_rating:
Covid-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This has been proven using laboratory testing and seen through medical imaging.

Covid-19 tests can accurately detect current or recent Covid-19 infection, and the cause of death on a death certificate is recorded by a doctor. There’s no evidence that these have been falsified.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-Chester-Zoo-giveawy-post/
title: Fake Facebook giveaway not connected to Chester Zoo - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Chester Zoo confirmed the competition and the page sharing it are not genuine.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Chester Zoo is offering a prize giveaway on Facebook for users who comment ‘Happy Birthday’ on a post shared by a page called ‘The Chester Wildlife Park’.


text: Iain Duncan Smith MP gets a £77 lunch allowance.
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:
This is not correct. MPs can claim £25 per night for food expenses if they stay overnight outside of their constituency and the London area.


claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2015-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/theres-only-so-much-8-billion-will-buy-you-nhs/
title: There's only so much £8 billion will buy you in the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The "Stevens plan" for an extra £8bn into the NHS can help to fund better mental health services, among other things.

textual_rating:
£8bn is the minimum amount required to keep services at current levels.  It is not extra money to pay for extra services.


claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lung-cancer-drug-brexit/
title: Conflicting claims about ‘new’ cancer drug thanks to Brexit are both misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A new lung cancer drug has been authorised under an international scheme that the UK has been able to join post Brexit.

textual_rating:
The medication has had EU authorisation since 2016 but the recent authorisation has allowed a new use of the medication, earlier in the disease. This has not yet been authorised in the EU.


text: Fee-paying schools ‘save the taxpayer £20 billion’.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2019-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/times-front-page-error-independent-schools/
title: Front-page error from the Times about how much private schools save taxpayers - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. A report estimated that educating privately-schooled children in state schools would cost £3.5 billion per year.


text: The Conservatives are giving a record £14 billion to schools.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/schools-spend-record-levels/
title: Is schools spending going to be at record levels? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Once you account for inflation the increase between 2019/20 and 2022/23 is £4.3 billion in England. This isn’t a record increase in terms of spending per pupil (which is the most meaningful measure).


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/leaving-single-market/
title: Leaving the single market - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Treasury forecast that dropping out of the European single market will cost the economy £66 billion and reduce GDP by 7.5%.

textual_rating:
This is confusing estimates for GDP with estimates for tax revenue. The Treasury does expect GDP to be 7.5% lower than it otherwise would have been after 15 years, if the UK relies on World Trade Organisation rules outside of the single market. But the £66 billion figure is for the resulting loss to public finances, not the economy, and it's the upper limit - £52 billion is the Treasury's best estimate.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sun-childhood-pneumonia/
title: Research on long term effects of childhood infections misreported - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pneumonia accounts for a quarter of deaths from lower respiratory tract infections, and the latest data is over a decade old.

textual_rating:
We have data from 2021 on cause of deaths. Pneumonia accounted for over three quarters of lower respiratory infection deaths in that year. The absolute figure is around 40x that reported by the Sun.


text: Putting a doctor through medical school “costs the taxpayer” £230,000.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
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:
That’s wrong. About £64,300 of that comes in student loans, most of which the government gets back. The rest comes in grants for tuition, living costs and clinical placements.


claimant: Lisa Nandy MP
claim_date: 2018-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/councils-arent-getting-enough-funding-meet-demand-social-care/
title: Councils aren’t getting enough funding to meet demand for social care - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Local authorities are bringing in less money in council tax at the moment than they're spending out just in vulnerable adult and children care alone.

textual_rating:
Council tax revenues raised in England in 2017/18 were £500 million less than the adult and children’s social care budget for councils in the same year, according to the Local Government Association. Government data suggests council tax revenue was £5 billion higher. The main source of council budgets is money from central government, which has been falling in recent years.


text: Absolute poverty and relative poverty have both declined under this government.
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
title:
Boris Johnson incorrect to say Keir Starmer is “completely wrong” about past trends in child poverty - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Government figures show that relative low income was at the same level in 2018/19 as in 2009/10 while absolute low income fell by one percentage point. Another measure of poverty, produced by the Social Metrics Commission, does show a fall under this government.


text: Absolute poverty and relative poverty have both declined under this government.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53181798
title: Child poverty: Boris Johnson's claims fact-checked
review_date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: BBC
publisher_site: bbc.co.uk
textual_rating:
Relative poverty has increased since 2009-10 while absolute poverty has declined. But Boris Johnson has only been PM since July 2019 and we do not have figures to compare since his government began.


claimant: Richard Tice
claim_date: 2017-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/does-labour-expect-run-pound/
title: Does Labour expect a run on the pound? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Jeremy Corbyn has already accepted that there is going to be a run on the pound in the event of a Labour government.

textual_rating:
Labour has not accepted this. But some party members do want to “scenario-plan” for how they would deal with this issue in government.


text: ATTC VR-84 is a patent for Zika virus that comes from the Rockefeller Foundation.
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 name of a certain strain of Zika virus, which was first isolated in the 1940s in a lab funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. This strain was not patented.


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
textual_rating: We don’t know how long the virus survives on surfaces yet—it may be between hours and days.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If it drops on a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours - so if you come into contact with any metal surface - wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-influencer-video-full-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Viral influencer video full of false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The government has confirmed this is untrue and there are no plans to do this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government can introduce restrictions on Universal Credit where you can’t get it unless you get tested and unless you get 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: They may be used in certain vaccines’ production, but are unlikely to make it to the final product.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Human and animal cells from sources like aborted foetuses are in vaccines and are linked to childhood leukaemia and diabetes.


text: If you think you’re having a heart attack, coughing repeatedly and vigorously could help you.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/do-not-attempt-cough-cpr/
title: Don’t attempt ‘cough CPR’ if you think you’re having a heart attack - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This should not be attempted. If you think you or someone else is having a heart attack you should call 999 immediately.


text: An elderly man with dementia named Gerald has gone missing with his dog Jack.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hoax-alert-gerald-robertson/
title: Hoax posts about ‘missing’ man called Gerald spread across UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax alert. The picture of the man and dog was taken from a rescue centre based in Texas and police in Scotland have previously warned that posts using the same picture are fake.


claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-labour-councils-cost-you-less/
title: Do Labour councils cost you £350 less in council tax? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People living in Labour councils pay on average £351 less council tax than those living in Tory councils.

textual_rating:
Technically correct for England in 2019/20, based on the average bill per eligible home, but this isn’t very meaningful. Many residents pay council tax to more than one body, so it’s difficult to attribute the cost of council tax to a single council or party.


text: A 50% cut in VAT on fuel will reduce the cost of filling up an average family car by £10.
claimant: Penny Mordaunt
claim_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/conservative-leadership-2022-fact-checked/
title: Conservative leadership contest: four early claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is slightly too high. Filling up a car with a 55 litre tank with diesel or petrol would be around £9 cheaper if VAT was halved.


claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/women-killed-by-men/
title: Women killed by men - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Currently, there are at least two or three women per week who are killed by their ex-partners or current partners.

textual_rating:
Official statistics, and separate figures from Women’s Aid, show around 80 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in the latest year they cover.


text: FFP3 respirators provide 99% protection against Covid-19.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/evidence-shows-masks-do-offer-protection-covid-19/
title: The evidence shows surgical masks do offer protection from Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
FFP3 respirators will filter out 99% of particles and are recommended as personal protective equipment for people working with Covid-19 patients.


text: The number of children "up for adoption" has fallen.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/fall-number-children-being-placed-adoption/
title: Fall in the number of children being placed for adoption - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The number of children granted a placement order - one of the first steps before a child can be adopted - has fallen by 24% in the last year in England. The number of completed adoptions has continued to rise, but at a slower rate.


text: Serco owns Obamacare.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/prince-william-serco/
title: Prince William does not own Serco - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Obamacare refers to legislation passed in 2010 that aims to allow more Americans to be covered by health insurance but has proved controversial. Nobody “owns” it as such.
Serco has won contracts with the US Health Department, including those around health insurance.


claimant: Penny Mordaunt
claim_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/penny-mordaunt-keir-starmer-polling/
review_date: 2022-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Polling shows that Penny Mordaunt is the only Conservative leadership candidate capable of beating Labour’s Keir Starmer.

title:
Polling doesn't show Penny Mordaunt is the only Conservative leadership candidate who can beat Keir Starmer - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Ms Mordaunt hasn’t explained which polls her claim was based on. While one early poll showed her rated highly in Greater London compared to Mr Starmer and other Conservative candidates, a second poll asking the same question had a different result. None of the other polling we’ve seen supports her claim.


text: Interest payments on the national debt cost the government £46 billion a year.
claimant: Ben Wallace
claim_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/interest-payments-national-debt/
title: Interest payments on the national debt - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s about right for 2015/16, although the government effectively paid some of that to itself because it went to the state-owned Bank of England. Ignoring these payments, the government spent around £33 billion on debt interest that year.


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 6.7% drop in GDP.

textual_rating:
The government estimated a free trade agreement Brexit could lead to GDP being 6.7% 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 GDP compared to now.


text: 50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24.
claimant: Mental Health Foundation
claim_date: 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/what-age-do-mental-health-conditions-develop/
title: What age do mental health conditions develop at? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was the finding of an American study that interviewed people to diagnose mental health conditions and asked them about when their condition began. The study’s authors said the findings were likely to be “conservative” and that some people might not remember when their condition started correctly.


text: Between 80,000 and 100,000 children are not on any school rolls at all.
claimant: Dame Rachel de Souza
claim_date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/children-off-school-roll-covid/
title: We don’t know how many children aren’t on school rolls - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Children's Commissioner misspoke when she made this claim. There is no current data to support this.


text: Half of NHS staff will see an average pay increase of 4%.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-nhs-workers-getting-4-pay-rise/
title: Are NHS workers getting a 4% pay rise? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct for 2016/17 according to the NHS Pay Review Body, although we haven’t seen the figures in full. Pay levels have been frozen at 1%, but individuals will be entitled to more money as they move up pay bands.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cadbury-hamper-october-2022/
title: Halloween Cadbury chocolate hamper offer is not genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Cadbury is offering to send each person who shares social media content a chocolate hamper for Halloween.

textual_rating:
False. The offer has no official affiliation with Cadbury and ultimately links to a page which requests the user make a purchase in order to receive “free” Cadbury products.


text: All of the Covid-19 variants have planned release dates.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-variants-who-bill-gates/
title: Covid variants weren’t planned - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
They don’t. These claims come from a document that seems to be fake that has been circulating since July and been debunked numerous times.


text: An independent Scotland wouldn’t be forced to join the euro once it applied to rejoin the EU.
claimant: Nicola Sturgeon
claim_date: 2019-11-19T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/election-2019/its-unclear-whether-independent-scotland-could-be-forced-join-euro-eu-member/

title:
It’s unclear whether an independent Scotland could be forced to join the euro as an EU member - Full Fact

textual_rating:
New member states are officially required to adopt the euro at some point unless they have negotiated specific opt-outs, but in practice it's unclear whether members would or could be forced to.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-man-simon-hendricks-silver-alert/
title: Fake missing man appeal uses picture of pet detective - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows a man called Simon Hendricks, 64, who has gone missing with his dog Cami in Northern Ireland.

textual_rating:
The appeal appears in multiple Facebook groups in the US and UK, indicating a man by that name is not really missing. The image used is taken of a pet detective working in Ohio.


text: There are record numbers of GPs.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
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
textual_rating:
Total GP headcount and FTE numbers in England hit a record high last August. They are slightly down since, though this may be because GP numbers tend to peak at the end of every summer. Again, the number of GP trainees is rising sharply and there are fewer FTE fully qualified GPs than before the pandemic.


text: The CDC has ‘dropped’ the RT-PCR Test.
claimant: TrialSite News
claim_date: 2021-12-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/CDC-PCR-Tests-trial-news/
title: The CDC has not ‘dropped’ all PCR tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The CDC has withdrawn its request for emergency use authorisation for one particular type of PCR test. This is because more efficient PCR tests are now available.


text: An article published in a Papuan newspaper criticises the state of affairs in the UK.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/papua-new-guinea-courier-satire/
title: Viral ‘Letter from London’ article is part of satirical series - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The article is part of a satirical series published on The Secret Tory blog, not a real newspaper article.


claimant: Katie Hopkins
claim_date: 2019-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/we-factchecked-viral-video-asylum-seekers/
title: We factchecked a viral video on asylum seekers - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Asylum seekers may see a doctor or get hospital treatment for free, and free prescriptions for medicine, free eye tests and free glasses.

textual_rating:
Asylum seekers aren’t charged for GP visits, hospital treatment, or prescriptions. They may be eligible for free eye tests and vouchers for glasses.


text: In that 6 months, 2,000 people have died with no financial help whatsoever.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/universal-credit-review-2000-deaths/
review_date: 2020-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
This claim that 2,000 people have died waiting for benefits since a Universal Credit review was announced needs context - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Around 17,070 people died over five years, waiting for a decision on their Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application. Researchers used this to get an average of 1,700 over six months. PIP is one type of benefit people with a terminal illness can get.


claimant: Robert Jenrick
claim_date: 2023-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/jenrick-devolved-administrations-refugees/
title: Do Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland take their ‘fair share’ of refugees? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Devolved administrations which have rhetorically welcomed refugees fail to take their fair share of them.

textual_rating:
It appears this claim from Mr Jenrick may have been referring to asylum seekers, and as of December 2022, it is true Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland received proportionally fewer asylum seekers than England. The data on refugees more broadly is limited. The data we have suggests Scotland and Wales receive proportionally more refugees than England from certain schemes for resettlement, and more people through the Ukraine sponsorship scheme.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/comfrey-teeth-toxic/
title: Using the herb comfrey on teeth could be dangerous for health - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Comfrey stimulates regeneration of tissue in teeth and gums and should be used as a mouthwash every day.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. Using comfrey by mouth can carry risk of liver damage and links to cancer have been found in animal testing.


text: There are eight vaccine deaths per day.
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
textual_rating:
Since we started vaccinating people in the UK, about eight people a day or 1,102 overall have died a short while after getting the vaccine. These are not “vaccine deaths” and the number is in line with how many we would expect from other causes in that time period.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mp-doctors-nurses-midwives-paramedics-radiographers-salaries/
title: MPs cannot claim for alcohol from expenses - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The starting salaries quoted are correct for 2021.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
MPs earn a starting salary of £81,932, higher than the starting salaries for nurses, midwives, paramedics and radiographers (£25,655) and junior doctors (£28,808).


text: There are 11,500 more doctors now than there were in 2010.
claimant: David Lidington
claim_date: 2017-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/number-doctors-and-nurses-nhs-england/
title: The number of doctors and nurses in NHS England - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t a fair comparison. The most recent comparable figures show the increase was less than that: about 9,000 more FTE doctors between September 2010 and 2016.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-business-opinion/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: business opinion - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The big banks and multinationals might be lobbying to keep us in the EU, but small and medium-sized businesses feel differently

textual_rating:
There aren’t any representative surveys of business opinion generally that we’re aware of, but there is evidence that smaller businesses are more divided on the EU than larger businesses.


claimant: Lord Sumption
claim_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lord-sumption-covid-errors/
title: Lord Sumption made several errors about Covid on Today - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Only hundreds, not thousands, of people have died of Covid without any other pre-existing condition mentioned on their death certificate.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. There were 15,883 deaths recorded with no pre-existing condition in England and Wales alone, up to the end of March 2021.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/moderna-vaccine-effectiveness/
title: It’s misleading to compare the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines and the death rate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The survival rate of Covid-19 without the vaccine is greater than the effectiveness of the vaccine itself.

textual_rating:
The comparison with the reported effectiveness of the Moderna vaccine is misleading, as that’s looking at how many people get infected, not how many die.


text: Young British people would be called up to serve in an EU army.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/EU-army-conscription-September-2019/
title: UK citizens can’t be conscripted into an ‘EU army’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
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 security and defence policy so couldn’t be forced to participate in an EU army.


text: Labour’s plan to introduce four extra public holidays could cost Britain almost £10 billion.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/will-four-extra-bank-holidays-cost-us-10-billion/
title: Will four extra bank holidays cost us £10 billion? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s difficult to say exactly how much bank holidays affect the economy, but most research seems to agree that they reduce GDP. The £10 billion estimate is based on research from 2012 and the consultancy that produced it says it's out of date.


claimant: Stephen Farry
claim_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/northern-ireland-poll-protocol/
title: Poll saying 5% of Northern Ireland trusts UK government is about protocol specifically - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In a recent opinion poll conducted by LucidTalk for Queen’s University, only 5% of the people of Northern Ireland expressed any trust whatsoever in this government.

textual_rating:
Five percent of people said they either trusted a lot or somewhat trusted the UK government to manage the interests of Northern Ireland with respect to the Northern Ireland protocol.


text: Polish media accidentally published footage of Zelenskyy’s body double.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/zelenskyy-body-double-body-guard/
title: Zelenskyy’s ‘body double’ is really his head of security - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The footage was first published by Ukraine’s state broadcaster and appears to show the president’s head of security Maksym Donets, who has been photographed with the president many times over the years.


text: 62,000 people a day are tested for Covid-19 in the UK.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2020-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/angela-rayner-people-tested/
title: Angela Rayner’s testing numbers are not quite right - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know how many people are being tested, but it is more than 62,000, which only includes people newly tested in England.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/satellites-wuhan-sulphur-dioxide-coronavirus/
title: These aren’t satellite images and they don’t show evidence of mass cremations in Wuhan - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Satellite images showing high levels of sulphur dioxide above China are possible evidence of mass cremations of people who have died from coronavirus.

textual_rating:
False. The maps are not satellite images, and do not show actual levels of sulphur dioxide. They are simply forecasts based on historical data and weather patterns.


text: Rail fares have risen by 25% since 2010.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2015-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/please-do-not-board-train-rail-fare-claims-held-red-signal/
title: Please do not board this train: rail fare claims held at red signal - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, but refers to all rail fares rather than just regulated fares, as has been widely quoted.


text: Three quarters of hospitals in England are unsafe.
claimant: David Behan, Chief Executive, Care Quality Commission
claim_date: 2015-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-three-quarters-hospitals-england-unsafe/
title: Are three-quarters of hospitals in England 'unsafe'? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the sum of hospitals rated inadequate or requiring improvements in safety by the Care Quality Commission. It doesn't define all these as unsafe. The inspected hospitals aren't known to be representative of all hospitals in England.


text: Child poverty increased by 250,000 in a single year under the Conservatives.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/child-poverty-depending-how-you-look-it/
title: Child poverty is up, depending on how you look at it - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct by one measure. According to HMRC the number of children in poverty went from 18% to 20% between 2013 and 2014, an increase of 250,000 children. This is a return to 2010 levels.


claimant: Brandon Lewis
claim_date: 2023-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/brandon-lewis-voter-ID-post-office-library/
title: Brandon Lewis misleading to compare voter ID to picking up parcel or library book - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Needing ID to vote is the same as needing ID to pick up a parcel from the Post Office or take a book out of the library.

textual_rating:
Voter identification must be in the form of photo ID, but this is not the case in Post Offices or libraries.


text: An MP’s salary was £66,000 in 2010 and £77,000 in 2018.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-pay-tweet/
title: This tweet on public sector pay doesn’t factor in inflation - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This doesn’t factor in inflation. In 2018 prices, MPs' pay remained stable between 2010 and 2018 at around £77,400.


text: EU members can be forced to leave the euro or the EU.
claimant: Steve Peers
claim_date: 2015-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/grexit-legal/
title: Is Grexit legal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Countries can leave the EU voluntarily, but can't be kicked out. Strictly speaking, there's no legal mechanism for a country to either leave or be ejected from the euro.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Ealing-15-minute-cities/
title: No plans to restrict the use of cars by creating 20-minute neighbourhoods in Ealing - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are plans to divide Ealing into seven local zones. Sanctions can be used to restrict the number of days per year that you are allowed to drive anywhere outside your own zone.

textual_rating:
Ealing Council says that it is currently consulting on a plan which references the idea of “20 minute neighbourhoods”, but this plan does not involve any restrictions on the use of cars.


text: Covid-19 vaccines are poison.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-can-be-fatal-underlying-cause-of-death/
title: Covid-19 can be fatal and tests for it aren’t rigged - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The NHS says that the Covid-19 vaccines approved for use in the UK have “met strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness”.


text: A chicken welfare association has paused hen adoptions because people were buying them for food.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-rabbit-food/
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
An adoption centre did pause adoptions of rabbits for fear they’d be used as food, but there’s no evidence it’s widespread - Full Fact

textual_rating:
It is true the British Hen Welfare trust has paused adoptions until the Covid-19 situation improves, but it is not clear why. The RSPCA said it hasn’t received any reports of these animals being killed for food.


claimant: David Dimbleby
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
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An earlier version of the Dubs Amendment specified that the government should accept 3,000 child refugees from Europe.


text: Immigration adds a city the size of Cardiff to the UK’s population every year.
claimant: Neil Hamilton AM
claim_date: 2016-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/net-migration-equalled-city-size-cardiff-2016/
title: Net migration equals a city the size of Cardiff - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Net migration in the UK was 327,000 in the year to March. Cardiff has a population of 357,000. But this isn’t true every year. In 2014 net migration was 243,000.


text: The proposal to introduce a points-based system would wreck the economy.
claimant: Britain Stronger In Europe
claim_date: 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/what-would-australian-style-points-system-mean-uk-immigration/
title: What would an Australian-style immigration points system mean for the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Setting up a points-based system would likely involve leaving the single market, and most economists say that would have a negative impact on the economy.


text: The World Health Organisation has declared the Covid-19 pandemic over.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/who-covid-pandemic-over/
title: The WHO has not declared the Covid-19 pandemic over - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It has not. The pandemic has been downgraded from the highest alert level and is no longer considered a public health emergency of international concern. But the WHO says the pandemic is ongoing and remains a global health risk.


claimant: Daily Expose
claim_date: 2021-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-passports-nhsx/
title: NHSX website doesn’t reveal vaccine passport roll out - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Text on NHSX website is proof that vaccine passports will definitely be introduced in December 2021.

textual_rating:
The text refers to the way exemptions will be viewed on the NHS COVID app. 

The Department of Health and Social Care have confirmed that vaccine passports are an “option” but there are no firm plans.


text: Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is designed to change people’s DNA.
claimant: Jeanette Wilson
claim_date: 2021-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/moderna-vaccine-not-change-dna/
title: Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine will not change your DNA - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. mRNA vaccines like Moderna’s instruct cells in the body to make proteins. They do not change their DNA.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Maui-photo-San-Diego-2003/
title: Photo showing ‘selective’ fires in Maui is actually from San Diego in 2003 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows the aftermath of recent fires in Maui. It claims the fires were ‘selective’ because the trees survived while the houses burned down.

textual_rating:
The photo actually shows a neighbourhood in San Diego following a wildfire in 2003. There are several theories for why the trees didn’t catch fire.


text: It will cost the UK £378 billion to extend the transition period between the UK and the EU.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2020-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-transition-period-economic-cost-public-opinion/
review_date: 2020-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Claim that extending the Brexit transition period could cost £380 billion is not credible - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This estimate is based on a one-sided analysis which doesn’t seem to factor in any economic benefit of retaining free trade with the EU during the transition period. Most studies suggest these benefits outweigh potential gains from trade agreements and deregulation after the transition period ends.


text: Gazing at the sun will not cause blindness, if done at sunset or sunrise.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sungazing-sunglasses-eyes-blindness/
title: Looking at the sun can cause blindness - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true–sunlight always contains UV light, and this can cause severe and irreversible eye problems with prolonged exposure, especially if looking directly at the sun.


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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 clots the blood causing thrombosis, stopping blood flow and oxygenating the heart and lungs.

textual_rating:
Severe Covid-19 can cause blood clotting problems and issues like this have been seen in Covid-19 patients, but this is not the only thing that can be fatal in patients.


text: The Department of Health and Social Care gave private firms a record £9.2 billion in 2018.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2019-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/record-amount-private-providers-NHS/
title: Was a record amount spent on private providers by the Department of Health? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The department spent £9.2 billion on purchasing health care from private providers in 2018/19. That’s a record amount of spending in cash terms, but not in real terms or as a proportion of the department’s budget.


text: 55% of the NHS budget is spent on the over 85s.
claimant: Gina Miller
claim_date: 2018-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-much-nhs-budget-spent-people-over-85/
title: How much of the NHS budget is spent on people over 85? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can't find any data to support this. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that by 2021/22 around 10% of health spending across the UK will go on those aged 85 plus.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2016-08-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/125000-operations-predicted-be-cancelled/
title: Are 125,000 operations predicted to be cancelled? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Between 13,000 and 125,000 operations will be cancelled as a result of upcoming junior doctors’ strikes.

textual_rating:
The current estimate is 125,000 operations cancelled, this figure is based on the number of operations which were cancelled over two days during the last strike in April. However, these figures were calculated before the specific dates were announced and before the September strike was suspended


text: Covid-19 is no worse than a bad flu season.
claimant: David Kurten
claim_date: 2020-09-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-flu-season-david-kurten/
title: London Mayor candidate wrong to claim Covid-19 pandemic is no worse than a flu season - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a flawed comparison, as the number of deaths from Covid-19 far exceeds the number of deaths from flu in a given season, despite the much stricter controls in place.


text: The Chinese have built a railway station in nine hours.
claimant: Isabel Oakeshott
claim_date: 2018-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/china-didnt-build-new-railway-station-nine-hours/
title: China didn’t build a new railway station in nine hours - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t quite right. The nine-hour construction project in Longyan was to upgrade an existing station by adding a new section of track connecting existing lines, not to build an entire new station.


text: Labour’s freedom of movement plan could increase net migration to 840,000 a year.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/labour-free-movement-policy/
title: Conservative claim about immigration under Labour is not credible - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Labour hasn’t published its manifesto yet, and the methods used to reach this number are not credible.


text: A child named Tyler Miller is missing from Lincoln.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-child-tyler-miller/
title: Fake post about child ‘missing’ after baseball practice circulating online - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a real missing persons appeal. The picture is actually of a girl from Australia, and the wording of the post is very similar to a number of fake posts we have previously checked.


text: An image of Neil Armstrong’s space boots do not match an image of his footprints on the moon.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Apollo-11-moon-boots/
title: The boots Neil Armstrong wore on the moon do match the footprints he left there - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Neil Armstrong wore moon boots over the spacesuit in the picture when he walked on the moon. These moon boots do match pictures of his and Buzz Aldrin’s footprints.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/meryl-streep-king-kong/
title: Photo of Meryl Streep on the subway is not after King Kong audition - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. The photograph was taken years later, when Ms Streep was a successful actress.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photograph shows Meryl Streep on the New York subway shortly after an unsuccessful audition for a role in King Kong.


text: According to the Lisbon Treaty, in 2022 we would have to give up our sovereignty.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Lisbon-treaty-short-list/
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Most of these claims about the EU aren’t true and have nothing to do with the Lisbon Treaty - Full Fact

textual_rating:
EU law does has supremacy over domestic law in some areas. The UK has some veto power and several opt-outs. If no EU law is applicable, UK parliament and courts are supreme. The Lisbon Treaty, which came into force in 2009, doesn’t mention anything about this changing in 2022.


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
text:
The emergency alert test on 23 April will involve replying to a text message and until you do the use of your phone will be limited.

textual_rating:
The alert will be like a notification that you need to acknowledge before you can use other features. You do not need to “reply”. Notifications will reportedly still appear and phone calls will come through even if you haven’t acknowledged the alert.


text: 61% of acute hospitals are in deficit at the moment.
claimant: Rebecca Long-Bailey
claim_date: 2017-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-social-care-nhs-spending/
title: How much is spent on health and social care in the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was the proportion of acute hospital trusts in in NHS England in deficit by the end of 2016/17. So far in 2017/18 the figure is 83%.


claimant: David Warburton MP
claim_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-claims-david-warburton/
title: Several coronavirus claims made by MP in newspaper are inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The ONS have estimated that the restrictions across 2020 will have resulted in 200,000 non-Covid excess deaths.

textual_rating:
The ONS and other public bodies estimated there may be 12,500 non-Covid early deaths due to delays in treatment in the long term. The 200,000 figure was from an earlier estimate.


text: Disadvantaged children who go to grammar school progress twice as fast than their better-off peers.
claimant: Justine Greening
claim_date: 2017-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/do-poor-grammar-schools-pupils-make-twice-much-progress/
title: Do poor grammar schools pupils make twice as much progress? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s the finding of one study, from 2004. The relatively few poor children who attend grammar schools seem to progress more than wealthier children, but those in the schools around them perform worse.


text: Two thirds of knife offenders under 25 were black or minority ethnic.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2018-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-majority-youth-knife-offenders-minority-ethnic/
title: Are a majority of youth knife offenders minority ethnic? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In England and Wales 38% of knife possession offenders under 25s were non-white in 2017. It was two thirds in London.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/india-is-doing-it-hoax-message/
title: WhatsApp messages about a video called “India is doing it” are a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video circulating on WhatsApp called “India is doing it” can hack your phone in ten seconds if opened or seen.

textual_rating:
This message is a hoax. Messages with similar wording about Argentina have also been debunked by fact checkers.


text: After nine years of a Conservative government, police numbers are down 20%.
claimant: Freddie Bailey
claim_date: 2019-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/nine-years-of-conservative-government/
title: Viral post about Conservatives’ record in government gets lots of things wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The total police workforce in England and Wales fell by 17% between March 2010 and March 2019, under coalition and Conservative governments. Police officer numbers fell by 14% in the same period.


text: There are over 500 more dentists working in the NHS this year compared to last year.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-dentists-rishi-sunak-bda/
review_date: 2023-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
NHS dentist statistics don’t support PM’s claim that there are over 500 more ‘this year’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This isn’t right, according to the latest published statistics. This figure appears to refer to the increase in the number of dentists in England carrying out NHS work in 2021/22, not “this year”. New FOI data released by the British Dental Association suggests there may have been about 700 fewer NHS dentists in 2022/23, though this data may not be complete. Either way, a headcount of the number of dentists doing some NHS work doesn’t tell the full story about NHS dental capacity.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/number-detentions-under-mental-health-act-rising/
title: The number of detentions under the Mental Health Act is rising - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People from black and minority ethnic populations are most affected by detentions under the Mental Health Act.

textual_rating:
If you're black and minority ethnic, you're more likely to be detained than if you're white. Overall, more white people are detained, since they make up a larger portion of the population.


text: There are fewer good schools in the Midlands and North of England compared to the South.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
title: Secondary schools in the South perform better than other parts of England - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/secondary-schools-south-perform-better-ofsted-inspections-schools-north-and-midlands/

textual_rating:
That’s correct according to Ofsted ratings. There’s a small North-South divide in the percentage of primary schools rated “good” or “outstanding”, and a significant one when it comes to secondary schools.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2019-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/have-most-deprived-councils-seen-biggest-reductions-funding/
title: Have the most deprived councils seen the biggest reductions in funding? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nine of the ten most deprived council areas in this country have seen cuts that are almost three times the average of any other council.

textual_rating:
The figures used in this analysis aren’t comparable over time in this way. But analysis by the National Audit Office shows that these ten councils have all had a greater proportion of their funding reduced than the percentage across all councils put together.


text: Between 300 and 500 excess deaths a week are occurring due to delays in A&E.
claimant: Royal College of Emergency Medicine
claim_date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/accident-emergency-delays-excess-deaths/
title: How many excess deaths are A&E delays causing? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is an estimate from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for the total number of deaths due to long A&E waits. It’s based on limited data and makes a number of assumptions, so we can’t say for sure how accurate it is. But some other experts have calculated broadly similar estimates or told Full Fact the figure is plausible.


text: A Polish study has found that mRNA vaccines may be damaging brain cells and immune systems.
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
textual_rating:
This study is a pre-print, which means it has not been peer reviewed or published through a scientific journal. The website hosting the paper specifically warns the media not to report the results as conclusive.


text: Losses from tax evasion are £35 billion each year.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hmrc-tax-fraud-dwp-benefit-fraud/
title: Viral figures on benefit fraud and tax evasion are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. HMRC estimated the ‘tax gap’ to be close to this amount in 2019/20, but this also includes losses due to error, tax avoidance and other behaviours. The latest published figures are for 2020/21, when it was estimated £4.8 billion was lost to tax evasion.


text: Hydroxychloroquine and zinc have been used all over the world to cure Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nottingham-conspiracy-theories/
title: Luminescent enzymes not in Covid-19 vaccine and other myths debunked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
They haven’t. Studies looking at hydroxychloroquine alone or in combination with zinc show no effect either as a treatment or as a preventative measure.


claimant: Social media user
claim_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nadine-dorries-fake-tweet/
title: Nadine Dorries didn’t say ‘food doesn’t grow on trees’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is a fake tweet.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nadine Dorries said people should stop moaning about the demand for food banks, and families would need to “live within their means” because “food doesn’t grow on trees”.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Mcdonalds-halal/
title: Fake claims about McDonald’s ingredients are recirculating on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The council of Islamic justice has withdrawn its guarantee certificate as it also found that even the spices, ketchup and mayonnaise are mixed and made from grease of pork.

textual_rating:
McDonald’s UK does not claim to offer specifically halal options, but we can find no evidence its vegetarian sauces or spices contain pork grease.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/10-billion-whats-going-on/
title: £10 billion or £4.5 billion: what's going on with NHS spending? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government is providing not just the £8 billion of extra funding that the NHS requested, but £10 billion of extra funding.

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


text: A photo shows Pope Francis addressing a crowd of two million people in Lisbon.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/pope-francis-crowds-AI/
title: Viral image of Pope Francis addressing crowds is AI generated - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The image is created using AI. While Pope Francis did address large crowds in Lisbon earlier this month, this is not a real photo.  Half a million people were reportedly at the event.


text: Pay rises have been fastest for people at the bottom because of the new National Living Wage.
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
textual_rating:
Earnings have increased faster for people on lower incomes in recent years, although the National Living Wage doesn’t target those at the very bottom.


text: 400,000 more children are in absolute poverty under the Conservatives.
claimant: Owen Smith
claim_date: 2017-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/400000-children-absolute-poverty/
title: Are 400,000 more children in absolute poverty since 2010? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. The exact change in child poverty under the Conservatives depends on the year you compare from, but none of the absolute measures shows this. Relative child poverty was estimated to have risen by 400,000 between 2010/11 and 2015/16—both including and excluding housing costs.


text: The railways are owned by the Dutch and German government.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/who-owns-britains-trains-energy-postal/
title: Who owns Britain’s trains, energy and postal service? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Governments in Germany, the Netherlands and France are shareholders in the companies and parent companies running around a dozen UK rail franchises.


text: After nine years of a Conservative government, local government funding is down 50%.
claimant: Freddie Bailey
claim_date: 2019-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/nine-years-of-conservative-government/
title: Viral post about Conservatives’ record in government gets lots of things wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Government funding for local authorities in England fell by 49% between 2010/11 and 2017/18 in real terms, under coalition and Conservative governments. Councils have other revenue sources, and total “spending power” fell 29% in real terms in the same period.


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:
Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals would lead to the kind of hit to the economy experienced in the financial crash.

textual_rating:
This is an unfair comparison as it equates real drops in GDP and wages during the financial crisis to the loss of potential earnings over longer time periods as a result of Brexit.


claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2018-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/what-was-promised-about-customs-union-referendum/
title: What was promised about the customs union before the referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Leave campaigners before the referendum weren’t consistent on whether Brexit meant leaving the customs union.

textual_rating:
The customs union was rarely mentioned by Leave campaigners before the referendum. There were generally calls for the UK to have an independent trade policy, though messages about specific trading arrangements weren’t always consistent.


text: Councils are making it a criminal offence to be poor.
claimant: The Canary
claim_date: 2017-04-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/is-it-crime-be-poor/
title: Is it a crime to be poor? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s considerably more complicated than that. Councils and police are often responding to perceived anti-social behaviour from rough sleepers rather than poverty or homelessness in itself, but to address it they do use powers that can, directly or indirectly, lead to a criminal penalty.


text: The Rockefeller Foundation planned the Covid-19 pandemic under the name ‘Operation Lockstep’.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-pandemic-was-not-planned-rockefeller-foundation/
title: Covid-19 pandemic was not planned by Rockefeller Foundation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is entirely false. ‘Lock Step’ was the name of a scenario planning exercise that examined what might happen in a future pandemic, but differs considerably from the current pandemic.


text: Betty White died three days after she received her Covid booster vaccine.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/betty-white-covid-booster-false/
title: Betty White did not get a Covid-19 booster vaccine three days before she died - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence of this. Her agent confirmed she died of natural causes and did not receive her booster three days before her death.


text: 100,000 illegal migrants have been stopped from making the crossing to the UK in the past year.
claimant: Daily Mail front page
claim_date: 2015-12-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/we-dont-know-100000-illegal-migrants-have-been-stopped-border/
title: We don't know that 100,000 illegal migrants have been stopped at the border - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The data doesn't allow us to say this. This is an unofficial projection based on Home Office data and depends upon the assumption that foiled attempts to cross the border have continued at the same rate as in April to July this year for the rest of the year.


text: Life expectancy in the UK is falling.
claimant: New York Times
claim_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/life-expectancy-uk-not-falling/
title: Life expectancy in the UK isn’t falling - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Growth in overall life expectancy has slowed down and almost stopped after over a century of increases. Life expectancies are falling in certain local authorities within the UK.


text: People in Leicester are being forcibly tested for Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/leicester-testing/
title: Leicester residents are not being forcibly tested for coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Both Leicester City Council and Leicestershire Police told Full Fact that no such methods are being used in the city. Testing across the UK is optional.


text: A video shows immigrants catching a seagull in London, probably with the intention of eating it.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/seagull-video-tower-bridge/
title: Video does not show ‘immigrants’ catching seagulls to ‘feast’ on - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video shows bird ringers catching a seagull, so that they can mark it for research purposes before releasing it.


text: Child poverty and pensioner poverty are up since 2010.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/child-and-pensioner-poverty-rising/
title: Is child and pensioner poverty rising? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Relative poverty has increased or stayed flat among children and pensioners, depending on how you measure it, but absolute poverty has fallen in some cases. We’ve asked the Department for Work and Pensions whether any of these changes are statistically significant.


url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-inequality-1997-2010/
title: Labour's record on inequality and social mobility: 1997 to 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Labour tripled the amount of help to the poorest countries and the UK became the first major developed nation to achieve the 0.7% of GDP aid target.

textual_rating:
It’s correct the amount of foreign aid from the UK roughly tripled between 1997 and 2010. The UK was the first country in the G7 or G20 to spend 0.7% of GNI on foreign aid, but this only happened in 2013 - after Labour left office - and several other European countries achieved this earlier.


text: The value of the pound has fallen 15% against the dollar and euro.
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:
The value of the pound has fallen by around 20% against the dollar, but it has increased slightly against the euro since 2010. The value of the pound against the euro has fallen around 15% since it peaked in 2015.


text: The World Health Organisation says that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is not infectious.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/radiation-video-covid/
title: Covid-19 is an infectious disease, and a video claiming it isn’t is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The World Health Organisation says that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is infectious.


text: The findings of these studies are linked to egg shortages.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eggs-covid-antibodies/
title: Egg yolks not shown to fight Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Industry groups report that egg shortages in the UK and USA are being caused by increasing production costs and the spread of bird flu.


claimant: David Lammy MP
claim_date: 2018-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/bme-students-oxford/
title: Black and ethnic minority students at the University of Oxford - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, for UK undergraduate applicants between 2015 and 2017.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You are twice as likely to get into the University of Oxford as a white applicant (24%) than a black applicant (12%).


text: The police don't normally look back and investigate things that have taken place a year ago.
claimant: Dominic Raab MP
claim_date: 2021-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/dominic-raab-police-investigate-downing-street-party/
title: Do police normally investigate things that happened a year ago? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Police often investigate alleged offences which took place years before. This is less clear cut in the context of breaches of Covid-19 regulations, which police say they do not routinely investigate retrospectively.


text: The Conservative government raised the armed services budget to 2% of GDP.
claimant: Camilla Cavendish
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:
Defence spending has never been below 2% of GDP in the years we have data for. In July 2015, the Conservative government pledged to spend 2% of GDP on defence in every year to the end of the decade.


text: NHS spending is going to increase by 3.4% a year.
claimant: Damian Green MP
claim_date: 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-spending-manifesto-pledges/
title: The latest plans for NHS England spending outstrip both main parties’ manifesto pledges - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct according to the government’s latest plans to 2023/24 for the NHS in England. This is in real terms, taking inflation into account.


text: Remaining in the EU means £50 billion more for the government to spend by 2024/25.
claimant: Jo Swinson
claim_date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/remain-bonus-reasonable-health-warning/
title: £50 billion “remain bonus” figure is a reasonable estimate but highly uncertain - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a fair assessment of the best available forecasts, comparing Remain to a Brexit deal scenario. But those forecasts themselves contain a high degree of uncertainty, so we shouldn’t treat £50 billion as definitive.


claimant: Rachel Clarke
claim_date: 2020-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/unskilled-workers-salary-cap/
title: Most of these NHS jobs are classed as “skilled” under new immigration rules - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the government’s new immigration rules anyone earning less than £25,600 is regarded as an unskilled worker.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. All workers applying for the skilled worker visa must have a salary of at least £20,480, and if it is below £25,600 they must also fulfil other criteria to gain a visa. Jobs are not classed by the government as “skilled” depending on salary.


text: Your doctor must see you in two weeks.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2022-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/two-week-waiting-time-expectation/
title: Two week waiting time for GP appointments not official requirement - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A maximum two week waiting time for patients who need a GP appointment has been set out as an “expectation” by the government, rather than a requirement.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/germany-covid-omicron-aids-expose-false/
title: Vaccinated Germans won’t have AIDS by the end of January 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
By the end of January 2022, all vaccinated Germans will have AIDS and be 100% more vulnerable to Covid infections.

textual_rating:
The figures this article is based on have since been corrected. There is no evidence that vaccines cause AIDS, that declining efficacy from a Covid vaccine would cause AIDS or that being vaccinated reduces your protection against Covid.


text: Grammar schools benefit some pupils.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2016-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/grammar-schools-benefit-some-pupils-majority-do-worse/
title: Grammar schools benefit some pupils but the majority do worse - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The evidence suggests pupils who get into grammar schools do better than they would under comprehensive education, but the majority who don’t get in do worse.


claimant: Guido Fawkes
claim_date: 2017-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/public-satisfaction-nhs-2015/
title: Public satisfaction with the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Public satisfaction with the NHS is higher after seven years of Conservative government than after the first five years of the last Labour government.

textual_rating:
It’s true that NHS satisfaction was higher in 2015 than 2002. Satisfaction went up significantly during the whole length of Labour’s last stint in power between 1997 and 2010, and has levelled off since the Conservatives entered office.


text: A small animal centre stopped new adoptions because people were buying them for food.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-rabbit-food/
review_date: 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
An adoption centre did pause adoptions of rabbits for fear they’d be used as food, but there’s no evidence it’s widespread - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The West Berkshire small animal centre was concerned that people might use it’s rabbits for food and so paused adoptions. The RSPCA said it hasn’t received any reports of these animals being killed for food.


claimant: Vince Cable
claim_date: 2017-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/10000-finance-jobs-lost-since-brexit/
title: 10,000 finance jobs lost since Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
10,000 jobs have already moved out of the financial services sector following the EU referendum vote.

textual_rating:
We’ve seen no evidence for this. A survey predicts 10,000 jobs might be moved from the UK if we leave the single market. We don’t know what kind of Brexit deal will be made and the survey has additional limitations.


claimant: Robert Jenrick
claim_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/jenrick-refugee-comparisons/
title: How many refugees does the UK resettle compared to other European countries? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
For resettlement schemes, the UK is second only to Sweden. For taking people from the United Nations, the UK ranks fourth in the world.

textual_rating:
The UK is second only to Sweden among EU+ countries in the number of refugees accepted through official resettlement schemes, and fourth in the world. However, other European countries have resettled more refugees relative to their populations, as well as more asylum seekers.


text: Government spending on flood defences until 2021 has heavily favoured London and the South East.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/flood-defence-spending/
review_date: 2019-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
We don’t know if there’s a north/south divide in flood defence spending because the data was taken offline - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There isn’t enough data available to prove this, and previous estimates  don’t clearly show this divide. Figures from the Environment Agency that could have helped shed light seem to have been taken offline.


text: Childhood diabetes in England and Wales is up 40% in four years.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/childhood-type-2-diabetes-40/
title: Is childhood type 2 diabetes up 40%? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is in the right ball park. Data from both the NHS and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health show this scale of increase across similar time periods.


text: The money in the new discharge fund is already “making a difference on the ground”.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-hospital-discharge-numbers/
title: Do Rishi Sunak’s claims about hospital discharge funding stack up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The DHSC says it has “early data” showing funding started being used to discharge patients more quickly in December. But we’ve not seen specific data evaluating the impact of the fund and health policy experts say little information is available yet about what effect the funding has had or whether discharge figures have improved.


text: Nicola Sturgeon is keeping the lockdown.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/scotland-england-fatality-rates/
title: Be wary of social media posts comparing fatality rates in confirmed Covid-19 cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were some slight changes to the lockdown rules from Monday 11 May but they remained much the same as before. They have since been relaxed further to allow meetings of people from two households.


text: The number of unlawfully large infant classes has fallen.
claimant: Department of Education spokesman
claim_date: 2015-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/number-unlawfully-large-infant-classes-falling/
title: Is the number of unlawfully large infant classes falling? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is accurate, but taking into account large infant classes counted as lawful (because of the circumstances in which extra pupils were admitted) the number that are large is growing.


text: The USA is the largest investor in the UK economy.
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. US-based companies invested around £350 billion in the UK in 2017. That made it the top investor in the country.


text: A UK government document is circulating promoting mandatory Covid-19 vaccination.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-plans/
title: The government is not proposing to make a Covid-19 vaccine mandatory - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Evidence submitted to a parliamentary committee by four academics argues that the government may want to consider making a Covid-19 vaccine mandatory. This is not being proposed by the government.


text: 40% of all day-to-day spending by the State now goes to the health sector
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2021-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-spending-40-percent/
title: Health doesn’t account for 40% of day-to-day public spending - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No it doesn’t. This year, day-to-day spending on health is forecast to account for about 23% of all day-to-day public spending by the UK government.


text: Labour is pushing Theresa May for the UK to have access to the Single Market after Brexit.
claimant: Lisa Nandy
claim_date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/labour-customs-union-single-market/
title: What is Labour’s policy on the customs union and single market? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Labour says it wants to be outside of the single market after Brexit, but has tabled amendments calling on the government to seek “full access to the internal market of the European Union”. Labour suggests the issue of free movement would have to be negotiated in this scenario. It’s hard to judge how feasible this would be as a negotiating position, but it seems to fall foul of the EU’s red lines.


claimant: Tom Blenkinsop
claim_date: 2014-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/factcheck-how-nurse-numbers-can-be-well-down/
title: Factcheck: How nurse numbers can be up as well as down - Full Fact
review_date: 2014-12-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: It depends who you count, how you count them, and what time period you count from.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Prime Minister says the number of nurses is up by 3,000 since the last election, while a Labour MP says it's down by 2,500.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2020-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/prosecutions-deaths-police-custody/
review_date: 2020-07-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The last time a police officer was successfully prosecuted in the UK concerning the death of somebody in custody was in 1969.

title:
We know of one successful conviction of a police officer for the killing of someone in police custody since 1971 - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is at least one more recent case of a successful prosecution: a police sergeant was convicted of manslaughter in 1986. There have also been successful prosecutions for offences other than manslaughter and homicide.


text: There are 825 fewer full-time GPs than in 2019.
claimant: Nighat Arif
claim_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-workforce-appointments/
title: Four claims about GP numbers fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is based on the number of FTE fully qualified GPs in England (ie, excluding trainees), which fell by 823 between December 2019 and March 2023. The total number of GPs including trainees is up over the same period.


text: There are 23,000 Syrian refugees coming to the UK.
claimant: Brandon Lewis
claim_date: 2018-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/syrian-refugees-uk/
title: Two UK schemes have resettled 11,000 Syrian refugees - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s a target for 2020, based on two government resettlement schemes. Of that target, 20,000 are specifically from the Syrian conflict. These schemes aren’t the only way for refugees to enter the UK.


text: Boris Johnson has said that climate change is a primitive fear without foundation.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2020-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/Johnson-climate-change/
title: Corbyn claim about Boris Johnson’s climate change scepticism needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Johnson did not say that climate change in general is a primitive fear without foundation, but has expressed views sceptical of the scale of the human impact on the climate.


text: Police are appealing to find the mother of a newborn baby boy that has been abandoned in Walsall.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/abandoned-baby-walsall-no-police-appeal/
title: Police appeal for mother of abandoned abandoned baby in Walsall is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
West Midlands Police has confirmed it has not received reports of an abandoned newborn boy in Walsall or issued this appeal.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-letter-ukrainian-refugees-details/
title: Letter telling male Ukrainian refugees in UK to visit embassy is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The letter is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A letter has been sent from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to hosts of Ukrainian refugees asking for the personal details of any adult male Ukrainians living with them and saying those individuals need to report to the Ukrainian embassy.


text: Over 500 churches have been closed 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:
This is an estimate for the number of churches converted into homes between 2001 and 2006, so doesn’t tell us how many churches have closed in recent years.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-fake-press-release-internet-banned/
title: French government has not restricted internet access to neighbourhoods in France - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
France’s Interior Ministry wrote a press release informing the public that internet access would be restricted at night in certain neighbourhoods from 3 July.

textual_rating:
The press release is fake. The Interior Ministry confirmed that the document is not genuine and that no such decision has been made.


text: Someone who found a dog injured in a hit and run in Bexleyheath is looking for its owner.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-dog-bexleyheath-found-in-2018/
title: Appeal for dog ‘found’ in Bexleyheath is not real - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a real appeal. The images used are of an injured dog that was rescued by a woman on a mountain in Wyoming, US, in 2018.


claimant: Kate Green
claim_date: 2020-10-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/october-2020-poverty-rates/
title: How poverty rates are cherry-picked to score political points - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In 2010-11, there were 3.5 million children living in relative poverty. Today, the figure after housing costs is 4.2 million.

textual_rating:
Broadly correct. In 2010/11 the figure was 3.6 million (27% of children), and in 2018/19 it was 4.2 million (30% of children).However, if you measured from 2009/10, when the proportion was also 30%, there would be no change.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/mersey-foi-deaths/
title: Mersey Care has only had five Covid-19 deaths because it is not an acute trust - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust have had five deaths related to Covid-19 and all patients that passed away had pre-existing conditions.

textual_rating:
This is true, but Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, addiction, learning disability and community health services, so is not expected to treat those seriously ill with Covid-19.


text: The Universal Credit helpline costs 55p per minute.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-does-universal-credit-helpline-cost/
title: How much does the Universal Credit helpline cost? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was roughly the maximum amount someone could be charged for a call from their mobile. The government has now announced that the helpline will be made a freephone number.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mhra-vaccine-deaths/
review_date: 2022-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK has recorded five times more deaths “due to” the Covid-19 vaccines than all other vaccines over the past five years

title:
Claims Covid-19 vaccines have led to five times more deaths than other vaccines are based on false assumptions - Full Fact

textual_rating:
These refer to the number of deaths reported after vaccination though may not have been due to vaccination.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-Alton-Towers-giveaway/
review_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Every Facebook user who shares and comments on a post in 48 hours will get eight free passes for Alton Towers theme park.

title:
Facebook page offering free passes for Alton Towers is not associated with the theme park - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Alton Towers has confirmed that the account posting the offer is not associated with them and that they are not collaborating on this offer.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-04-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/oyster-card-voter-id/
title: Why can you use the 60+ Oyster card as voter ID, but not the 18+ Student Oyster card? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The 60+ Oyster card counts as voter ID, but the 18+ Student Oyster card doesn’t, and this amounts to “voter suppression” or “election rigging”.

textual_rating:
The two cards are treated differently because they have different application requirements—the 60+ Oyster card requires proof of age and address, while the 18+ Student Oyster card doesn’t. The government has also said the 60+ Oyster card is valid despite having lower security than major forms of ID to “cater to” demographics less likely to have other ID. Some research suggests those aged 70+ are slightly less likely to have photo ID than those aged 18-29.


text: Under the Labour party 1.4 million people spent most of the last decade on out-of-work benefits.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/were-14-million-stuck-out-work-benefits-under-labour/
title: Were 1.4 million stuck on out-of-work benefits under Labour? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
According to 2010 research by the Department for Work and Pensions, 1.4 million people were on out of work benefits in nine of the last ten years.


text: Theresa May u-turned on a pre-election promise to cap energy bills.
claimant: Wear Red
claim_date: 2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/government-hasnt-u-turned-energy-price-caps/
title: The government hasn’t u-turned on energy price caps - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The government did introduce a bill that would allow for energy price caps as promised. At the moment it’s progressing through parliament.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/caravan-giveaway-fake-facebook/
title: Caravan shared hundreds of times on Facebook isn’t part of any giveaway - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The caravan pictured is not part of any giveaway, and is still available for sale.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Due to another competition winner not registering correctly, a free caravan is still available to win by someone who comments on and shares a social media post.


url: https://fullfact.org/health/ons-2020-covid-first-quarter-deaths/
title: Viral Facebook post is wrong on deaths in first three months of 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The total number of deaths in the first three months of 2020 is lower than in any of the previous five years.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. This is based on data that stops a week short. The real total is higher than it was in 2016 or 2019.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2021-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Expose-vaccine-death-false/
title: No evidence linking deaths among children to vaccine rollout - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Deaths among children between September to October may have been caused by myocarditis or pericarditis (inflammatory heart conditions which have been reported as a side effect of vaccination).

textual_rating:
There is no evidence of this. The MHRA says it has not identified an increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis among under 18s. Incidences of myocarditis and pericarditis have been rare and “typically mild”.


text: There are plans for an EU army.
claimant: Nick Clegg
claim_date: 2014-04-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/hunt-eu-army/
title: The hunt for an EU army - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
EU member countries work together on military matters, but the EU doesn't have its own military capabilities. At least a few European politicians do support the creation of an EU army, but that would need unanimous approval.


text: Antibiotics should be used to fight Covid-19.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-04-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/thrombosis-covid-19/
title: This post about Covid-19 and blood clotting conditions contains inaccuracies - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Antibiotics are not recommended in patients with Covid-19. Covid-19 is caused by a virus and antibiotics are used to prevent or treat bacterial infections.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-10-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bill-gates-daughter-phoebe-vaccianted/
title: Bill Gates’s daughter Phoebe Gates did have childhood vaccinations - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Phoebe Gates, daughter of Bill Gates, has not been vaccinated, and hasn’t had her childhood vaccines.

textual_rating:
Melinda Gates has said that all three of her children had their childhood vaccines. Phoebe Gates’ attendance at both her sister’s wedding and Stanford University imply she has also had the Covid-19 vaccine.


claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2022-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/keir-starmer-wrong-to-suggest-taxes-arent-rising-on-stocks-and-shares/
title: Keir Starmer wrong to suggest taxes aren’t rising on stocks and shares - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Dividend tax is increasing in line with National Insurance.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People earning money from stocks and shares won’t pay a penny more in tax as a result of the government’s policy changes.


text: The Coalition's original debt target has been met.
claimant: George Osborne
claim_date: 2015-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/why-net-debt-falling-share-gdp/
title: Why is net debt falling as a share of GDP? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-03-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It has, but the IFS says this is "not a genuine reduction in government indebtedness". The fall in 2015/16 is only because the government is selling assts.


text: Jeremy Corbyn will cost every British worker £2,400 per year.
claimant: The Conservatives
claim_date: 2019-11-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/cost-of-corbyn-figure-flawed/
title: Another flawed “cost of Corbyn” figure from the Conservatives - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is largely meaningless as the calculations and assumptions behind it have a number of flaws.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wetherspoons-tim-martin-meal-deal/
title: Wetherspoons ‘meal for two’ deal is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Everyone who shares or comments on a Facebook post shared by the Wetherspoons account is entitled to a free meal for two to celebrate the retirement of the chain’s boss.

textual_rating:
Wetherspoons have confirmed that this offer is fake. The pub chain doesn’t have any official social media accounts.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2015-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/postal-hoax-phone/
title: Warning over alleged Christmas postal ‘scam’ is long out of date - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An alleged postal scam involving a premium-rate phone number which could cost £315 to call is taking place this Christmas.

textual_rating:
Warnings about this premium-rate number have been around since 2005, and it was shut down in December of that year.


claimant: Robert Peston
claim_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/peston-number-one-concern/
title: Peston claim that immigration is top public concern based on his own findings - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The single issue that voters in this country care about is immigration, and this issue of migrants trying to get here is at the top of voters’ concerns.

textual_rating:
This is not mentioned as the top concern facing this country in the most recent Ipsos MORI or YouGov polls.


text: The average length of time for staying in hospital has virtually halved since the year 2000.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/number-hospital-beds-falling/
title: Who's cutting hospital bed numbers? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It hasn’t quite halved but it has fallen. The average length of stay overnight was eight days in 2000 and is about five days now.


text: 330,000 people a day are being tested for Covid-19 under the Test and Trace programme.
claimant: Nick Gibb
claim_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nick-gibb-330000/
title: We do not test 330,000 people a day for Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The real number, in England, is around 52,000. It will be slightly higher for the whole UK and if antibody and surveillance tests are included.


text: The official UK death toll from the coronavirus pandemic now equals the death toll from the Blitz.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/deaths-coronavirus-blitz/
title: More people have probably been killed by coronavirus than were killed during the Blitz - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
At the time this claim was made, the government’s “official” published count of Covid-19 deaths was slightly under the number of deaths during the Blitz, although the numbers are very similar. The true number of deaths related to Covid-19 is likely to be higher than the toll during the Blitz.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/priest-islamic-race-riot-saint-etienne/
review_date: 2023-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An 80-year-old French priest, Father Francis Pelle, was stripped, beaten and left fighting for his life after an attempted lynching by Islamic race rioters in Saint-Étienne.

title:
Diocese says attack on French priest was not because of his faith or to do with recent unrest - Full Fact

textual_rating:
According to the Diocese of Saint-Étienne, priest Father Francis Palle was attacked and robbed, but did not lose consciousness. The diocese said the attack did not appear to be linked to him being a priest and that it “did not take place within the framework of the violent events of recent days”.


text: MPs get free housing.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-free-housing-alcohol/
title: What can MPs claim on expenses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs can claim for rent or hotel accommodation as well as expenses for a second home if they are not already receiving rent free London accommodation through any ministerial post, and provided that their constituency is outside London.


claimant: John Simpson
claim_date: 2019-03-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/climate-change-school-curriculum/
title: Setting the record straight on climate change in the school curriculum - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Four Oxford schoolgirls have started a petition to make lessons on climate change compulsory in schools.

textual_rating:
The students’ petition recognises that climate change is already part of the science and geography curriculum in England. But they say that they have “barely learned about” it at school and want climate change to be a “core part” of the national curriculum.


text: Social media users could win a luxury motorhome in exchange for sharing and liking a Facebook post.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-motorhome-competition-facebook-arizona/
title: Thousands share fake Facebook motorhome competition - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is a genuine giveaway. It is still listed for sale for more than $500,000 by a dealership in the US, and the dealership has confirmed it is not involved in any online competition The post is very similar to other fake giveaways we have checked in the past.


text: John Major prorogued parliament in 1997 to delay a report into Conservative MPs taking bribes.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/john-major-proroguing/
title: John Major did prorogue parliament for three weeks in 1997 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Major’s prorogation in 1997 had the effect of delaying a report into Conservative MPs taking bribes until after the 1997 election, whether or not that was his intention.


text: There have been 2 million apprenticeships created over the past six years, with more planned.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2015-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/apprenticeship-funding-going-or-down/
title: Apprenticeship funding: going up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There have been 2.5 million apprenticeships started since 2010. The government aims to create 3 million apprenticeships by 2020.


text: The number of vegans in the UK has risen from half a million in 2016 to 3.5 million today.
claimant: Isabella Tree
claim_date: 2018-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vegans-uk/
title: Are there 3.5 million vegans in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
3.5 million is almost certainly too high. The phrasing of the survey it’s based on means it could include people who were previously vegan but no longer are. The best available research we know of (from 2016) estimated 540,000 adults in Britain are vegan.


text: Punishment for breaking lockdown is harsher than for possessing images of child abuse.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/group-fine-vs-indecent-image-punishment/
review_date: 2020-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Punishment for breaking social distancing and possessing indecent images of children can vary - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Sentencing for both crimes varies greatly. The fine cited for breaking lockdown (£3,400) is roughly correct after numerous breaches, and punishment for possession of indecent images of children can vary depending on the exact offence.


text: Following pandemic school closures 100,000 children have disappeared off school rolls.
claimant: Bob Seely
claim_date: 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/bob-seely-ghost-kids/
review_date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
No evidence for MP’s claim 100,000 ‘ghost kids’ disappeared from school rolls in pandemic - Full Fact

textual_rating:
While the rate of severe absence in schools has increased significantly compared to pre-pandemic levels, this figure does not tell us anything about the number of pupils who left school during the pandemic and never returned. The figure is based on the number of children in England who missed at least half of their sessions in Autumn 2020.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/petrol-saving-fuel-tips-money/
title: Popular tips on filling cars with petrol don’t offer big savings - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Refilling your tank when it reaches half-full will reduce the amount of petrol which evaporates within the tank.

textual_rating:
Fuel tanks are sealed systems which means that the amount of fuel within a tank shouldn’t affect the amount which evaporates. Regardless, filling up more regularly would require more trips to fill up, which would need to be balanced against any claimed benefit.


text: Income inequality is falling.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/income-inequality-falling/
title: Is income inequality falling? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The latest (pre-pandemic) official figures show it was rising or broadly stable. Recent analysis suggests it fell during the pandemic but is rising again following the removal of income support.


text: A video claims there is a space in instant noodle cups.
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:
This space is designed by manufacturers to assist with the transportation and cooking of the noodles.


claimant: Sunday Times
claim_date: 2020-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/home-office-unskilled-migrants/
title: Unpublished Home Office target needs explaining - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Home Office figures suggest new immigration rules will mean a reduction in unskilled EU migration of 90,000.

textual_rating:
The number of unskilled EU migrants coming to work in the UK is already less than 90,000, so the government cannot cut it by 90,000 with changes to immigration rules.


text: NHS Test and Trace cost £22 billion in just a few months.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/test-trace-tunnel/
title: We can’t say if Test and Trace has cost more than the Channel Tunnel—yet - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not quite right. £22 billion is the budget allocated by the government for the first year of Test and Trace. £4 billion was spent up to the end of October. We don’t yet know how much the whole first year will cost.


text: There is no evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines saved a single life.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-saved-many-lives/
title: The Covid-19 vaccines saved many lives - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research by the UKHSA and Cambridge University suggests that the Covid-19 vaccines saved more than 100,000 lives in England alone.


text: ‘Illegal immigrants’ are given £175 per week on a prepaid Aspen card.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/aspen-cards-175/
title: Asylum seekers do not get £175 per week on a prepaid card - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Destitute asylum seekers waiting for an asylum decision are eligible for £40.85 per week per person on a prepaid Aspen card, not £175 per week. There are some small additional amounts available for young children and pregnant women.


text: 500 people who share and comment on a post can be in with a chance of winning a £750 M&S voucher.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/marks-and-spencer-vouchers-fake-giveaway/
title: M&S is not giving away ‘golden envelopes’ with £750 vouchers on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The competition is not genuine, and the images are of M&S ‘golden tickets’ given out to the first shoppers in new M&S shops.


claimant: TrialSite News
claim_date: 2021-12-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/CDC-PCR-Tests-trial-news/
title: The CDC has not ‘dropped’ all PCR tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The ‘CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel’ cannot differentiate between Covid-19 and flu.

textual_rating:
This test can only detect SARS-CoV-2. It will not confuse Covid-19 and flu, and can ‘differentiate’ between them. But it cannot test for both at the same time.


claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2020-01-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/private-members-bill-referendums/
title: A Bill to change referendum rules came from one Lord, not the government - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservatives are planning to pass a Bill setting the threshold at which a referendum could pass. This would be 55% turnout, 60% in favour and two thirds of MPs agreeing to the referendum in the first place.

textual_rating:
Such a Bill has been proposed, but not by the Conservative party officially or by the government. It was put forward as a Private Members’ Bill by a Conservative member of the House of Lords and has not yet been debated.


text: The NHS needs 4 billion a year, but it’s getting 1.6 billion and that figures is set to decrease.
claimant: Gina Miller
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:
Experts have previously said that NHS England needed £4 billion in 2018/19. In the Autumn budget 2017 the government announced that it will receive £1.6 billion, or £1.9 billion if capital spending is included.


text: 87 people are dying a day waiting for care.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/deaths-waiting-social-care-requests/
title: It’s not certain that 87 people a day are dying waiting for care - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
NHS data shows the equivalent of 88 requests a day for social care support from councils in England did not reach a conclusion as the requester died. There are a number of limitations to this data so we can’t be sure how true this figure is.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-saharan-dust/
title: Saharan dust, not ‘chemtrails’, responsible for substance left behind by rain in Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A substance came down in the rain from the chemtrails that planes are leaving, and this is what they say is condensation.

textual_rating:
The substance is not from chemtrails, which do not exist, but is instead likely dust from the Sahara deposited by rainfall.


text: More people are eligible for support under PIP than DLA.
claimant: Damian Green
claim_date: 2017-07-12T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2017-07-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/are-people-mental-health-conditions-now-receiving-higher-disability-benefit-payments/

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

textual_rating:
It’s unlikely. PIP was designed so that fewer people would be eligible than would be the case under DLA. A quarter of people claiming DLA for mental health conditions did not qualify for PIP when reassessed.


text: Captain Tom and his charity walk has raised 15.5 million with over 750,000 people donating.
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:
The fundraiser was at around £15 million on 16 April. It is now at over £31 million. This doesn’t include Gift Aid.


text: The UK has taken in only 216 Syrian refugees.
claimant: George Eaton, New Statesman Political Editor
claim_date: 2015-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/has-uk-only-taken-216-syrian-refugees/
title: Has the UK only taken in 216 Syrian refugees? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK has taken in around 5,000 Syrian refugees. The 216 figure refers to an additional number resettled from around Syria under one particular scheme.


text: The EU is demanding that the UK pays a £39 billion divorce bill.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/no-deal-brexit-costs/
title: Claims that a no deal Brexit “will cost us nothing” are incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was jointly agreed by the UK and the EU. It covers the UK’s outstanding financial commitments and liabilities to the EU.


text: The ONS has admitted only 6,183 people died of Covid-19.
claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/6183-covid-deaths-ons-expose/
title: The ONS has not said only 6,183 people have died of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This figure is the number of people in England and Wales who, up to the end of 2021, died of Covid-19 where only Covid-19 was listed on their death certificate. In most cases Covid-19 will lead to another disease or condition before death.


text: 14 million people are in poverty, which is a record high.
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, 14 million people were in poverty according to one definition. This was a fall on the previous year in terms of the number of people and percentage of the population.


text: Through the Energy Price Guarantee, the maximum people will pay for energy will be £2,500.
claimant: Liz Truss
claim_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/liz-truss-energy-price-cap-2500/
title: Liz Truss wrong to repeatedly say energy bills are capped at £2,500 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. This figure is based on the amount a “typical” household will pay, based on average energy usage, but it is not a cap on the total cost of bills.


text: As Mayor, Sadiq Khan produced a report to say that the Fire Services did not need further funding.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Grenfell-Tower-Labour/
title: Most of these claims about Grenfell Tower are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. In 2016 a report commissioned by Mayor Khan recommended that the London Fire Brigade did not need its budget increased.


text: Lipid nanoparticles used to deliver the mRNA vaccine attack the heart.
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
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. Nanoparticles, which protect the delivery of mRNA vaccines, break down in circulation.


text: The 2021 Budget reduced day-to-day health and social care spending by £30 billion.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2021-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/has-the-nhs-had-its-budget-reduced-by-30-billion/
title: Has the NHS had its budget reduced by £30 billion? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The NHS and the Department of Health will receive less Covid-19 specific funding in 2021 but its core budgets will increase.


text: Useless PPE purchased by the government cost £8.7 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:
£8.7 billion refers to the loss in value of PPE bought in 2020/21 at the end of that financial year. While some is arguably useless, most of it (£4.7 billion) is loss associated with buying usable PPE at high prices during the early stages of the pandemic.


text: Theresa May paid around £2,400 to “MP Services” on a regular basis.
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:
Expenses of between £500 and £3,000 were claimed by Mrs May for payments to a company called MP Services between 2005 and 2007. The payments are usually for the printing of annual reports, newsletters, and outdoor banners.


text: Boris Johnson refused 50,000 ventilators offered by the EU.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/50-thousand-ventilators/
title: No, the UK didn’t turn down 50,000 ventilators offered by the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The UK did not join an EU scheme to stockpile medical equipment, but this is not the same as turning down 50,000 ventilators.The total budget of the scheme wouldn’t have covered this many ventilators.


text: Business investment is down 20% since Brexit.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2022-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/post-Brexit-business-investment/
title: Real terms business investment has not fallen by 20% since Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure refers to how real terms business investment compares with its pre-referendum trend. Business investment has fallen by 6% in real terms since 2016.


text: Almost 100% of Scotland’s entire electricity production comes from renewables.
claimant: Ian Blackford
claim_date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/snp-sturgeon-blackford-swinney-renewable-energy/
title: Senior SNP politicians mislead on renewable energy generation - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. In 2020, 62% of the electricity produced in Scotland came from renewable sources. A further 26% came from low-carbon sources (mainly nuclear), and 11% from fossil fuels.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/false-gladys-berejiklian-pfizer-vaccine-bribery/
title: No evidence New South Wales Premier resigned over bribes from Pfizer or AstraZeneca - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Former New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has resigned after accepting $65m in bribes from AstraZeneca and Pfizer.

textual_rating:
While Ms Berejiklian has resigned following a corruption probe, it has nothing to do with bribes from Pfizer or AstraZeneca.

There is no evidence of bribery from either company.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Cillian-Murphy-prince-Harry-Irish-British/
title: Viral video doesn’t show Cillian Murphy correcting Prince Harry about being Irish - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows actor Cillian Murphy correct Prince Harry about his nationality being Irish, not British.

textual_rating:
This is not a genuine exchange between the two individuals. The video has been edited to include old audio of a real conversation between the actor and an interviewer in 2010 dubbed over a clip of a different event.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Warnborough-council-metal-pole/
title: Metal pole badly mounted in pavement was not the work of ‘Warnborough Council’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows the recent work of ‘Warnborough Council’ where a metal pole has been incorrectly screwed onto the pavement.

textual_rating:
Warnborough Council does not exist and the photo has been shared online and in the US since August 2022. Hampshire County Council, who are responsible for maintenance in the Warnborough area, said that this does not relate to their equipment.


text: A photo shows Fidel Castro holding a baby Justin Trudeau.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fidel-castro-not-justin-trudeau/
title: This picture does not show Fidel Castro holding Justin Trudeau as a baby - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The baby in the picture is Michel Trudeau, the PM’s late brother. The photo was taken on 1976 trip to Cuba, when Justin Trudeau would have been four.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chester-zoo-fake-giveaway/
title: Chester Zoo is not offering a giveaway through ‘Chester Wildlife Park’ Facebook profile - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The official Chester Zoo Facebook page has confirmed that this is not a genuine offer.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Chester Zoo is offering a prize giveaway on Facebook, shared by a page called ‘The Chester Wildlife Park’.


claimant: David Warburton MP
claim_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-claims-david-warburton/
title: Several coronavirus claims made by MP in newspaper are inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Even when including those with pre-existing conditions, for the under 60s there is a 1 in 300,000 chance of death, for the over 60s there is a 99% survival rate and for the over 80s it’s still 90%.

textual_rating:
The death rate given for under 60s is definitely far too low. The survival rate for over-60s appears to be too high, while the survival rate for the over 80s is more plausible. It is impossible to calculate a true death rate because we do not know how many people have been infected.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/human-rights-law-means-police-warnings-people-risk-being-killed/
title: Human rights law means police warnings for people at risk of being killed - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A decision of the European Court of Human Rights means that the police have to warn criminals about serious threats to their life.

textual_rating:
‘Threat to life warnings’ are a police response to the human rights court’s requirement that the state sometimes has to be proactive in protecting people from threats. That decision dates from 1998, and wasn’t about criminals in particular.


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
textual_rating: Official Public Health England advice does not recommend any of these things.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
To minimise the risk of catching the new coronavirus, you should use public transport only when necessary, avoid kissing and shaking hands, and make visitors wash their hands as soon as they enter your house.

title:
We fact checked claims about avoiding social contact and how you wash clothes in the face of the new coronavirus - Full Fact


text: The EU puts a 30% tariff on cocoa from Africa.
claimant: World for Brexit
claim_date: 2019-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/cocoa-tariff/
title: The EU doesn’t have a 30% tariff on African cocoa imports - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The maximum tariff on processed cocoa is 9.6%. The vast majority of African countries can export all cocoa products to the EU tariff-free due to various schemes they’re part of.


text: Rail fares are out of control.
claimant: Shami Chakrabarti
claim_date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-rail-fares-out-control/
title: Are rail fares out of control? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The average rail fare in Britain has increased by 20% in real terms since 1995, though it dropped by 1%, factoring in inflation, between 2017 and 2018.


text: 125,000 care home staff 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:
The Department for Health and Social Care has confirmed 125,000 staff in care settings have been tested since the start of the pandemic.


text: The UK is best at cycling, rowing and track and field.
claimant: Janan Ganesh
claim_date: 2016-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/olympic-games-factchecked/
title: The Olympic Games, factchecked - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Over a quarter of all UK Olympic medals have been for athletics. The other sports UK athletes have won most medals in are rowing, sailing, cycling and swimming.


text: Britain will be forced to join an EU army unless we leave the EU.
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:
Incorrect. The UK has a veto on EU military policy so couldn’t be forced to participate in an EU army.


text: Not one politician has lost a penny.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/31m-lose-jobs/
title: This viral UK Facebook post claiming 31 million job losses probably refers to the USA - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not possible to analyse the financial situation of every MP. However, it is correct that UK MPs have not taken any pay cuts during the pandemic.


claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2022-12-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/climate-change-covid-vaccines/
title: Instagram post misrepresents study linking climate change and diseases - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Research reported in the Daily Mail links migraines, strokes and dementia rates to climate change, but increases are actually explained by harm from Covid-19 vaccines.

textual_rating:
The research almost entirely focuses on data from before the Covid vaccines were produced. The vaccines can cause strokes in rare cases, though less often than infection itself. The vaccines are generally safe and are not associated with dementia or long-term migraine disorders.


text: Six council homes were built under Labour in Scotland.
claimant: Scottish National Party
claim_date: 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/social-renting-scotland/
title: The state of social renting in Scotland - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This reflects a single year under the Labour-Lib Dem coalition in Scotland. Almost all social housing new-builds (several thousand each year) were started by housing associations during that time.


text: More than one million people are not receiving the social care they need.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-one-million-people-without-social-care/
title: Are one million people without social care? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The research behind this isn’t published yet, so we can’t say how accurate it is. Age UK has previously produced similar estimates, based on asking people whether they need help with at least one daily task every time they need it.


text: A 5G mast next to a school was removed after four young elementary school students develop cancer.
claimant: YouTube user
claim_date: 2019-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/5G-tower-school-cancer/
title: A mobile phone mast was relocated due to local concerns about school cancer cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A mobile phone mast was removed from the grounds of an elementary school following local concern over several cases of cancer. However, there is no evidence linking the cancers to the mast. The mast did not use 5G technology.


text: UK carbon dioxide emissions have fallen 42% since 1990.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-economic-growth/
title: Boris Johnson gets his numbers muddled on economic growth - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Broadly correct. UK carbon dioxide emissions fell 39% between 1990 and 2018, though this data isn’t perfect and may overstate the fall.


text: Four million children live below the poverty line.
claimant: David Hayman
claim_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/young-people-poverty/
title: Are four million children living in poverty? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for relative poverty in the UK, measured after housing costs in 2015/16. It’s a smaller number using other measures of poverty.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-family-pet/
title: Fake missing child post uses photo of boy witnessing family pet being put down - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows an autistic boy called Brandon Smith who has been missing for eight hours with the family dog Hank.

textual_rating:
This is a hoax. The image has been taken from a Facebook post shared by a woman in the US talking about her son’s reaction to their family dog being put down.


text: A video shows Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria in 2015, beheading someone.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Syria-video-is-not-shamima-begum/
title: This video does not show Shamima Begum beheading someone in Syria - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video is not of Ms Begum. The rest of the video shows that it’s a different and much younger person.


claimant: Grahame Morris
claim_date: 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-people-die-fires/
title: How many people die in fires? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There were 334 fire deaths in England (including 71 at Grenfell). This is the worst year for fire deaths since 2010/11.

textual_rating:
There were 334 fire-related fatalities in England, including 71 the Home Office counts as occurring as a result of Grenfell Tower fire. The last time this was higher was 2010/11 when there were 335 deaths.


text: Green levies make up 25% of our energy costs.
claimant: Robert Halfon
claim_date: 2022-05-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/green-levies/
title: Green levy costs do not make up 25% of energy bills - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is inaccurate. Green levies represent a proportion of environmental and social obligation costs, which account for less than 8% of an average energy bill’s costs under the current price cap. They did make up 25% of the 2021 average electricity bill.


claimant: Greg Clark
claim_date: 2017-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/productivity-germany/
title: Productivity: are we keeping up with Germany? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
It takes people in Germany four days to produce what people in the UK take five days to produce. This means they need to work fewer hours.

textual_rating:
Correct. On average, German workers took around four hours to produce what UK workers did in five hours in 2016. Workers in the UK work longer days on average than German workers, so overall UK workers were 8.5% less productive than German workers in 2016.


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 studies into Covid-19 vaccines are too short to see if there are late effects. There were narcolepsy cases after the swine flu vaccination, and similarly this vaccine could put millions at risk.

textual_rating:
It’s true that the swine flu vaccine was associated with a small increase in the risk of narcolepsy in children and young people. But the vaccine’s effects will continue to be monitored as it is rolled out, and so far it is not being given to children.


text: Police engagement with communities isn’t happening.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/police-budgets-numbers-and-community-policing/
title: Police budgets, numbers and community policing - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s evidence from the police watchdog that the capacity for crime prevention work has been declining but also evidence that it improved last year. The number of PCSOs decreased by 40% between March 2010 and March 2017.


claimant: Patrick Basham
claim_date: 2020-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/express-trump-election-voter-fraud/
review_date: 2020-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
It defies logic that Joe Biden secured more votes that Barack Obama. If only valid votes are counted, Donald Trump and Joe Biden share the popular vote.

title:
Express opinion piece wrong to allege evidence of widespread voter fraud in US elections - Full Fact

textual_rating:
It is logical that Mr Biden received so many votes because turnout was relatively high. There is no evidence of widespread invalid votes. There is no evidence that Mr Trump and Mr Biden received the same popular vote. Mr Biden currently leads by around 4.5 million.


text: 19.2 million people declined the first Covid-19 vaccine in the UK.
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 an overestimate. It includes many children who were not offered the vaccine, and assumes a much higher UK population than exists in reality.


text: There are now more NHS dentists across the UK.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-nhs-dentist-numbers/
title: Are more dentists now working in the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true there were more dentists doing some NHS work in 2021/22 than in the previous year. However it’s unclear how the number of whole-time equivalent NHS dentists has changed, and the total number of NHS dentists is lower than before the pandemic.


text: 90% of people in hospital with Covid-19 are unvaccinated.
claimant: dr hilary jones
claim_date: 2021-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/dr-hilary-lorraine-kelly-90-percent/
title: Lorraine Kelly and her guests were wrong about Covid-19 patients - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. The true figure is more like 36%. However there are signs that unvaccinated people are the majority in intensive care.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2014-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/facebook-post-about-poppy-graffiti-mosque-misleading/
title: Facebook post about poppy graffiti on mosque is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The two men sent to prison also admitted to a number of other racially motivated offences.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Two men were sent to prison for defacing a mosque with a poppy, while two others only received fines for burning poppies and defacing a memorial.


text: Death is listed as a side effect of the MMR vaccine.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/measles-vaccine-adverse-reactions/
title: Measles is not the “number one side effect” of the MMR vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The US MMR vaccine package insert, under “adverse reactions”, says death from various and sometimes unknown causes has been reported after vaccination but a causal relationship hasn’t been found in healthy individuals. Death isn’t listed under adverse reactions on either MMR vaccine used in the UK.


text: Keir Starmer took the government to court in 2003.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-court-illegal-immigrants/
title: Keir Starmer 2003 court case is not the reason asylum seekers get support - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Six asylum seekers took the government to court in 2003. Mr Starmer was the barrister representing five of these people, and did not initiate or bring the legal action himself.


text: In the last eight years, spending cuts led to the closure of children’s centres.
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:
The number of children’s centres in England has fallen by around 500 from 2010 to 2017, and the number of Sure Start centres has fallen by around 1,200. Funding for Sure Start in England fell by 50% in real terms from 2010/11 to 2016/17.


text: Israel, Singapore, India, Hong Kong and the U.S. trade with the EU under WTO terms.
claimant: James Delingpole
claim_date: 2019-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/who-trades-eu-under-wto-rules/
title: Who trades with the EU under WTO rules? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Israel has a trade agreement with the EU. Also, while Singapore currently trades with the EU under WTO terms, it has reached a trade agreement with the EU that now needs approval by the European Parliament and Council.


text: The Lisbon treaty calls for EU member nations to be part of the euro by 2020.
claimant: UKIP
claim_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-wont-have-adopt-euro-2020/
title: The UK won’t have to adopt the Euro by 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect.  The treaty aims for the euro becoming the currency of all member states of the Union but it isn’t time limited and the UK has an explicit opt-out.


text: The UK unemployment rate is about half the Eurozone average.
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. The UK rate is 4.4% compared to the Eurozone average of 9.1%, using the latest comparable figures for April to June 2017. Some countries like Germany still have lower rates.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-illegal-immigrants-refugees-benefits/
title: ‘Illegal immigrants’ are not entitled to more benefits than pensioners - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
British pensioners are only entitled to £6,000 a year in benefits, while illegal immigrants and refugees are entitled to £29,900 a year.

textual_rating:
These figures aren’t right. Pensioners who have paid national insurance throughout their working lives are entitled to much more than £6,000 a year. Illegal immigrants are not entitled to any benefits, though asylum seekers do get limited financial support. Refugees are entitled to benefits on the same basis as UK nationals but are unlikely to get £29,900 due to the benefits cap.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/bank-of-england-65-billion-gilts-mini-budget/
title: The Bank of England hasn’t already spent £65 billion following mini-Budget - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Bank of England has spent £65 billion on purchases of long-dated UK government bonds as a result of the government’s mini-Budget.

textual_rating:
The Bank of England announced on 28 September that it was prepared to spend up to £65 billion on long-dated UK government bonds over the course of 13 days, amounting to £5 billion each day. At the time of writing it has spent around £3.7 billion over five days.


text: The risk of dying after a Covid vaccination is 1 in 31,000.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/risk-children-death-covid/
title: The risk of dying from a Covid vaccine is lower than 1 in 31,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. It is unclear where this figure comes from, but it is far too high. In the UK, around 50 deaths have been possibly linked to one of the vaccines, an incidence of 1 in 470,000.


text: The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has told nurses not to use the term “ladies” or “lady.”
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/royal-college-nursing/
title: The Royal College of Nursing hasn’t told nurses to call women by gender-neutral terms - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The RCN internal style guide recommended using “women” or “woman” instead of “ladies” or “lady” in written documentation.  This was not guidance to nurses on how to speak to patients.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-teens-myocarditis/
title: The Pfizer vaccine, teenagers and myocarditis - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In children between 12 and 17 that had the Pfizer vaccine, there were 9,246 adverse reactions within a period of a month.

textual_rating:
That was how many reports were made up to July 2021, over more than six months, out of 8.9 million children who were vaccinated.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/incorrect-picture-included-with-article/
title: A mistake in the New York Post has been misconstrued as a sign of Covid-19 conspiracy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture showing people unwell on the streets of India was taken during a gas leak in 2020, not during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. This suggests that casualties from the current wave of Covid-19 in India are being exaggerated, and that Covid-19 is a conspiracy.

textual_rating:
This image was incorrectly used in a New York Post article about the Covid-19 pandemic, but it actually comes from a video taken in 2020 after a gas leak in Visakhapatnam, India. The outlet has since corrected the mistake, and there is nothing to suggest it is evidence of a conspiracy.


text: More people have died this year through stabbings or shooting, and more young men.
claimant: Bernard Hogan-Howe
claim_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/have-more-people-died-stabbings-and-shootings-year/
title: Have more people died in stabbings and shootings this year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t have exact figures for this year yet. The closest data we have is for homicides involving stabbings in London until the end of last year and those involving stabbings or shootings across the whole of England and Wales in 2016/17. These show increases in the past year or two and more young male victims.


claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2021-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/mail-online-parents-insist-children-wear-masks/
title: Data doesn’t show parents will ‘insist’ on children wearing masks to school - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
23% of parents of secondary pupils will insist their children wear masks when they return to school.

textual_rating:
The survey question this claim is based on did not ask whether or not parents would “insist” children wore masks—only whether or not children would wear them.


claimant: David Davis
claim_date: 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/corporation-tax-rates-and-revenues/
title: Corporation tax: could we have raised more? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Corporation tax rates have gone down since 2010 but the amount raised by this tax has increased to £56 billion, the highest ever recorded.

textual_rating:
It’s correct that the rate has fallen, but the actual amount raised in 2016/17 was £50 billion. The tricky question is how these two things are related. The government’s own estimates suggest it might have collected more without having made changes to corporation tax, even though these estimates are quite uncertain.


text: Muslims failing to understand government messaging were responsible for Leicester’s local outbreak.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/leicester-covid-outbreak-islam/
title: Claims that Muslims caused Leicester’s Covid-19 outbreak are baseless - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A failure to understand government messaging has been suggested as one factor contributing to Leicester’s outbreak, but it is not proven, far from the only possible factor and not limited to Muslims over any other community.


text: On existing trends, it will take 50 years for 50% of Queen’s Counsel to be female.
claimant: Frances Gibb
claim_date: 2017-01-28T00:00:00Z
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
textual_rating:
This is based on the change over the last year, but that doesn’t tell us much about what exactly will happen over 50. That said, the essence of the point is correct: gender parity is a long way off.


text: Record mouth cancer rates are due to ethylene oxide on Covid-19 test swabs.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/oral-cancer-ethylene-oxide/
title: Mouth cancer rates not increased by Covid-19 test swabs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ethylene oxide is carcinogenic in large enough exposures, but the amount on Covid test swabs and the length of time we are exposed to them poses minimal risk. While mouth cancer rates in the UK at least are high, they have been increasing over many years.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-justin-smith-facebook-hoax/
title: Appeal for missing ‘Justin Smith’ is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A nine-year-old boy named Justin Smith has gone missing on his bike. A silver alert has been activated to find him.

textual_rating:
This appeal is a hoax. The child pictured is actually a teenager who went missing in New York state in July but was later found. Silver alerts are not used in the UK.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A no deal Brexit means we wouldn’t have to make any more annual payments of £26 billion to £32 billion.

textual_rating:
If we leave the EU without a deal, it’s uncertain how much we’d have to pay the EU, if anything. But suggesting that we pay £26 billion to £32 billion per year at the moment is incorrect. 

Between 2011 and 2017 our net public contribution to the EU budget ranged from £8 billion to £11 billion per year.


text: The budget in Scotland has been continually cut by Westminster.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/scotland/has-scottish-government-budget-increased-or-decreased-2010/
title: Has the Scottish Government budget increased or decreased since 2010? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s been cut, but not every year. It fell between 2010-11 and 2013-14 any way you look at it. Since then it’s risen or stayed the same, depending what you include.


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
text:
Japanese-owned companies have made it clear that their investment in the UK depends on access to the Single Market.

textual_rating:
The Japanese government has sent a formal statement to the EU and UK, outlining what Japanese businesses would like a future trade agreement to look like. It raises the possibility that Japanese firms will relocate their European base from the UK to mainland Europe if barriers to investment are too high.


text: Walking your pet dog may raise your risk of catching coronavirus by 78 per cent.
claimant: University of Granada
claim_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/dog-risk-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Research suggesting increased Covid-19 risk for dog-owners may be barking up the wrong tree - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is based on research which has many flaws. In particular, suggestions this is down to dogs acting as a Covid-19 vector are based on limited evidence.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/anthony-hopkins-nanea-hoffman/
title: No evidence inspiring Facebook quote comes from Sir Anthony Hopkins - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An inspirational quote that begins “None of us are getting out of here alive” came from Sir Anthony Hopkins.

textual_rating:
We can find no evidence for this. The quote appears to come from a 2015 Facebook post by Nanea Hoffman, the founder of an online lifestyle brand.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-cold/
title: The Pfizer Covid-19 candidate vaccine is not too cold to be called a vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Any vaccine that needs to be stored and shipped at -80 degrees isn’t a vaccine. It’s a transfection agent, kept alive so it can infect your cells and transfer genetic material.

textual_rating:
One candidate RNA vaccine does have to be stored at close to this temperature. It is still a vaccine though, and other vaccines, such as the Ebola vaccine also had to be this cold. This RNA vaccine is in no way alive, although it does contain genetic material that can be read by human cells.


text: Tens of thousands of doctors and nurses in the NHS are from other EU countries.
claimant: Jo Swinson
claim_date: 2019-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/lib-dem-health-workers-nhs-brexit/
title: Lib Dem claims about EU health workers and the NHS are generally true - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That is correct. The number of reported other EU nationals working for the NHS in March 2019 was 65,000, of whom around 31,000 were doctors and nurses.


claimant: Owen Smith MP
claim_date: 2017-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-would-hard-brexit-cost/
title: How much would a hard Brexit cost? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Trading with the EU under World Trade Organisation rules alone would cost the UK £45 billion in lost GDP.

textual_rating:
That’s quoting the Treasury’s forecast incorrectly. £45 billion was the Treasury’s estimate for the cost to tax revenues after 15 years, rather than the size of the economy. It's not unorthodox to say that trading with the EU under terms set by the WTO would be bad from an economic perspective. Even so, no forecast is certain.


text: If you drive during Storm Eunice your car insurance will be voided.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/storm-eunice-car-insurance/
title: Driving during red weather warning won’t void your insurance - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Driving during bad weather does not void car insurance, though driving negligently may affect any compensation or payout you receive should you need to make a claim.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
title: How much have healthcare workers paid through the immigration health surcharge? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Contributions from health workers paying the immigration health surcharge help us raise about £900 million.

url:
https://fullfact.org/health/how-much-have-healthcare-workers-paid-through-immigration-health-surcharge/

textual_rating:
£900 million is the total amount raised by the immigration health surcharge – paid by some international UK residents – over four years. It is not the amount paid solely by health workers and carers.


text: Iran has sentenced around 15,000 protesters to death.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/iran-protesters-death-sentences-15000/
title: Iran hasn’t sentenced 15,000 protesters to death - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although the majority of Iran’s parliament signed a letter in favour of harsh punishment (which could involve the death penalty) for those involved in recent protests, this does not mean the 15,000 or so people detained in recent protests have been sentenced to death. A small number have been sentenced to death and thousands more have yet to face trial.


text: A photo shows that hand sanitiser is poison because it degrades metal.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hand-sanitiser-stand-rust/
title: Rusty hand sanitiser stand doesn’t prove hand gel is poison - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo shows a metal hand sanitiser stand that has probably rusted due to the water contained in hand sanitiser dripping on it over time. Water isn’t harmful to human skin in the same way, and neither is alcohol.


claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/labour-broadband-maintenance/
title: Labour corrects broadband cost figure - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Full-fibre has low maintenance costs once rolled out, which can be estimated at around £230 million a year.

textual_rating:
This is based on a miscalculation. Data from the infrastructure agency suggests costs would be two to four times this amount.


text: Supermarket prices for bacon have gone up, partly because of the UK’s vote to leave the EU.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2016-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/bacon-brexit/
title: What have bacon butties got to do with Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Wholesale prices for bacon products have risen in the past few months, partly due to a fall in the exchange rate after the UK voted to leave the EU. But the price paid in shops has fallen this year.


text: Knife murders fell 14% due to increased stop and search operations in London.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/knife-crime-october-2019/
title: Knife crime at eight-year high - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Homicides involving a knife are down, and stop and searches in London for offensive weapons are up but there’s no evidence to support the idea that one is causing the other.


text: The Retained EU Law Bill will abolish our right to watch the Olympics free of charge.
claimant: Stella Creasy
claim_date: 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/EU-law-free-to-air-Olympics/
title: How might the Retained EU Law Bill affect our right to watch the Olympics for free? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Olympics is one of a number of “listed events” which must be offered to free-to-air terrestrial broadcasters. It’s possible the current list which specifies these events may fall under the scope of the Retained EU Law Bill. However the power to designate listed events won’t be affected and the government says it’ll ensure the right to watch the Olympics for free won’t change.


text: 24,300 people died from preventable causes over winter last year.
claimant: Dan Jarvis
claim_date: 2016-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-excess-deaths-are-there-winter/
title: How many excess deaths are there in winter? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
24,300 more people died during the winter in 2015/16 than the average over the months before and after. These deaths are known as excess winter deaths and are largely attributed to respiratory diseases, circulatory conditions or dementia.


text: Crime rates in England and Wales are at a record high.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/police-recorded-crime-record-high/
title: Are crime rates at a record high? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim is missing context. While the number of crimes recorded by the police has risen, this is not the best data to understand overall trends. Overall crime as measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales is actually falling.


text: The BBC said there is HIV in the Covid-19 vaccines.
claimant: Republic Broadcasting Network
claim_date: 2022-02-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/hiv-covid-vaccine-queensland/
title: Potential Covid-19 vaccine which used HIV protein was never rolled out - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The BBC was talking about a vaccine which was trialled but never rolled out, which contained a small piece of HIV protein. None of the Covid-19 vaccines in use contain HIV material.


text: Britons have spent £4bn stockpiling goods in case of no-deal Brexit.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2019-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/4-billion-brexit-stockpiling-claim-flawed/
title: £4 billion Brexit stockpiling claim based on flawed survey - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is almost certainly an exaggeration. The survey it’s based on likely overestimates the amount that has been stockpiled, and consumer spending data shows no evidence of people stockpiling to this degree.


text: US food standards allow for maggots in orange juice.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/food-poisoning-US-UK/
title: You can’t really compare rates of food poisoning between the US and UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
US food standards set limits above zero for maggots in orange juice, beyond which enforcement action is mandatory.


text: Under the Conservatives, the state pension has risen by over £1,450.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2019-04-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/prime-ministers-pension-claims-dont-adjust-inflation/
title: Prime Minister’s pension claims don’t adjust for inflation - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In cash terms yes, the state pension has increased by £1,470 since 2010/11. But after accounting for inflation the increase is around £550.


text: Amazon is giving away parcels of appliances, including ‘sorted electronics’, for only £3.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Amazon-electronics--fake-offer/
title: Amazon is not giving away parcels of ‘sorted electronics’ for £3 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a genuine offer from the retailer. An Amazon spokesperson has confirmed the page sharing it is not affiliated with the company.


text: One in three girls in school uniform has been sexually harassed in public.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2018-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/girls-school-uniform-sexually-harassed/
title: 35% of girls wearing school uniform have been sexually harassed in public - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
35% of 14-21 year-olds in the UK said they had experienced unwanted sexual attention or unwanted sexual or physical contact while wearing school uniform in public, according to a survey for Plan International.


text: Nearly 99% of Covid-19 patients who are vitamin D deficient die, according to a research study.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vitamin-d-study-flawed/
title: Covid-19 study that links deaths to low vitamin D levels is flawed - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A study from Indonesia did claim to show this, but there are problems with the study methods that mean it doesn’t prove this is the case. The paper has now been removed by the authors from the online research library it appeared on.


text: A probable new link has been found between the Pfizer jab and the heart condition myocarditis.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2021-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-myocarditis/
title: Possible link between Pfizer second dose and mild heart inflammation in young men - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Researchers reporting to the health ministry in Israel have found a possible link between mild myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) in young men and getting the second dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.


text: The UK is going through the biggest squeeze on its living standards since the Napoleonic Wars.
claimant: Aditya Chakrabortty
claim_date: 2017-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wage-growth-napoleonic-wars/
title: Is wage growth at the same level as during the Napoleonic wars? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Wage growth between 2010 and 2020 will be the lowest it’s been over any ten year period in peacetime since the Napoleonic Wars. Experts say it was lower around both the First and Second World Wars. There’s more than one way to measure living standards too.


text: No deal is consistently the preferred option of the British public.
claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2019-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/does-public-want-no-deal/
title: Does the public want no deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading to suggest. While some polls have found this, others have found more support for remaining in the EU. It all depends on how the question is asked and the options respondents are presented with.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/HEK-293-cells/
title: There aren’t human foetal cells in lots of popular snacks and drinks - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Various multinational food and drink companies use artificial flavourings made by Senomyx which are made from aborted foetal cells.

textual_rating:
All but one company confirmed they didn’t use the flavouring product made by the company in question. 

The cells are not flavourings themselves but used in flavouring development. They are clones of cells taken from the kidney of aborted foetus in 1973.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dr-baffled-covid-vaccination-cheart-attacks-children/
title: No evidence Covid-19 vaccines causing heart attacks in children - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Many people suddenly have previously rare conditions and children are having heart attacks, with the implication being this is as a result of the Covid-19 vaccines.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The Covid-19 vaccines have not been linked to heart attacks in children, and only rarely with other serious side effects.


text: It’s illegal to sue those behind covid vaccines.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-infertile-sued/
review_date: 2020-12-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
A post about coronavirus vaccines gets facts about their safety, ingredients, and legality wrong - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Current UK law says that if the government decided to authorise a vaccine for emergency use, manufacturers and healthcare professionals would not take responsibility for most civil liability claims. However if the product is not found to have met safety standards or is defective, this immunity is lost.


text: New legislation has been introduced to change laws on workplace rights.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2018-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/zero-hour-contract-legislation/
title: Government proposes new zero hour contract legislation - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-12-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government has made a statement to parliament saying they intend to introduce new laws to change workers’ rights. The exact wording of the proposed law hasn’t been published yet.


text: That the donkey in an image was being carried to prevent it causing harm by exploding landmines.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/donkey-being-carried/
title: Donkey being carried out of compassion, not self-preservation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The donkey was actually being carried out of compassion, and later became a mascot for the French Foreign Legion.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2016-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/whats-behind-rise-deaths/
title: What’s behind the rise in deaths? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The rise in deaths is the largest for almost fifty years, prompting concerns about a crisis in elderly care.

textual_rating:
Provisional data suggests the increase in deaths in England and Wales from 2014 to 2015 was the largest annual rise since 1968. The rate of death—the number of deaths per 1,000 population—is also thought to be up. The ONS told us the higher number of deaths was due to the flu.


claimant: Roger Bootle, City A.M.
claim_date: 2015-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/renegotiating-ever-closer-union/
title: Renegotiating "ever closer union" - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK dropping our EU treaty commitment to "ever closer union" would make us less likely to be drawn into a federal Europe.

textual_rating:
Unlike opt-outs in specific areas of EU activity, this change wouldn't have a direct legal effect. Any impact would be mainly political.


text: A picture of an untethered astronaut floating in space is fake.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nasa-untethered-astronaut-photo/
title: Photo of astronaut floating above Earth is real - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo is real and was taken by NASA crew during the first ever untethered space walk, carried out by astronaut Bruce McCandless II in 1984.


text: Writing off current student loans would cost £100 billion.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2017-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/100-billion-cost-writing-student-debt/
title: £100 billion: the cost of writing off student debt? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is roughly the value of current student loans in the UK, including maintenance loans. But the true ‘additional’ cost of a policy to write off current student loans, compared to the amount the government already ‘writes off’ from unpaid loans, would be lower than this.


text: At least 133 children have died of Covid-19 in the UK.
claimant: British Journal of General Practice
claim_date: 2022-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/133-covid-deaths-children/
title: GP’s article overstates the number of Covid-19 deaths in children - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is the number of deaths in England following a positive Covid-19 test in people aged under 20. The number of deaths that we know were caused by Covid in people aged under 18 in England and Wales is 50, although this figure is slightly less recent.


text: Labour built 61,000 homes for social rent in Scotland.
claimant: Richard Leonard
claim_date: 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/social-renting-scotland/
title: The state of social renting in Scotland - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. 37,000 new-build social homes were started under eight years of Labour-Lib Dem coalition government in Scotland.


text: In the EU at least 83m people (27%) suffer from mental health problems.
claimant: Victoria Derbyshire show
claim_date: 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/about-27-europeans-are-likely-experience-mental-health-problem-year/
title: About 27% of Europeans are likely to experience a mental health problem in a year - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research agrees that 27% of Europeans experience at least one mental disorder in a year. Population growth means it's probably over 120m people by now.


text: On average there are less than 10 deaths a week from Covid-19.
claimant: Julia Hartley-Brewer
claim_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/talk-radio-covid-death-statistics/
title: More than 10 people are dying of Covid-19 each week in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is untrue. At the time this claim was made, there was a seven-day average of 8.6 Covid-19 deaths each day. In the seven days before this was claimed, 57 Covid-19 deaths were reported in the UK.


claimant: Via WhatsApp
claim_date: 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/pregnant-then-screwed/pfizer-leaflet-pregnant-covid-vaccines/
title: What is the advice on getting the Pfizer vaccine during pregnancy? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is a discrepancy between information on Pfizer’s website and patient information leaflet and official government advice for pregnant women thinking about getting the Covid-19 vaccine.

textual_rating:
It is true that the advice given by Pfizer and the advice given by health authorities differs. Pfizer said this is because it is not within the company’s remit to say there is sufficient clinical evidence to support pregnant women getting their Covid-19 vaccine safely. This decision is down to each individual country’s regulatory body.


claimant: Sajid Javid
claim_date: 2022-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/ukraine-family-visa-scheme-eligibility/
title: Sajid Javid wrong on government guidance for Ukraine family visas - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Ukrainians in the UK on a work visa can bring family members to the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The current guidance doesn’t allow people to join their relatives under these circumstances.


text: 200,000 elderly are abused by partners.
claimant: Daily Mail print edition
claim_date: 2019-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/elderly-domestic-abuse/
title: Over 200,000 elderly people experienced domestic abuse in 2017/18 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Around 210,000 people aged 60 to 74 in England and Wales are estimated to have been victims of domestic abuse in 2017/18. 

Of those people, 152,000 were victims of domestic abuse by a partner. 

However, the data is likely to underestimate the true extent of domestic abuse.


claimant: Alan Johnson
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/article-50-two-year-limit/
title: Article 50: a two-year limit - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is a two-year time limit for Brexit negotiations under Article 50, which the UK has no power to extend.

textual_rating:
Correct. The UK will be out of the EU two years after triggering Article 50, unless it reaches an agreement within that time or agrees with all other EU members to extend the negotiation period.


text: Tens of thousands of workers will share in a £1.8 billion pay rise under a US trade deal.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/us-trade-deal-wages/
review_date: 2020-03-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The government’s “£1.8 billion pay rise” from a US trade deal doesn’t outweigh the impacts of Brexit on wages - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Government analysis shows wages could be 0.2% (£1.8 billion) higher after 15 years under a scenario where we sign a free trade deal with the USA compared to a baseline scenario where we don’t. But this baseline assumes wages will be 6.4% lower than they would have been, had we remained in the EU.


text: The cost of 20 years in Afghanistan was only 59% of the cost of NHS Test and Trace.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Test-Trace-Afghanistan-UK-spending/
title: NHS Test and Trace has not spent as much as war in Afghanistan yet - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MoD estimates for the military costs of being in Afghanistan from 2002 onwards are around £27.7 billion. The total budget for Test and Trace for its first two years is £37 billion.


claimant: Trisha Greenhalgh
claim_date: 2023-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/5live-mask-mandates-2020/
title: Mask mandates did not immediately control a Covid-19 wave in 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 cases were going up very rapidly in England when mask mandates were introduced in 2020, and the mandates brought them under control within weeks.

textual_rating:
Covid infections were not rising rapidly when the mask mandates were introduced in the summer of 2020. They were generally low and flat, but began to rise later, in the autumn.


text: These lipid nanoparticles may have adverse effects on fertility for both men and women.
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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Nanoparticles are a broad spectrum of different materials that only have their small size in common. There’s no evidence that the lipid nanoparticles in these vaccines will have any effect on fertility.


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:
The antibiotics gentamicin sulfate and polymyxin b are in vaccines and can cause allergic reactions ranging from mild to life-threatening.

textual_rating:
Traces of these antibiotics can end up in certain vaccines, but would only cause a reaction in someone severely allergic.


text: The UK has dropped to 14th in a world ranking for investment in renewable energy.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2016-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/investment-renewables/
title: Investment in renewables - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK has fallen to 14th in a ranking for most attractive countries to invest in renewables. A different ranking put it at 4th in the world for actual spending in 2015.


text: 3.5 million don’t have access to any photo ID.
claimant: Cat Smith MP
claim_date: 2019-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/voter-id-2019/
title: Voter ID scheme: far more turned away than convicted of electoral fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for Great Britain according to research from 2015 – there isn’t a more up-to-date figure. It refers to types of ID that would be valid as part of the government’s proposed voter ID scheme.


text: A video shows an emergency alert siren playing in public in London.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/london-air-raid-siren/
title: This video does not show an official alert siren playing in London - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is very unlikely this happened. The UK’s civil defence siren has been retired since 1992, and most of the actual siren systems removed. We could find no other coverage of a siren playing in the area shown in the clip.


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
text:
In the UK on 1 July 2021, 66% had had their first vaccination, 49% had had their second, and there were 27,989 new cases of Covid-19.

textual_rating:
This is correct for the percentage of the UK population that had been vaccinated and how many new cases were reported on that date.


text: Police spending has been protected.
claimant: Brandon Lewis
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 funding from government for police in England and Wales will continue to fall until 2020. Most local forces have the power to raise enough money to keep their budgets flat - but only if they raise the maximum amount they're allowed to.


text: The percentage of judges that are from ethnic minorities has fallen in the past year.
claimant: Legal Cheek
claim_date: 2016-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/diversity-judges-statistics/
title: Diversity among judges: a mixed picture - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is what the official statistics appear to show, but in fact there has been a slight rise in the proportion of ethnic minority judges compared to 2015. It's now 6.5% of those whose ethnicity is recorded, up from 5.9%. The apparent fall is due to a change in methodology.


text: From 21 July to 25 July the UK reported 426 Covid-19 deaths.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/spain-uk-covid-comparison/
title: You were more likely to catch Covid-19 in Spain than the UK in late July. - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. This figure is the number of deaths registered after a positive test, so will miss out some Covid-19 deaths.


text: The mRNA vaccines are experimental.
claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Andrew-Bridgen-Covid-19-vaccines/
review_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Andrew Bridgen wrong to say Covid-19 mRNA vaccines aren’t recommended while pregnant or breastfeeding - Full Fact

textual_rating:
mRNA technology has been researched for a number of years, and the vaccines have been tested to high standards for safety and effectiveness, in the same way as other vaccines.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-footage-actor-body-bag/
title: Video of person moving inside body bag isn’t from Ukraine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
News footage from Ukraine shows someone moving inside into a body bag and pretending to be a victim of the Russian invasion.

textual_rating:
This clip is not from Ukraine. It has been manipulated, with the original footage being taken at a climate protest in Vienna.


claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2018-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/article-24/
title: Does WTO Article 24 allow us to have tariff-free trade with the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If we leave the EU on WTO terms, Article 24 of the World Trade Organisation would allow the UK and EU to maintain zero tariffs for up to 10 years while negotiating a new deal with the EU.

textual_rating:
This is very unlikely in practice. This refers to Article 24 of the WTO’s General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. It allows countries who are negotiating a free-trade area or customs union to have an interim agreement on trade tariffs for a period of (in most cases) up to ten years provided they have a “plan and schedule” agreed for concluding a final deal. It’s unlikely we could have such a “plan and schedule” in place with the EU before we leave.


text: British youngsters are the “most illiterate” in the developed world.
claimant: ITV News
claim_date: 2016-01-29T00:00:00Z
title: Ask Full Fact: Are British youngsters the most illiterate in the developed world? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/ask-full-fact-are-british-youngsters-most-illiterate-developed-world/

textual_rating:
The report this is based on didn’t say that British youngsters were the most “illiterate” as such. It said the proportion of 16-19 year olds in England who have “low literacy” is the highest of 23 countries and regions in the OECD. Having low literacy skills involved having difficulty with simple written information, such as not being able to fully understand instructions on a bottle of aspirin.


text: Vapers with Covid-19 are up to 17% more likely to transmit the virus.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vapers-covid-transmit/
title: Study doesn’t say most vapers are 17% more likely to transmit Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The study found this may be the case in a small minority of vapers. However, in most vapers the increased risk is 1%. Even the higher 17% risk is lower than the risk from coughing or talking.


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:
Serious adverse effects reported by the public after vaccination are thought to represent only 10% of the true rate of serious adverse events.

textual_rating:
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has specifically warned this estimate shouldn’t be used for Covid-19 vaccines, given there was high public awareness of its Yellow Card scheme.


text: There are 1.9 million more children studying in good or outstanding schools since 2010.
claimant: Theresa Villiers
claim_date: 2018-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/2-million-children-outstanding-schools/
title: Nearly 2 million more children are in good or outstanding schools since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, comparing Ofsted ratings between 2010 and 2017. This progress has been influenced by Ofsted’s changing inspection practices—which refined what was expected of schools and placed a greater emphasis on inspecting schools which fell below this expectation.


text: HS2 will cost £150 billion.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hs2-costs-labour-manifesto/
title: HS2 isn’t expected to cost as much as this post claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is much higher than the latest independent estimate, which puts it at £106 billion. That cost is significantly higher than initital estimates.


text: 72% of the goods that leave Belfast port come to Great Britain.
claimant: Arlene Foster
claim_date: 2018-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/trade-across-irish-sea/
title: Trade across the Irish Sea - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim hasn’t been substantiated and we’ve not seen wider evidence for this. In 2016, 85% of goods which left Belfast port went to the UK, measured by their weight. 56% of all Northern Irish goods sold beyond its borders went to Great Britain, based on the value of those goods.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/social-care-delayed-transfers-hospital/
title: Social care and delayed transfers from hospital - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That is correct for 2011/12 to 2015/16.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In the last four years the number of patients whose transfer from hospital was delayed due to problems with social care has increased by one third.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/jacob-rees-mogg-lobby-fracking-picture/
title: Old picture of Jacob Rees-Mogg in 2018 scuffle going viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The incident pictured happened in Bristol in 2018.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows Jacob Rees-Mogg involved in a scuffle, suggesting it shows an incident in the House of Commons during a vote on fracking on 19 October 2022.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-salaries/
review_date: 2020-02-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The starting salary for police officers has not increased from its level in 2010, when it was £23,000.

title:
MPs salaries have grown faster than starting salaries of nurses, teachers and police officers - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This figure is wrong. In 2010, a newly qualified constable’s starting salary was £23,000; it is now £24,200. However, if you factor in inflation this amounts to a 14% fall in pay.


text: Fuel prices are not connected to oil prices.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/oil-fuel-prices-inflation/
title: The price of fuel is quite closely connected to the price of oil - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Fuel prices are connected to oil prices, although other factors like tax are important. This claim is based on a misleading comparison between inflation-adjusted oil prices and non-adjusted fuel prices.


claimant: Philip Hammond
claim_date: 2016-12-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/plans-reducing-deficit/
title: Best laid plans... for reducing the deficit - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That's correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The budget deficit has fallen by two thirds since 2009/10, just before the Coalition came into power.


text: Knife 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:
Police and hospital figures show knife crimes at or near their highest recorded levels. Knife crime is almost certainly rising at the moment, but no source is strong enough for us to be certain that it’s at record levels.


text: A Lisbon court found only 152 deaths have been caused by Covid in Portugal.
claimant: Daily Expose
claim_date: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lisbon-portugal-covid-deaths/
title: A Portuguese court hasn’t said there have only been 152 Covid deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. A Lisbon court found doctors from the Ministry of Justice recorded 152 deaths have been caused by Covid in Portugal. Most deaths are recorded by doctors from the Ministry of Health. In total over 17,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Portugal.


text: Cannabis cures cancer.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cancer-cannabis/
title: Cannabis has not been shown to definitively cure cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This has not been definitively proven. Research is ongoing but we only have solid evidence for the use of cannabis in symptom management, not for treating cancer itself.


text: Help to Buy ISAs won’t help you with your mortgage deposit.
claimant: James Andrews
claim_date: 2016-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/help-to-buy-isas/
title: Help to Buy ISAs: do they work and were they mis-sold? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Several banks have said that they will treat the bonus payments as part of the buyer’s savings when they apply for a mortgage, even though it won’t arrive in their bank account until after the sale is completed.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines/
title: The Covid-19 vaccines have not only been tested on healthy people as claimed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 vaccines have been authorised on an emergency licence, because they are still in clinical trials.

textual_rating:
Two of the vaccines have received temporary authorisation, and the Moderna vaccine has been issued conditional marketing authorisation.

These classifications are regulatory tools to allow approval at the earliest time possible during an emergency situation, as soon as there is robust data to show that the benefits outweigh the risks.


text: A D-notice is currently blocking the UK media from reporting on Yellow Vest protests in France.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/d-notice-yellow-vests/
title: There is no D-notice blocking reporting on Yellow Vest protests - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no D-notice for the protests. D-notices (also known as DSMA-notices) are non-mandatory advice and guidance for the media regarding reporting on defence and security information. They do not cover specific incidents.


text: In 2008, US children got 36 vaccines and the autism rate was 1 in 150.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccines-dont-cause-autism/
review_date: 2019-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Autism prevalence is up but scientists have consistently found that vaccines don’t cause it - Full Fact

textual_rating:
US children were recommended to get around 13 vaccines, which involved about 39 doses, in 2008. It was estimated that about 1 in 88 children has autism disorders.


text: All of the animals used in vaccine trials died.
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:
There is no evidence for this. If animals had died after being vaccinated, human trials would have been stopped, which they weren’t. It is common practice in animal trials to euthanize the subjects so they can be examined.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/children-parents-reading/
title: One in seven parents don’t read to their 7-9 year-old for more than 15 minutes per week - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One in seven children aged seven to nine gets less than 15 minutes a week reading time with their parents.

textual_rating:
A survey found one in seven parents reads to their child aged seven to nine for less than 15 minutes per week. That doesn’t necessarily mean the child’s other parent isn’t reading to them as well.


text: Real household incomes are about £900 lower than forecast before the Brexit referendum.
claimant: Mark Carney
claim_date: 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-families-900-worse-brexit/
title: Are families £900 worse off since Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not possible to get this exact figure using publicly available data and the Bank of England told us its calculation was based on unpublished data.


text: US-Patent 8835624 is for the H1N1 virus.
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:
The patent with this number was for a strand of DNA that binds to the H1N1 virus, not the virus itself.


text: Geek Bar vapes are equivalent to 125 cigarettes.
claimant: Lou Deanie
claim_date: 2022-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaping-harms/
title: Vaping harms overstated in viral video - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The standard Geek Bar product pictured in the video is not equivalent to 125 cigarettes, whether measured by the number of puffs or how much nicotine can be absorbed. Geek Bar has previously said another of its products is equivalent to 125 cigarettes based on the number of puffs.


claimant: David King
claim_date: 2020-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/independent-sage-27000/
title: Independent SAGE’s estimated death rate is too high - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If the rate of infection in late June continues for nine months, the UK will experience 27,000 more deaths from Covid-19.

textual_rating:
This is too high. This estimate was calculated using data on when deaths were reported, not when they happened. It also suggests an unrealistically high death rate, given the number of infections at the time.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2023-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/burning-man-no-Ebola-outbreak/
title: There are no official reports of an Ebola outbreak at Burning Man festival - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The CDC have announced there has been an Ebola outbreak at Burning Man festival in Nevada. A Forbes article confirms this.

textual_rating:
Images claiming to show this have been altered. The CDC made no such announcement and the real Forbes article says there is no Ebola at the festival.


text: Taxpayers contribute about £4 million to subsidise food at the Houses of Parliament.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/parliament-food-subsidised/
title: Parliament’s food outlets ran at a loss of £9 million in 2020/21 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Catering services at the Houses of Parliament run at a loss so they are effectively subsidised. When the claim was first made in 2019, the latest data for 2017/18 for this cost was about £3.1 million. In 2020/21, the cost was £9.1 million, mainly due to reduced sales because of Covid-19 lockdowns.


text: Recent flooding would have been prevented by dredging.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/EU-dredging-floods/
title: EU regulations on dredging did not cause recent flooding - 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. Experts say dredging is part of flooding prevention, but only one part, and would not have prevented the recent floods.


text: Daily Covid-19 deaths dropped to “just” seven on Saturday 10 April 2021.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2021-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-death-reporting-weekend-uk/
title: The weekend Covid-19 death figures need more context - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the number of deaths reported on Saturday, but may not reflect the actual number of people who died of Covid-19 that day due to lags in reporting at the weekend.


text: Six million people earn below the living wage.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-six-million-people-earning-less-living-wage/
title: Are six million people earning less than the living wage? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Around six million jobs pay less than the living wage as calculated by the Living Wage Foundation. That's not quite the same as six million people because some people have more than one job.


text: The UK Government retains at least £50 billion in revenue raised in Scotland.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/scotland/scottish-spending-2019/
title: UK Government doesn’t retain £50bn of Scottish taxes - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. In 2019/20 Scotland raised around £65 billion in public revenues. Spending in or on Scotland totalled £82 billion.


claimant: Ellie Grey
claim_date: 2023-06-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ellie-grey-cancer-cures-cannabis-thc/
title: Influencer Ellie Grey makes unsupported claims about cancer cures - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: None of these have been shown to be effective in treating cancer in humans.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
THC, IV vitamin C, essiac tea, LDN, mistletoe therapy, apricot kernels, alkaline diets are all cancer cures.


text: Roaming charges in Europe are lower because of the EU.
claimant: Will Straw, Britain Stronger in Europe
claim_date: 2016-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-has-reduced-roaming-charges/
title: The EU has reduced roaming charges - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The EU has put a cap on the amount you can be charged for using your phone abroad, and prices have fallen. Networks won't generally be able to charge roaming fees at all from 2017.


text: Overall crime has fallen by around 50% since 2010.
claimant: Chris Philp
claim_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/crime-figures-fall-half-conservatives/
title: Conservative claim that ‘overall crime’ has fallen 50% since 2010 excludes fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is based on specific data from the crime survey for England and Wales which doesn't count fraud or computer misuse offences, so doesn't represent all crime.  In 2022 the crime survey estimated that fraud and computer misuse accounted for around 4.4 million out of 9 million total offences. We don’t have comparable data for 2010. The total number of offences including fraud and computer misuse has dropped by about 20% since 2017.


text: There are more flu vaccines available than ever before.
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-more-beds-doctors-flu-vaccines/
title: NHS: More beds, more doctors, and more flu vaccines? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In October, the Chief Medical Officer for England said that there were “more people eligible than ever before” for the flu vaccine this winter, and NHS England said it aimed to treat up to 21 million people. Public Health England doesn’t yet have complete figures on how many people received the vaccine this winter.


text: Obesity kills 2.8 billion people a year.
claimant: Daily Star
claim_date: 2023-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/daily-star-obesity-study-deaths/
title: Daily Star corrects error in reporting obesity deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A World Health Organisation estimate put the number of deaths caused by being obese or overweight at 2.8 million, not billion.


text: In January 2020, the economy had grown by 73% under the Conservative government.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/
title: Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The economy grew 73% between 1990 and 2017, under both Labour and Conservative-led governments. In January 2020, the economy had grown by around 20% since the Conservatives took office in 2010.


text: Higher education in this country is blindingly middle class.
claimant: Sarah Churchwell
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/higher-education-white-middle-class/
title: Higher education: a white, middle-class affair? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Across several different measures, the more disadvantaged your background, the less likely you are to go into higher education. The gap has been narrowing over time, but is bigger at the most selective universities.


claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2021-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/facemasks-box-label/
title: It’s not ‘anti-science’ to wear a face mask - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The label on a box of face masks says “will not protect against Covid-19”. Therefore it’s “anti-science” to wear one.

textual_rating:
The main role of this type of face mask is to reduce the spread of Covid-19 droplets from an infected wearer, to help protect others, rather than to protect the wearer from infection.


text: There is more funding for NHS dentists.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-nhs-dentist-numbers/
title: Are more dentists now working in the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The NHS in England put an extra £50 million into dentistry in January 2022. However, total spending on NHS dentistry in England is down in real terms over the past decade.


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:
The Paul Ehrlich Institute, responsible for vaccine safety in Germany, found that one in 5,000 people was seriously affected after a vaccination.

textual_rating:
This is misleading. The German health ministry did mistakenly tweet, with reference to the Paul Ehrlich Institute, that one in 5,000 people had been affected by a serious side effect following a Covid-19 vaccine earlier this year. But it then deleted that tweet and later clarified that the reports weren’t known to be caused by the vaccine, just that they had happened afterwards.


text: A junior doctor makes just £14.09 per hour.
claimant: British Medical Association
claim_date: 2023-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bma-junior-doctors-hourly-pay/
title: The average junior doctor gets paid more than £14 an hour - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The average junior doctor makes much more than this. Depending whether you include extra earnings and time off for holidays, it’s probably between about £20 and £30 per hour.


text: The fatality rate in Scotland is 13.9%, the same as in Italy.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/scotland-england-fatality-rates/
title: Be wary of social media posts comparing fatality rates in confirmed Covid-19 cases - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the fatality rate of cases of Covid-19 confirmed by NHS labs in Scotland, which is about the same in Italy.


text: The number of nurses in the NHS has declined by 5,000 because of Brexit.
claimant: Jo Swinson
claim_date: 2019-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/lib-dem-health-workers-nhs-brexit/
title: Lib Dem claims about EU health workers and the NHS are generally true - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is true that nursing and midwifery numbers have dropped by around 5,000 since the referendum, and Brexit is a likely factor driving at least some of this fall.


text: Diabetes is linked to a quarter of pandemic deaths in England according to NHS statistics.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/diabetes-covid-19-deaths-england/
title: Daily Express diabetes and coronavirus deaths headline is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
About a quarter of Covid-19 patients who died in England hospital also had diabetes, but this does not mean that diabetes was definitely linked to all these deaths. This cannot be concluded from these NHS statistics.


text: The flu vaccine is contaminated with formaldehyde and polysorbate 80.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-shot-formaldehyde-polysorbate-80/
title: Flu vaccines may contain harmless levels of formaldehyde - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some flu vaccines contain trace amounts of formaldehyde, but not enough to do any harm. Some also contain small amounts of polysorbate 80, but this widely used food additive is only potentially harmful to those with a rare allergy to it.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-mega-england-quote/
title: ‘Make England Great Again’ quote does not really come from Lee Anderson - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A “Make England Great Again” quote, which suggests Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have done nothing “to make an Englishman proud” and instead have had “one long moan”, comes from Conservative party deputy chair Lee Anderson.

textual_rating:
False. Lee Anderson did not say this. It comes from a political sketch written by John Crace for the Guardian.


text: 54% would be unhappy if the Chequers deal was carried through.
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 43%.


text: There are 1.8 million more children in good or outstanding schools.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/more-pupils-good-or-outstanding-schools/
title: 1.8m more pupils in good or outstanding schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. 1.8 million more pupils were in good or outstanding schools in 2016 than in 2010. This progress is partly due to Ofsted's changing inspection practice.


text: Only 22 per cent of homes already granted planning permission in the Green Belt are affordable.
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:
Correct according to analysis by the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Not all homes with planning permission get built, though some of these already have been. 

Last year in England 19% of all new homes (within and outside the Green Belt) were “affordable”.


text: Criminals are posing as census takers in order to rob homes.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hoax-census-takers-community-groups/
title: Claims that bogus census takers are robbing houses in the UK are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Similar claims have been circulating for at least six years in various countries around the world, but there is no evidence of any such robbery taking place.


text: Oxford’s plans will restrict how many days a year you are able to leave your zone in your car.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Ealing-15-minute-cities/
title: No plans to restrict the use of cars by creating 20-minute neighbourhoods in Ealing - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While Oxford residents may be fined for driving on specific roads without a permit at certain times under the city’s proposals, they won’t be prevented from leaving their neighbourhood by car entirely and will be able to drive to every part of the city when they want, though this may involve taking a different route.


text: There’s been a 40% increase in the number of people that we are intercepting in the Channel.
claimant: Oliver Dowden
claim_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/small-boat-interception-rates/
review_date: 2023-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
How many people have been intercepted while attempting to cross the Channel in small boats? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Approximately 33,000 attempts by individuals to cross the English Channel by small boat were intercepted by French authorities in 2022, compared to around 23,000 in 2021—a roughly 43% increase. The percentage of attempts which were intercepted has fallen slightly, however.


text: The UK is the largest investor in the US economy.
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. UK-based companies invested around $541 billion in the USA in 2017, based on official US figures. That made it the top investor in the country.


text: EU migration is at record levels.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/jobs-figures-cant-show-record-eu-migration/
title: Jobs figures can't show record EU migration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. Figures released today only show the number of EU nationals and EU born in work, not the numbers coming to the UK. The most recent migration estimates don't show record levels, but EU migration is historically high and could hit a record count when figures are released next week.


text: There are 2,400 EU laws still on the UK statute book.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/rishi-sunak-retained-eu-law/
title: Rishi Sunak pledge to review ‘2,400’ remaining EU laws doesn’t tell the full story - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
According to government figures, 2,417 items of retained EU law were incorporated into UK statute books after Brexit, but 229 of those have now been repealed or replaced. A further 182 have also been amended.


text: 136 children in the UK have died of Covid since the pandemic began.
claimant: nhs england
claim_date: 2022-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-covid-risk-children/
title: NHS video overstates the risk of Covid-19 to children - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. The number of deaths that we know were caused by Covid in people aged under 18 in England and Wales is 50, although this figure doesn’t include 2022 deaths, and it would rise slightly with the inclusion of data from Scotland and Northern Ireland.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Union-Jack-Eu-Flag-Parliament/
title: EU Flags were not replaced by Union Jacks outside of parliament - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Union Jack flags have replaced EU flags outside parliament ahead of the opening of parliament by the Queen.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. There were no flags in parliament square prior to the Union Jack ones being put up for the ceremony.


claimant: Facebook user
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
textual_rating: The BBC has replayed the original footage, with more audible booing, on more than one occasion.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Every version of the footage of the Johnsons’ arrival broadcast since has been the “edited version”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dominic-raab-peppa-pig-sky-news-boris-johnson/
title: Dominic Raab didn’t say he watched Peppa Pig with his parents when he was young - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Dominic Raab said he watched Peppa Pig with his parents when he was young, even though it first aired in May 2004, when he was 30.

textual_rating:
This appears to be a misquote from an interview where Mr Raab said he watched Peppa Pig with his children when they were younger.


text: The attainment gap between rich and poor pupils in grammar schools is virtually zero.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/poor-children-get-grammar-schools-seem-do-well/
title: Poor children at grammar schools seem to do well - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers at GCSE level is around three percentage points on average in grammar schools, compared to around 23 in other mainstream state schools. This might reflect more about the types of children that go to grammar schools rather than the effectiveness of the schools themselves.


text: 6.5 million migrants have registered with UK GPs in the last 10 years.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gp-registrations-uk-lancet/
title: We can’t be sure how many migrants registered with GPs in the last decade - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
According to the ONS, that’s how many new GP registrations there were in England and Wales between 2007 and 2017 where the person’s previous address was abroad. But migrants who moved between homes in the UK may have been double counted and we don’t know how many were only here short-term.


text: Iceland has declared all religions are mental disorders.
claimant: Patheos.com
claim_date: 2019-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/iceland-religions-mental-disorders-satire/
title: Iceland has not declared that all religions are mental disorders - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false and originated from satirical article online. The Evangelical Lutheran Church is the official state church of Iceland.


text: A vaccine for coronavirus was made in 2001.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dog-vaccine-coronavirus/
title: An image of a dog vaccine for a different coronavirus has gone viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The vaccine pictured is one for dogs for canine coronavirus. It does not protect against Covid-19 and is not for humans.


text: Directed energy weapons caused fires in Paradise, California, and Lahaina, Hawaii.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/directed-energy-weapons-fires-hawaii-california/
title: No evidence directed energy weapons caused fires in Hawaii and California - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to support this. The 2018 fire in California started as a result of a fallen power line. While no cause has yet been determined for the fire in Hawaii, some experts have suggested it may have started in a similar way, with dry conditions and high winds causing the fire to spread very rapidly.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-06-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Facebook post has claimed Chris Whitty received £40 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

url:
https://fullfact.org/online/chris-whitty-did-not-personally-receive-millions-pounds-bill-melinda-gates-foundation/

title:
Chris Whitty did not personally receive millions of pounds from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not true. Professor Whitty was working at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine when they received a large grant, $40 million of which went to a group of malaria research bodies of which he was Director and Principal Investigator.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ketchup-squash-fruit/
title: Ketchup, squash and fruit do not deliver positive Covid-19 results - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Ketchup, orange squash, tomatoes, strawberries and grapes all deliver positive Covid-19 lateral flow test results.

textual_rating:
We know that foods high in acid can break lateral flow tests and cause it to appear “positive”. However, research has shown that they very rarely deliver a false positive result when used properly, on people.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/war-criminals-covid/
title: People giving Covid-19 vaccines won’t be tried as war criminals - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Because of this, the healthcare workers administering vaccines will be tried as war criminals because they are breaking the Nuremberg code when it comes to consenting to being part of an experiment.

textual_rating:
Those getting the vaccine in the national roll-out are not being experimented on. They must give consent to get the vaccine which includes being given information on potential risks of both getting it and not getting it.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/rishi-sunak-pint-edited-photo/
title: Picture of Rishi Sunak’s bad pint has been Photoshopped - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows Rishi Sunak serving a badly-poured pint while a person stands behind him looking bemused.

textual_rating:
The picture has been edited. The original shows the Prime Minister holding a pint with significantly less foam, while the person behind him looks ahead.


text: Buy to let landlords get £6bn in subsidies from the government.
claimant: Jonathan Bartley
claim_date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/what-landlords-are-getting-government/
title: What landlords are getting from the government - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not clear where this figure is from. In any case, the rules on tax relief for landlords have recently changed, so the amount claimed by landlords is likely to change too.


text: More than 10,991 people have died from Covid-19 vaccines in the US so far.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/swine-flu-vaccine-1976-covid/
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Comparisons between deaths reported after swine flu and Covid-19 vaccines are misleading - Full Fact

textual_rating:
False. According to the CDC there have been 6,207 reports of death among people who received a Covid-19 vaccine in the US, although this figure is much higher when including people based outside the US or in an unknown location. Deaths reported after a Covid-19 vaccine are not necessarily caused by the vaccine.


claimant: twitter user
claim_date: 2021-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mask-transmission-graphic/
title: Figures in viral mask graphic aren’t substantiated - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The risk of transmitting Covid-19 from an unmasked person to an unmasked person is 90%. From an unmasked person to a masked person it is 30%. From a masked person to an unmasked person it is 5%. From a masked person to a masked person it is 1.5%.

textual_rating:
While evidence supports wearing masks to reduce the transmission of Covid-19, these figures are unsubstantiated.


text: This means in the UK the Covid-19 survival rate for 0-59 year olds is 99.991%.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-death-rate-under-60/
title: Covid-19 survival rate is not 99.991% for under 60s - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It doesn’t mean this. The data used only talks about England, and we can’t know for sure how many 0-59 year olds in England have had and recovered from Covid-19.


text: An official NHS poster warns that Covid-19 vaccines cause Bell’s palsy.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-01-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/bells-palsy-nhs-poster/
title: NHS poster about Bell’s palsy and vaccines is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a genuine NHS or UK government poster, and the MHRA says there’s currently no evidence of higher rates of Bell’s palsy following vaccination.


text: The flu killed 64,000 people in 2018.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/october-2020-flu-covid-pandemic/
title: This figure for flu deaths is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. 64,000 people died in January 2018 in England and Wales of all causes. Public Health England estimates that across the 2017/18 flu season there were around 22,000 deaths associated with flu in England.


text: Flu caused more deaths in the UK than Covid-19 did between 19 June and 31 July.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2020-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/flu-covid-death-certificates/
title: A graph spreading on Facebook gets it wrong on flu vs Covid deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This compares how many death certificates mentioned flu and/or pneumonia, compared to those which mentioned Covid-19. This doesn’t mean they were mentioned  as the underlying cause of death. There are almost certainly fewer deaths where flu is the underlying cause compared to Covid-19.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-costs-image-wrong/
title: This image on the costs of Brexit is very misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
GDP will be between £39 billion and £158 billion less per year as a result of on several different options for post-Brexit trade deals with the EU.

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: Ethylene oxide is the main ingredient used in antifreeze.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z
title: Chemical used to sterilise Covid-19 tests won’t turn into deadly antifreeze - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true. It is used as an intermediate agent to produce other chemicals.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/health/chemical-used-to-sterilise-covid-19-tests-wont-turn-into-deadly-antifreeze/


claimant: Nick Ferarri, LBC radio
claim_date: 2016-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/deaths-during-military-training-worse-iraq/
title: Deaths during military training: worse than Iraq? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, although some deaths may not have been directly related to the training.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since 2000, almost as many British military personnel have died in training or exercises as were killed in Iraq.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/house-building-record-levels/
title: Is house building at record levels? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Last year we saw 217,000 more homes being built in this country. That is a record—apart from one year—for the last 30 years.

textual_rating:
217,000 is how many more homes there were in England in 2016/17 than the year before. That’s the second highest increase on record over the last 26 years. 184,000 of these were newly built in 2016/17.


text: Monkeypox has been detected in all countries where there are no monkeys.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/monkeypox-map/
title: Monkeypox is being detected in countries with and without wild monkeys - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Monkeypox has been detected in countries where there aren’t wild monkeys and in countries that do have them, but people can catch monkeypox from rodents too as well as other people. It’s not yet clear why there have been outbreaks in countries where it is not endemic.


text: Leeds City Council have not signed a contract with Carillion.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2018-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/carillion-leeds-city-council/
title: Did a Labour-run council sign a PFI contract with Carillion in December? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Carillion was signed off as Leeds City Council's preferred bidder for a contract on 20 December 2017, but they did not sign the actual contract.


text: The Covid-19 death rate as a percentage of the population is 0.0024%.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pre-existing-conditions-covid/
title: Misleading claims on pre-existing conditions and Covid-19 deaths go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. The figure is calculated by dividing the number of deaths of those without pre-existing conditions by the whole population including those with existing conditions. 
This isn’t a “death rate” and shouldn’t be described as one. It excludes many people who have died outside hospitals. It’s also wrong to suggest that people with pre-existing conditions do not die of Covid-19, but just with it. Over 90% of people who die with Covid-19 have Covid-19 as an underlying cause of death.


text: As of 3 November, the UK’s coronavirus epidemic was escalating by the day.
claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2021-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/november-2021-covid-escalating/
title: Why are media outlets reporting the Covid epidemic is escalating? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
At this point, new infections were falling, but the total number of people with Covid-19 may still have been increasing.


text: Wales’s test and trace system cost £102 million.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flawed-comparisons-between-test-and-trace-systems-go-viral/
title: Flawed comparisons between test and trace systems go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This was the amount allocated by the Welsh government, but the system in Wales is also part-funded by the UK government.


claimant: Institute of Economic Affairs
claim_date: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/what-did-labour-party-members-say-about-antisemitism/
title: What did Labour Party members say about antisemitism? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, but 66% think that antisemitism in the Labour Party is a genuine problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A poll found 77% of Labour Party members think recent calls of antisemitism in the party are to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and discredit criticisms of Israel.


text: The UK could not bring in safer lorry designs until the EU legislated on the matter.
claimant: Boris Johnson MP
claim_date: 2018-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-rules-safer-lorries/
title: Do EU rules prevent safer lorries? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The EU sets rules on permitted lorry dimensions, which we have to follow. But the EU voted to allow safer lorry designs in 2014, a plan which the UK government initially opposed.


text: 50 schools in France have closed since mass reopenings last week due to new coronavirus outbreaks.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/france-school-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-05-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is true but it’s unlikely children were infected at schools.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
50 French schools have closed due to coronavirus cases, but it is likely these infections happened before schools reopened - Full Fact


text: As chancellor, Rishi Sunak raised taxes to the highest level in 70 years.
claimant: Liz Truss
claim_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/itv-conservative-leadership-debate/
title: ITV Conservative leadership debate: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The OBR estimates that in 2023/24, taxes will account for 36% of GDP, the highest level since 1949.


claimant: Campbeltown and Kintyre SNP branch
claim_date: 2018-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/snp-conservative-mp-expenses/
title: These figures on MP expenses are incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Total travel and accommodation costs for Scottish Conservative MPs were £250,427 in the last 12 months.

textual_rating:
This most likely refers to 2017/18 when Scottish Conservative MPs’ travel and accommodation expenses totalled £389,000, or £30,000 on average per MP.


text: Hydrogen boilers could cause four times as many explosions and injuries than conventional boilers.
claimant: Recharge
claim_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/hydrogen-boiler-explosion/
title: Headlines exaggerate danger of hydrogen boilers - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A model estimated that hydrogen boilers would cause more explosions and injuries if used without safety valves. With the valves, the risk from the two systems was about the same.


url: https://fullfact.org/health/royal-mail-step-away/
title: Postal workers have been told to keep their distance when delivering parcels - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is correct. Royal Mail confirmed that this is their policy.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Royal Mail has instructed staff to step away from customers when making deliveries, and if necessary to sign for items on their behalf.


text: The Taylor Review found that 58% of people working on zero hour contracts did not want more hours.
claimant: Rory Stewart
claim_date: 2018-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-people-zero-hours-contracts-want-more-hours/
title: How many people on zero hours contracts want more hours? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect, it was actually 68%, which refers to people on the contracts who’ve specified a view of their hours. It’s 57% if you include people who didn’t specify a view.
Newer official figures put the same figures at around 72% and 63% respectively.


url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-inequality-1997-2010/
title: Labour's record on inequality and social mobility: 1997 to 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct for England.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The average wait for hospital inpatient care fell from over 13 weeks to four weeks between 1997 and 2009.


claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tcw-conservative-woman-vaccine-teenage/
title: Deaths from vaccines have not overtaken Covid-19 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An increasing proportion of people will die as the Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out to younger people

textual_rating:
It is not clear what data the article draws on to reach this conclusion. However, it appears to use information from the Yellow Card scheme, which cannot provide a definitive link between vaccines and reported side effects, and misleadingly extrapolates this to the younger population.


text: Top universities make offers to 55% of white applicants, but only to 23% of black ones.
claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2015-10-26T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2015-10-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/are-white-applicants-more-likely-receive-offers-top-universities-black-applicants/

title:
Are white applicants more likely to receive offers to top universities than black applicants? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
These figures are correct, according to research looking at offers made by Russell Group universities, although they relate to applications rather than applicants. The reasons for the difference are complex - research has had conflicting findings on whether there is underlying discrimination.


url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-helicopters/
title: There is no plan to combat the new coronavirus with helicopters spraying disinfectant - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is a false rumour that has spread all over the world.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Five helicopters are going to spray the air with disinfectant overnight in order to combat the new coronavirus


text: A&E four hour targets have been missed more than 10 million times since 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-viral-image-factcheck/
title: NHS viral image factcheck - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Between 2010/11 and 2017/18, around 12 million A&E attendances in England took over four hours from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge.


text: The number of operations classed as urgent that have been cancelled twice have doubled since 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-viral-image-factcheck/
title: NHS viral image factcheck - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The number of urgent operations in England cancelled for the second time or more for non-medical reasons more than doubled between 2011/12 and 2017/18.


text: A video shows Ukraine international airport being blown up.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-air-base/
title: Video shows explosion at air base, not Ukraine’s main airport - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video in question shows an explosion at an air base in Melitopol in Ukraine, which appears to be a military base rather than an international airport serving civilians.


text: The NHS Long Term Plan will save 500,000 lives.
claimant: NHS England
claim_date: 2019-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/unclear-nhs-england-save-500000-lives/
title: It’s unclear exactly how NHS England plans to save 500,000 lives - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s unclear how this will happen. NHS England hasn’t published much detail on how it calculated this figure. We’ve asked them for more information.


claimant: Charlie Stayt on BBC Breakfast
claim_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/paterson-leadsom-amendment-vote/
title: BBC presenter corrects false claim about Owen Paterson vote - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. It was a three-line whip.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The vote on whether to accept the Committee on Standards’ report into Owen Paterson and its recommendation to suspend him from Parliament was a free vote.


text: There were 700 deaths from cancer 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 don’t know these figures yet as it is too soon after the fact. The figure for cancer seems realistic from past trends, as there were around 830 deaths caused by cancer in Ireland per month in Q1 of 2020.


text: An image of a highly patterned room is a picture from the Downing Street flat refurbishment.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/downing-street-refurbishment/
title: Images of decorated room are not the Downing Street refurbishment - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This image has been around since at least 2017, and seems to be a picture from interior designer and Soane co-founder Lulu Lytle’s previous work on her own home.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/legal-tender-cash-in-shops/
title: Shops can refuse to take cash even though it’s legal tender - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Refusing cash in a shop is an offence. No shop or store can stop you buying with cash as it’s legal tender.

textual_rating:
It is legal for shops to not accept cash. Cash being legal tender has a narrow technical definition around repaying debts.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-exports/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: exports - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You don’t have to be a member of the EU to trade with it. Switzerland is not in the EU, and it exports more per person to the EU than we do.

textual_rating:
That’s correct. Switzerland has some access to the EU’s single market. It pays financially for this and takes on certain EU laws.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/car-multiclaim-video/
title: Video in a car shares misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Up until 26 May 2021 there have been 888,196 adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines and 1,253 deaths where doctors have acknowledged that it is caused by the jab.

textual_rating:
These are the numbers of potential adverse reactions and deaths that happened around the time of vaccination, as reported by clinicians and members of the public to the MHRA Yellow Card scheme. 

This does not necessarily mean the vaccine caused that reaction or event.


text: Police officers suffered broken bones at a Bristol protest.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Bristol-police-protest-injuries/
title: Police confirm officers did not suffer broken bones at Bristol protest - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Avon and Somerset police initially said two police officers had broken bones, but have since retracted this.


text: 13 years of Conservative government has seen 2,000 GPs cut.
claimant: Wes Streeting
claim_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-workforce-appointments/
title: Four claims about GP numbers fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The 2,000 figure is actually a comparison between the GP workforce in 2023 and 2015, rather than 2010, and excludes GP trainees. The number of FTE fully qualified GPs in England did fall by just over 2,000 between September 2015 and March 2023. We don’t have directly comparable data for 2010.


text: A new study shows hydroxychloroquine can increase Covid-19 survival rates by 200%.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hydroxychloroquine-200-per-cent/
title: Hydroxychloroquine study not all that it seems - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This very small study has not been peer-reviewed and it does not show that hydroxychloroquine can effectively treat Covid-19.


text: The AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine causes more side effects than the Pfizer vaccine.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-side-effects-express/
title: Side effects from the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines are about the same - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This misunderstands a summary of the evidence from the MHRA. Clinical trial data suggests that the two vaccines’ side effects are about the same.


claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2017-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-there-one-million-people-hospital-nowhere-else-go/
title: Are there one million people in hospital with nowhere else to go? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In January there were one million people in hospital who couldn’t leave because they had nowhere to go.

textual_rating:
We’ve asked for the source of this claim, but it seems to be incorrect. In January there were 7,100 people in hospital at the end of the month who were medically fit to leave but hadn’t been discharged. Across the whole month there were 197,000 delayed days when patients fit to leave weren’t discharged.


text: The United Kingdom has won the second-most number of Nobel Prizes after the United States.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/how-many-nobel-prizes-has-uk-won/
title: How many Nobel Prizes has the UK won? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct. There are lots of different ways to count it too. If we look at Nobel Prizes per person, the UK is down to 10th.


text: Research shows that people do not follow self-isolation rules because they cannot afford to.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2020-11-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/labour-11-percent-not-self-isolate/
title: Why are people not self-isolating? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Based on the available evidence, this is not a major factor reported by people who do not self-isolate correctly. Just 8.9% said that they broke the rules in order to go to work.


text: Covid-19 tests detect any coronavirus, not just the one that causes Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/PCR-test-coronavirus/
title: A Covid-19 diagnostic test won’t pick up other coronaviruses - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Covid-19 diagnostic tests are not perfect, but they won’t misdiagnose other coronaviruses as the virus which causes Covid-19.


claimant: Independent SAGE
claim_date: 2020-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/independent-SAGE-children-infection-evidence/
review_date: 2020-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Recent UK and international data suggests that children are in fact as likely as adults to become infected and carry the virus.

title:
Claim by Independent SAGE about Covid-19 infections in children is based on unclear evidence - Full Fact

textual_rating:
We haven’t seen reliable and consistent evidence that backs up this claim. Reviews of the literature to date suggest that children are less likely to become infected and carry the virus. More evidence from antibody studies is needed to quantify the exact transmission risk from children.


text: £30 billion is lost to tax fraud.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/comparing-benefit-and-tax-fraud/
title: There’s no easy way to compare benefit and tax fraud. - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2017/18 HMRC estimated the ‘tax gap’ (money that should have been collected in taxes but wasn’t) at around £35 billion per year. Not all of this is due to fraud.


text: The number of school places in the country has expanded by 800,000 since 2010.
claimant: Damian Hinds
claim_date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/825000-more-english-school-places-2010/
title: 825,000 more English school places since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, they've increased by around 825,000 in primary and secondary schools in England since 2010.


text: In 1983, US children got 10 vaccines and the autism rate was 1 in 10,000.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccines-dont-cause-autism/
review_date: 2019-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Autism prevalence is up but scientists have consistently found that vaccines don’t cause it - Full Fact

textual_rating:
We don’t know exactly how prevalent autism was in 1983. There were around five vaccines involving 11 doses recommended for children in the US back then.


claimant: Twitter
claim_date: 2023-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ulez-exemption-places-of-worship/
title: Visits to places of worship are not exempt from London’s ULEZ charges - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Journeys to a house of worship for Muslim, Sikh, Jewish and other minority religions for the purposes of prayer are exempt from London’s ULEZ charges.

textual_rating:
There is no specific exemption for those driving to places of worship, although a temporary exemption is in place for minibuses providing community transport services.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-01-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/magna-carta-article-42/
title: “Article 42” of Magna Carta only existed for a short time - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Article 42 of the Magna Carta 'enshrines' the right to free movement at home and across borders in peacetime.

textual_rating:
Wrong. This provision existed in 1215 but it's not part of the most recently signed Magna Carta or modern law.


text: The country wants no deal.
claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2019-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/does-public-want-no-deal/
title: Does the public want no deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some polls show no deal as the most preferred Brexit option. Others show remaining. It all depends which options respondents are surveyed about and how the question is asked.


text: Smallpox is the only disease eradicated by humans.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/smallpox-eradication-monkeypox-rinderpest/
title: Smallpox not the only infectious disease eradicated by humans - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim is false. At least one other infectious disease, rinderpest, has been eradicated by humans.


text: Individual EU countries could veto a deal on the UK leaving the EU.
claimant: Reuters
claim_date: 2016-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-veto-brexit-deal/
title: Who can veto a Brexit deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Individual countries can’t veto a treaty governing the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, but could veto a treaty establishing Britain’s new relationship with the EU.


text: Half of British businesses are struggling to recruit the skilled labour they need.
claimant: Vince Cable
claim_date: 2017-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-british-businesses-struggling-recruitment/
title: Are British businesses struggling with recruitment? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
52% of businesses surveyed by Lloyds Bank in June were struggling to recruit skilled labour, although we don't know the reasons why. We haven't been able to check the methods behind the survey directly.


text: SARS-CoV-2 variants don’t exist.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-virus-variants-exist/
title: Covid virus variants are real - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
All viruses mutate over time, and SARS-CoV-2 is no exception. We know they exist because of genomic sequencing, and there are a number of  Variants of Concern currently identified as such by the UK government.


text: A sign at a vaccine clinic urges parents to donate their children’s organs.
claimant: Right Said Fred
claim_date: 2021-11-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-organ-donation-children/
title: Parents aren’t being urged to donate their children’s organs at vaccine appointments - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true, and the picture being shared has been manipulated to change the text on the sign, which originally read “Covid vaccines here” in Spanish.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-effectiveness-lancet/
title: The Lancet didn’t say Covid-19 vaccines are only 1% effective - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 vaccines’ effectiveness dropped from 98% to just 1% among a wider, younger population. This information appeared in the Lancet medical journal.

textual_rating:
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines both reported over 90% effectiveness in trials. A subsequent Lancet article argued these relative risk reduction figures should be published alongside absolute risk reduction figures, a totally different measurement which the article said were around 1 to 2 percentage points for the vaccines. The latest data relating to the Omicron variant does show vaccine effectiveness reduces significantly over time however.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/three-president-deaths-refuse-vaccines/
title: No evidence three presidents died because they refused vaccines for their nations - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The presidents of Haiti, Tanzania and Zambia died ‘unexpectedly’, and this is linked to the fact they refused the Covid-19 vaccines for their nations.

textual_rating:
The president of Zambia did not refuse the vaccines, and died at age 97 of pneumonia. The president of Tanzania died of a heart condition. The president of Haiti was assassinated, but did not refuse the vaccinations.


text: Monkeypox is biological warfare being unleashed onto the public by the WHO, IMF and Bill Gates.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/is-monkeypox-biological-warfare/
title: No evidence monkeypox is an agent of biological warfare - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence the current outbreak was caused by biological warfare. Monkeypox has been included in textbooks about potential biological warfare weapons.


claimant: Campaign for an Independent Britain
claim_date: 2014-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/does-dropping-human-rights-laws-require-leaving-eu-too/
title: Does dropping human rights laws require leaving the EU too? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
EU law means that the UK will be covered by human rights laws even if we scrap the Human Rights Act.

textual_rating:
This is correct. The EU now has a stand-alone system of human rights law, which would remain in place even if we scrapped the older, separate system set up by the Human Rights Act and European Convention on Human Rights.


text: The government has proposed banning unions and introducing a “996 working hour system”.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/cabinet-office-ban-trade-union-996-working-system/
title: The government hasn’t proposed banning unions - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government has not opened a consultation on these changes to the law, nor are they real proposals. Images shared online suggesting otherwise have been digitally manipulated.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-animal-infection/
title: Animals and the origins of the new coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A World Health Organisation representative said that as long as people eat meat, there is going to be some risk of infection.

textual_rating:
Dr Gauden Galea, the WHO representative in China, did say this. It was aired by CNN during a news story about the role of wild animals in the new coronavirus outbreak.


url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-inequality-1997-2010/
title: Labour's record on inequality and social mobility: 1997 to 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In 1999 the Labour government agreed a £2 billion settlement for miners suffering from bronchitis and emphysema. By 2005, 350,000 had received compensation.

textual_rating:
The government did agree this settlement, as part of the liability they took on for British Coal. By January 2005, 172,000 claims had been settled and another 180,000 had received a final offer. In total the government expected payouts to miners for industrial injuries (not only from COPD) to total around £7.5 billion.


claimant: Lucy Powell
claim_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/few-pupils-are-both-grammar-schools-and-free-school-meals/
title: Few pupils are both at grammar schools and on free school meals - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pupils who both attend grammar schools and are entitled to free school meals represent one out of every thousand pupils generally.


text: Deprived areas are facing the most significant council cuts.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-most-significant-council-budget-cuts-deprived-areas/
title: Are the most significant council budget cuts in deprived areas? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Councils that are most dependent on government grants—those which are poorest or in inner London—have seen their budgets reduced by more than other councils between 2009/10 and 2016/17.


text: Last month MPs voted against removing the "tampon tax".
claimant: Buzzfeed
claim_date: 2015-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-mps-vote-against-removing-tampon-tax/
title: Did MPs vote against removing the "tampon tax"? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs didn't vote on whether to remove the tax (which can't be done without changing EU law). The amendment they voted against was on whether the government should have to set out a "road map" for how it will negotiate with the EU to get sanitary products exempt from VAT.


claimant: The Sunday Telegraph
claim_date: 2019-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-long-do-child-killers-serve-prison/
title: How long do child killers serve in prison? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under new government plans, murderers of pre-school children will be subject to whole-life sentences for the first time.

textual_rating:
It’s already possible for people who murder children to be given whole-life sentences, but usually only in certain cases.


text: There are almost 2,000 more doctors in general practice than in 2019.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-workforce-appointments/
title: Four claims about GP numbers fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is based on the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs including trainees in England, which rose by about 1,910 between December 2019 and March 2023. However trainee GPs may not see as many patients as fully qualified GPs, and the number of FTE fully qualified GPs has fallen.


claimant: Dr Jenny Harries
claim_date: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/government-statement-covid-test-lab-immensa/
review_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Immensa lab, which may have given more than 43,000 inaccurate PCR test results, was fully accredited before being appointed by the government.

title:
Government hasn’t explained differing statements on lab accused of inaccurate Covid-19 results - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This was originally stated by a government spokesperson, however it later emerged that it was untrue. The government told Full Fact that the lab was in the “early stages” of accreditation, but did not explain the discrepancy between the two statements.


text: The coronation cost £250 million of ‘our money’.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/King-Charles-inheritance/
title: Claims about King Charles’s inheritance need context - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There has been no official figure for the cost of the coronation. Estimates have been reported to be between £50-100 million.


text: New buyers now need an additional £9,000 for a deposit.
claimant: Chris Elmore
claim_date: 2023-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-average-first-time-buyer-deposit/
review_date: 2023-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Keir Starmer’s claim about first-time buyers’ deposits based on estimate of future increases - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The £9,000 figure is a forward-looking estimate from a consultancy, which appears to project the extra savings first-time buyers might require for a “typical” deposit by 2030.


text: 482 Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the UK on 19 April, 508 on 20 April and 646 on 21 April.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/easter-bank-holiday-covid-deaths/
title: High reported Covid-19 deaths due to Easter holiday backlog - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, but this reflects deaths occurring over the Easter Bank Holiday being processed, rather than the genuine level of daily Covid-19 deaths.


claimant: Karen Bradley MP
claim_date: 2017-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/taxes-national-insurance-and-self-employed/
title: Taxes, national insurance and the self-employed - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: We’re not sure what analysis this is based on and we’ve asked for the source.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Self-employed people will only pay more tax after this budget if they have taxable profits over £32,000, once you take every change to tax and welfare policies into account.


text: The head of Ofsted wants schools to discriminate on the basis of race when hiring teachers.
claimant: Edward Malnick
claim_date: 2015-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/factcheck-can-white-teachers-be-discriminated-against/
title: Factcheck: Can white teachers be discriminated against? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Sir Michael Wilshaw said that in some cases, he would hire an equally qualified person from an ethnic minority over another. But in law, this isn't 'discrimination'.


claimant: Buried News
claim_date: 2016-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/daily-mail-headine-comparison-to-nazis/
title: The Daily Mail, “enemies of the people”, and a Nazi newspaper - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A recent Daily Mail headline bears an uncanny resemblance to the front page of a Nazi newspaper from 1933. Both papers branded particular judges as ‘Enemies of the People’.

textual_rating:
The German headline reads "traitors of the people". The men depicted in the 1933 newspaper weren’t judges, and the translation in the caption is wrong. They were people who had their citizenship revoked by the Nazi regime.


text: If you got the Covid-19 vaccine you probably won’t be able to get pregnant.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/roe-vs-wade-covid-vaccine-pregnancy/
title: Covid vaccines won’t stop people getting pregnant - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is the case. There is no evidence or theoretically plausible reason why having the vaccine can stop you getting pregnant.


claimant: David Lammy MP
claim_date: 2018-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/bme-students-oxford/
title: Black and ethnic minority students at the University of Oxford - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, for undergraduate students from the UK who took up their place between 2015 and 2017.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A quarter of Oxford colleges did not admit a single black student in a whole year group at least once between 2015 and 2017.


text: A document written in 1919 shows a list of “Communist Rules For Revolution”.
claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/communist-rules-for-revolution-list-hoax/
title: List of ‘Communist Rules for Revolution’ has been widely debunked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s little evidence to suggest this is a genuine Communist document, and the list has widely been described as a hoax.


text: Fewer knife crime offenders are facing jail.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/knife-possession-prison-sentences/
title: It’s very unlikely that fewer knife offenders are facing jail - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is very likely to be wrong. It’s actually likely that more offenders are facing jail for offences involving possession or threatening with a knife. This claim is based on provisional figures which don’t include all cases that will result in jail sentences.


text: The government is delivering the fastest wage growth in years.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rishi-sunak-wage-growth/
title: Wages are growing faster than before the pandemic, but have fallen in real terms - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK is currently seeing nominal wage growth consistently higher than before the pandemic. However, when looking at real wages, which are adjusted for inflation, growth is falling.


text: The EU did not help Britain during the Falklands War, and instead sent weapons to Argentina.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/european-community-supported-britain-during-falklands-war/
title: The European Community supported Britain during the Falklands War - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The EC (the predecessor of the EU) applied an arms embargo and an import ban on Argentina.


text: West Yorkshire Police is investigating the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/west-yorkshire-police-not-investigating-covid-19-vaccine-programme/
title: West Yorkshire Police is not investigating the Covid-19 vaccine programme - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. A reference number was created following reports of alleged criminality but West Yorkshire Police has confirmed that  no crimes have been recorded, no criminal enquiries are ongoing and there are no investigations relating to this report or any other alleged criminality relating to the vaccine program.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/rishi-sunak-homeless-veterans-winter/
title: No evidence that Rishi Sunak said homeless veterans could ‘easily manage’ winter - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: We can find no evidence that Mr Sunak has ever spoken these words.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Rishi Sunak once said homeless veterans could “easily manage” winter thanks to the survival training they received in the armed forces.


text: People who snore could be entitled to £156 in benefits.
claimant: Kent and Sussex Courier
claim_date: 2022-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/snoring-sleep-apnoea-benefits/
title: Snoring doesn’t mean you’re eligible for £156 benefits a week - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This would only be true if snoring was a symptom of an underlying condition such as sleep apnoea, and even then only if it severely affected someone’s ability to do daily tasks and affects their mobility.


text: Bald men are twice as likely to suffer from severe Covid-19.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2021-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/baldness-genetics-covid/
title: It’s not clear whether bald people get more ill with Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Being older raises the risk of severe Covid-19, but based on the research we have so far, it is not yet clear whether baldness itself has any effect.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/police-track-location-999-call/
title: Police can’t automatically track your location if you press 55 during a 999 call - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you call 999 but aren’t able to speak, press 55. This means emergency services will be able to trace your location through new technology.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Pressing 55 during a call to 999 is part of the police’s ‘Silent Solution’ system, designed to help people who are unable to speak when contacting police, but call handlers are not automatically able to determine your location using it.


text: A huge asteroid is set to hit the Earth this week.
claimant: joe.co.uk
claim_date: 2023-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/asteroid-nasa-collide-earth-joe/
title: Large asteroid is not set to collide with the Earth - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. NASA says the asteroid is small and that there is no danger of it hitting the Earth.


text: The Covid-19 test is the vaccine and if you get tested you have been vaccinated.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-test-not-vaccine/
title: A Covid-19 vaccine is not being administered via Covid-19 nasal swab tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not the case. Vaccines have to go through many rounds of testing before they can be rolled out, and none have got to this stage yet in the UK. You must consent to have a vaccine in the UK.


text: Conservative leadership candidates have made £200 billion of unfunded tax and spending commitments.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/conservative-leadership-2022-fact-checked/
title: Conservative leadership contest: four early claims fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is calculated by adding up pledges made by all the candidates, including the same pledges made by multiple candidates multiple times. For example, the cost of a reduction in corporation tax is counted at least five times.


text: Under the Conservative government 4 million people have been taken out of income tax altogether.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/4-million-people-taken-out-income-tax/
title: 4 million people taken out of income tax - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Increases to the personal allowance mean about 4 million fewer people had to pay income tax in 2015/16 than did in 2010/11. Changes to the threshold in 2017 are expected to further reduce the number of people paying income tax.


text: CNN used a photo of one of the vaccine recipients back in October.
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
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It did not. CNN’s website has rolling news video at the top of some of its articles reflecting the current news, not the news at the time of that particular article’s publication.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/solar-installations-vat-eu/
title: Chris Bryant wrong on 0% EU VAT for heat pumps - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Thanks to Brexit, the UK is no longer constrained by EU law, so homeowners having equipment such as solar panels, heat pumps and insulation installed will no longer pay 5% VAT; they will pay zero

textual_rating:
It is correct to say that within the EU, the UK would not have been able to cut VAT on heat pumps and insulation to zero, though it would now be able to on solar panels, following new EU legislation due to be introduced next month. When it was an EU member, the UK was prevented from reducing VAT on solar panels by the European Court of Justice.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/how-much-does-uk-recover-health-costs-eu/
title: How much does the UK recover in health costs from the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK paid out £674 million in health costs to European countries, but received only £49 million in return. Addressing this could “transform the financial situation of the NHS”.

textual_rating:
The figures are broadly correct for 2015, although addressing this situation would in itself only have a marginal impact on the financial situation of the NHS.


text: Michelle Donelan, who was education secretary for two days, is due £470,000 in severance pay.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/severance-pay-michelle-donelan/
title: A Cabinet minister was not entitled to £470,000 severance pay after two days on the job - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. She is entitled to £16,876 in severance pay, but has said she won’t be taking it. £470,000 is much more than all the recently resigning ministers, including the Prime Minister, are due in total.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2018-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/what-happened-violent-crime-london-2008/
title: What happened to violent crime in London since 2008? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under Boris Johnson’s tenure as Mayor of London, the number of murders was under 100 a year for multiple years.

textual_rating:
We haven’t seen figures to back this up. Available figures are for homicides, which include more than just murders. They only show one year when there were fewer than 100 murders.


text: 96.3% of the Italy’s Covid-19 deaths were actually caused by other diseases.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sgarbi-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-05-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
No, Italy hasn’t recounted its coronavirus data and found that most died from other diseases - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Official data shows that 96.3% of Covid-19 patients had other health conditions when they died.


text: Migration has amounted to 80% of UK population growth.
claimant: Iain Duncan Smith
claim_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/migration-population-growth-80-one-million/
title: Migration drives the majority of UK population growth—exactly how much is debatable - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This combines a rough estimate of both migration to and from the UK and children born to immigrant parents. Without counting children, migration directly accounts for 60% of UK population growth since 2000.


text: The last Labour government made 1.4 million homes habitable.
claimant: Chi Onwurah MP
claim_date: 2018-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-non-decent-homes/
title: Did Labour make 1.4 million “non-decent” homes fit to live in? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Between the introduction of Labour’s “Decent Homes Programme” in 2000 and 2009, an estimated 1.4 million “non-decent” social sector homes in England received work to make them habitable.


text: The Great Reset is not a conspiracy theory and the World Economic Forum reveals its agenda.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/great-reset-conspiracy-theory/
title: The Great Reset: What is it? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The World Economic Forum website does discuss a ‘Great Reset’ many times on its website, but many claims about the plan are false and amount to a conspiracy theory.


text: The OECD has ranked the UK as the third highest for education funding.
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:
This includes private spending, so isn’t an accurate reflection of government funding.  In terms of public spending on education, as a percentage of GDP, the UK ranked joint-fourteenth out of 34 OECD countries that provided data in 2015. Education spending in the UK is devolved.


text: We spend nearly £50 billion on debt interest in the UK.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/does-government-spend-50-billion-debt-interest-payments/
title: Does the government spend £50 billion on debt interest payments? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government’s debt interest bill was £48 billion in 2016/17, although it effectively paid some of that back to itself through the Bank of England. The government actually spent about £39 billion.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-hospital-discharge-numbers/
title: Do Rishi Sunak’s claims about hospital discharge funding stack up? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Part of £14 billion in extra funding recently announced for health and social care will go into a new discharge fund to speed up hospital patient discharge.

textual_rating:
Number 10 hasn’t explained what funding Mr Sunak was referring to, but the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) says £750 million of funding recently set aside to speed up discharge is not part of the additional £14.1 billion in health and social care funding announced in the Autumn Statement.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lost-dog-facebook-hoax/
title: Hoax lost dog picture circulating online for months - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows a “depressed” dog that has been found and there is an active appeal for information about its owners.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is a genuine appeal. The same picture has been used in similar posts around the world for months, and there are a number of other indications it is a hoax.


text: Covid vaccines can’t stop people spreading the virus.
claimant: Lionel Shriver
claim_date: 2021-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lionel-shriver-spectator-vaccines/
title: Lionel Shriver is wrong to say that Covid-19 vaccines can’t stop the virus spreading - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. Covid vaccines have prevented millions of infections—and the subsequent infections that would have come from them. They also reduce the risk of transmission in ‘breakthrough’ infections.


text: Energy bills in France are 50% of those in the UK.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensions-energy-bills-France-UK/
title: Energy bills, retirement age and pensions in the UK compared to France - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The regulated unit price of electricity in France is about 53% of that in Great Britain, while the price of gas is about the same. So it’s plausible that an electricity-only household in France might pay around 50% that of an equivalent in the UK, excluding any cash benefits that may be available to support people with their bills—and not taking account of how much energy people actually use.


text: A road sign reading “You are Now Leaving District 5” has been put up in Oxford.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Oxford-District-5-sign-fake/
title: A road sign showing Oxford is being divided into ‘districts’ is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Oxfordshire County Council has confirmed no such sign has been put up on its roads, and there are no plans to introduce them. The sign appears to be digitally altered, and the original image was taken in London.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/monkeypox-shingles-pfizer-covid/
title: No evidence shingles ‘renamed’ as monkeypox is a Pfizer vaccine side effect - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Shingles has been renamed monkeypox. Herpes zoster, the virus which causes shingles, is included in Pfizer’s list of adverse events for the Covid-19 vaccine, indicating monkeypox is caused by the vaccine.

textual_rating:
Shingles and monkeypox are caused by two different viruses. Herpes zoster does appear in Pfizer’s list of adverse events, but there is no evidence to suggest  the vaccine is causing monkeypox.


claimant: GB News
claim_date: 2022-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gb-news-surgeon-covid-vaccines/
title: A surgeon made several incorrect claims about Covid-19 vaccine on GB News - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 vaccines are not safe because people are dying and getting seriously ill as a result of receiving them.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Although there have been some extremely rare cases of death or serious illness caused by the Covid-19 vaccines, it is much safer to be vaccinated.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/clive-myrie-journalist-not-racially-attacked-ukraine/
title: BBC says story Clive Myrie racially attacked in Ukraine ‘completely false’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The journalist Clive Myrie was subject to a racist attack by Ukrainians while reporting from Ukraine.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/war-criminals-covid/
title: People giving Covid-19 vaccines won’t be tried as war criminals - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We don’t know the Covid-19 vaccines are safe because the trial of them is still underway and won’t finish until 2023 so anyone getting the vaccine is being experimented on.

textual_rating:
Multiple phases of trials have shown the approved vaccines to be safe and effective. Ongoing monitoring and further trials does not disprove this.


text: Nuclear weapons don’t exist.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nuclear-weapons-are-real/
title: Nuclear weapons do exist - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Their long-term development, their use in 1945 on Japanese cities and the aftermath of that, and decades of research proves that nuclear weapons are real.


claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/how-immigration-law-changed-commonwealth-citizens/
title: How immigration law changed for Commonwealth citizens - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Theresa May changed the law to remove protection from Commonwealth citizens and Diane Abbott voted against the change.

textual_rating:
Diane Abbott did vote against the law that changed the rules for Commonwealth citizens. The government disputes that this removes protection.


text: The government has 'cut the deficit in half'.
claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2014-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/factcheck-has-budget-deficit-been-halved/
title: Factcheck: Has the budget deficit been halved? - Full Fact
review_date: 2014-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The deficit as a percentage of GDP this year is forecast to be half its 2009/10 value, but this is not the case for the absolute value of the deficit.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/2021-council-tax-boris-johnson/
title: Boris Johnson repeats misleading council tax comparison - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
On average, Labour councils charge you £93 more in band D than Conservative councils, and Liberal Democrat councils charge you £120 more.

textual_rating:
Labour and Liberal Democrat councils have higher band D rates than Conservative councils, but this measure is misleading. Labour councils charge lower council tax on average than Conservative councils.


text: No English artists have agreed to perform at King Charles III’s coronation concert.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronation-concert-English-artists/
title: British artists are due to perform at King Charles’s coronation concert - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The concert’s lineup so far does include multiple artists from England, and a singer from Wales.


claimant: Richard Holden MP
claim_date: 2021-06-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labours-record-on-unemployment/
title: Labour’s record on unemployment - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Every time the Labour party has been in government, it has left unemployment higher than when it came in.

textual_rating:
Only two of Labour’s periods in government are covered by the most recent comparable data, but this is not quite correct looking at the data we have over all times Labour was in government. Unemployment fell during Ramsay MacDonald’s first term in 1924. Labour was also part of a war time coalition during which unemployment fell.


text: A poll shows that 80% of British people want to quit the EU.
claimant: The Express
claim_date: 2015-01-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/factcheck-daily-express-eu-poll-biased-and-wide-mark/
title: Factcheck: Daily Express EU "poll" is biased and wide of the mark - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This "ballot" says nothing about the state of nationwide opinion. Recent professional polls show that around 36% to 48% of people support leaving.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/snake-toilet-venomous-bitten-finger/
title: Posts about venomous snakes in UK toilets are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A couple has found a Western diamondback rattlesnake hiding inside the rim of their toilet, in various locations around the UK.

textual_rating:
False. The police have described this as a hoax post. The snake in the picture is not a rattlesnake and is not venomous. A separate photo included with some of the posts shows a man injured by a snake in 2019 in the US.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2020-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/false-post-boris-johnson-hospital-official-secrets/
review_date: 2020-04-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is incorrect. It is based on a satirical blog post.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Prime Minister may not have had Covid-19 and when he was admitted to hospital staff were asked to sign the Official Secrets Act and two who refused were dismissed.

title:
False posts that suggest Boris Johnson didn’t have Covid-19 are based on a blog post now labelled as satire - Full Fact


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/world-economic-forum-cashless-15-minute-central-bank/
title: The World Economic Forum isn’t planning the ‘end of national sovereignty’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Great Reset, the WEF, the UN and Agenda 21/2030 advocate for the end of national sovereignty, universal basic income, a world social credit system, ending of privately owned property and confining people to 15 minute cities, amongst other things.

textual_rating:
Although the WEF has published articles on some of these topics, it is not planning for them and although influential, it has no authority to enact any of these policies. There’s no evidence the UN advocates for these policies either and they aren’t mentioned in Agendas 21 or 2030.


claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/other-peoples-facemasks/
title: Protecting others is a reason to wear a facemask - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A post suggests that if masks work, it doesn't matter if other people aren't wearing them as long as you are.

textual_rating:
Masks can sometimes play a role in protecting the wearer, but another important action of mask wearing is to reduce the release of infected particles from an infected wearer. This ‘source control’ effect can help to protect others.


text: An image from Parliament shows that no Labour MPs turned up to a debate about the NHS.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-adjournment-debate/
title: A nearly empty House of Commons may not be a sign that no one cares - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The image appears to be real, but it comes from an adjournment debate. It is common for MPs (of all parties) to not attend adjournment debates, because they do not involve voting on decisions.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/banana-ripening/
title: You can’t tell how a banana was ripened by looking at it - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A banana has been chemically ripened if it is brown spotted with a green stalk and naturally ripened if the stalk is black.

textual_rating:
False. There is no consistent way to visually tell “naturally” and “chemically” ripened bananas apart. Both can develop these characteristics.


text: Theresa May refuses to allow the very best international doctors to come here to care for our sick.
claimant: Jonathan Ashworth
claim_date: 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-vacancies/
title: Are there 100,000 vacancies in the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government limits the number of Tier 2 visas it grants each month. These are what non-EEA medical staff need to work in the UK. Nurses get priority access to these visas, but there are reports of some doctors being refused them due to government caps.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/poor-children-do-worse-areas-have-grammar-schools/
title: Poor children do worse in areas that have grammar schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct, although London is well ahead of the rest of England as well.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pupils on free school meals do far worse in GCSEs in selective Kent compared to non-selective London.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/permanent-secretary-pension-age/
title: This post about the decision to increase the state pension age needs some context - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The civil servant responsible for increasing the state pension age to 67 is retiring at 61 with a £1.8 million pension pot.

textual_rating:
The former-permanent secretary to the Department for Work and Pensions, who oversaw part of the process of increasing the state pension age to 68, did retire at 61 with this pension pot. But civil servants don’t make policy decisions, meaning he didn’t decide to raise the age himself.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/red-cross-hasnt-banned-blood-donation-from-vaccinated-people/
title: Red Cross hasn’t banned blood donation from vaccinated people - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Red Cross says people vaccinated against Covid-19 cannot donate blood plasma because the vaccine wipes out antibodies.

textual_rating:
False. The American Red Cross has stopped accepting donations of plasma containing Covid-19 antibodies from anyone as it has enough supply. It says people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 can still give blood.


text: HMRC employs just 522 staff to tackle tens of billions of tax evasion by the super-rich.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/benefit-fraud-tax-inspectors-numbers/
title: Do benefit fraud investigators outnumber super-rich tax inspectors 8:1? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It employed around 500 staff in March 2017 to work with taxpayers with assets over £10m, and another 500 staff to investigate the tax affairs of taxpayers with assets over £1 million, or an income over £150,000 a year. In 2016, they were estimated to account for around £2bn in lost tax revenue.


text: Australia has approved an application to forcibly vaccinate its citizens via ‘chemtrails’.
claimant: worldtruth.tv
claim_date: 2016-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-chemtrails-australia/
title: Australian citizens aren’t being forcibly vaccinated via ‘chemtrails’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on misreporting around an application, submitted to the Australian government in 2013, to hold a clinical trial involving up to 1,000 participants in order to investigate a genetically-modified cholera vaccine. Participants took the vaccine as a drink—it had nothing to do with ‘chemtrails’.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/infosys-rwanda-rishi-sunak/
title: Rishi Sunak’s in-laws’ company isn’t registered in Rwanda - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Infosys, the company owned by Rishi Sunak’s in-laws is an IT and digital solution company registered in Rwanda. The UK outsources many of its immigration processes to the company.

textual_rating:
That company is not registered in Rwanda. It has had several government contracts, but none appear to be to do with immigration.


text: We spend more on national debt interest payments than we do on education, transport or the police.
claimant: Ben Wallace
claim_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/interest-payments-national-debt/
title: Interest payments on the national debt - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong on education: the government spends £84 billion on education compared to £33 billion on debt interest. Police and transport spending is lower.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/how-much-is-the-Royal-Family-worth/
title: The Royal Family doesn’t have £73 billion to ‘share’ around the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The British monarchy is worth roughly £73 billion, which could be shared out between the UK’s households.

textual_rating:
This figure appears to be based on estimates of the value of the Royal Family’s assets but also the value of the monarchy’s brand, and so it wouldn’t be able to be liquidated and shared out as suggested.


text: The UK is performing 240,000 Covid-19 tests a day.
claimant: Nadhim Zahawi
claim_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/question-time-testing-figures/
title: Lots of people are getting confused over testing figures - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is close to both the highest figure for daily tests performed and current theoretical lab capacity. The number actually performed on most days in the latest data is slightly lower.


claimant: Toby Young
claim_date: 2018-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/bme-students-oxford/
title: Black and ethnic minority students at the University of Oxford - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
BME students make up 17.9% of all British Oxford undergraduates. That’s pretty close to the percentage of BME people among 17-24-year-olds in England and Wales – 18.3%.

textual_rating:
Correct, for undergraduate students from the UK who took up their place in 2017, and looking at those in the 2011 census who would be between 17 and 24 today.


text: There is a 92,000 legacy backlog.
claimant: Today
claim_date: 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/small-boat-interception-rates/
review_date: 2023-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
How many people have been intercepted while attempting to cross the Channel in small boats? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This figure refers to the number of asylum applications made before 28 June 2022 which were outstanding as of 30 November 2022. The number of these cases which remain outstanding has since fallen to 74,436 as of 28 May 2023.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2019-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pictures-parliament-MP-debate/
title: Pictures of Parliament don’t tell the whole story - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The House of Commons was crowded for debates on MP expenses and pay, but much emptier for debates and votes on topics such as education for refugees and knife crime.

textual_rating:
While we’ve not been able to verify all these images, at least one, claiming to show the house during a debate on expenses, is actually from a debate on higher education. There are a number of reasons MP attendance may be low in debates.


text: The percentage of judges that are female hasn't changed much in the past year.
claimant: Legal Cheek
claim_date: 2016-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/diversity-judges-statistics/
title: Diversity among judges: a mixed picture - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Overall, there has been an increase from 25% in 2015 to 28% in 2016. But it's correct that there hasn't been any change in female representation among the most senior judges in the past year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/royal-mail-hoax-texts/
title: Beware of scam texts claiming to be from Royal Mail - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The messages are almost certainly scams.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
These images of text messages claiming to be from Royal Mail, asking for a payment to deliver a parcel, seem to be scams.


claimant: Shami Chakrabarti
claim_date: 2018-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/labour-policy-irish-backstop/
title: Does Labour's Brexit policy mean no Irish backstop? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Labour Party wouldn't have problems with the Irish backstop because it wants the whole of the United Kingdom to be in a permanent customs union with the EU.

textual_rating:
Labour’s proposed Brexit policy may avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic (removing the need for the Irish backstop) in theory. But it seems extremely unlikely that the EU would accept those proposals alongside everything else Labour wants from Brexit.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kidnapping-wishaw-scotland-police/
title: Police find ‘no criminality’ after reports of ‘child snatching’ in Lanarkshire - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Local police have investigated these reports and found “no criminality”.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There have been three recent incidents of attempted kidnapping of children in the Wishaw area of Lanarkshire.


text: The court found there was no actual bias in the awarding of a contract to Public First.
claimant: Michael Gove
claim_date: 2021-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/michael-gove-public-first/
title: Was Michael Gove right about court ruling over bias in contracts? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The question the court was asked to determine was whether the award of the contract was unlawful because of “apparent bias”. The judgment explicitly states that there was no suggestion of actual bias (it was not an issue that the court was asked to address). The court ruled there was apparent bias and therefore the award of the contract was unlawful.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-russian-soldiers-dancing/
title: Video doesn’t show Russian and Ukrainian soldiers dancing together after invasion - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows Russian and Ukrainian troops dancing together, which proves the invasion is being falsely represented by the media.

textual_rating:
The video appears to predate the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and there is no proof the soldiers are from two different forces. .


text: £1 per litre of road fuel is taken in taxes.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/road-fuel-petrol-diesel-taxes/
title: Social media posts overestimate how much tax is on petrol and diesel - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is too high in fuel duty and VAT. These account for between 80p and 90p per litre of fuel sold, depending on how much you pay for fuel.


text: If we Vote Leave... We will control our borders.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-immigration/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on immigration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A vote to leave doesn’t necessarily mean we will control immigration. It depends on what the government chooses to do with immigration policy, and what arrangements it negotiates.


text: The number of people from disadvantaged backgrounds going to university has gone down.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/young-peoples-participation-higher-education/
title: Young people's participation in higher education - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are a number of ways to measure what a ‘disadvantaged pupil’ is, but on all UCAS measures young students from disadvantaged groups in England are more likely to go to university now than any other year on record. The picture may be different for other types of students, such as mature students or part-time students.


claimant: Tim Loughton
claim_date: 2023-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/suella-braverman-asylum-backlog-labour/
title: The asylum backlog is far higher now than when Labour left government - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The current asylum backlog is not a record because under Labour in 2006 there was a backlog of 400,000 cases.

textual_rating:
This claim appears to compare two different sets of figures which are not directly comparable. Although we’ve not found figures for the total asylum backlog dating back that far, the number of initial decision cases waiting to be resolved as of December was 132,182, up from 6,400 in 2006. The 400,000 figure appears to refer to the ‘legacy caseload’, which included duplicated, withdrawn and resolved cases.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Twickenham-Covid-19-vaccine-claims-false/
title: Hecklers at Twickenham Stadium vaccine drive spout false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence that any of the Covid-19 vaccines cause autoimmune diseases.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Vaccination causes the immune system to start attacking the body when the person comes into contact with coronaviruses.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-pictures-titan-submersible-debris/
title: Images falsely claim to show Titanic sub debris - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Images show debris of the OceanGate submersible that went missing during an expedition to the Titanic wreckage.

textual_rating:
Some of the images are likely AI-generated and one was taken at the Titanic wreck site many years before the submersible imploded.


text: Wealthy professionals are most likely to drink regularly.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pro-sesh-ional-classes-do-wealthy-people-drink-more-regularly/
title: The Pro-sesh-ional classes: Do wealthy people drink more regularly? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Broadly correct. We don’t have the exact data to confirm this, but high earners and people in professional jobs are more likely to say that they drink weekly than other people.


text: The reason why there are more cases is because they are testing more people.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-influencer-video-full-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Viral influencer video full of false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true more people are being tested than ever before, but we also know deaths and hospitalisations have increased.


text: The Astrazeneca vaccine in the UK causes blood clots.
claimant: Mysteries, Truths and Conspiracies
claim_date: 2021-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sky-news-video-blood-clots/
title: Unevidenced claims about the AstraZeneca vaccine on social media - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is not associated with an increased overall risk of blood clotting disorders. There have been a small number of cases of a rare type of blood clot following vaccination. It is not clear whether this is linked to the vaccine or not, and this is being closely monitored by regulatory bodies.


text: Serco received £37 billion of government money in contracts for NHS Test and Trace.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/37-billion-serco-social-care/
title: The government did not give £37 billion to Serco - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The total value of contracts signed with Serco under the Test and Trace programme by the end of March 2021 was about £623 million. £37 billion was the total budget for the whole programme, not all of which was spent.


text: Half of GPs plan to retire by 60.
claimant: Pulse
claim_date: 2022-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pulse-gp-retirement-survey/
title: Survey of GPs’ retirement plans is not reliable - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comes from an unweighted survey of GPs who chose to answer questions from Pulse magazine. As a result, it is not a reliable guide to the plans of GPs as a whole.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-eu-law/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: EU law - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Even the Government’s proposed new EU deal can be overturned after the referendum; it is not legally binding”

textual_rating:
European law makers are expected to pass the laws necessary to sign off on the deal later this year. Once that happens, each part of the deal will be legally binding in one way or another. Many parts of it could still be challenged at the EU court in future.


text: Conservative councils recycle more of their waste than Labour councils.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/do-conservative-councils-recycle-more/
title: Do Conservative councils recycle more than Labour ones? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. In 2017/18 Conservative councils in England recycled, reused or composted around 49% of their waste, compared to 36% in Labour councils, based on the best available data.  Research suggest that variation in recycling rates can’t solely be put down to which party runs your council, though.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/event-201-pitbull-coronavirus/
title: US rapper Pitbull wrong to claim Event 201 was ‘rehearsal’ for coronavirus pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Event 201 was run by the Johns Hopkins University in cahoots with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

textual_rating:
It was run by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/amazon-kindle-black-friday-sale/
title: Amazon is not selling Kindle Oasis e-readers for £1.78 for Black Friday - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Amazon confirmed it is not offering this deal.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Amazon launched a 'Black Friday Right Now' promotion in which everyone can get a Kindle Oasis only for £1.78.


