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April 23, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 23 April 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

Labour election leaflets and adverts wrongly claim families are ‘£2,620 worse off’
Boris Johnson makes false employment claim for ninth time in Parliament
Did David Blunkett propose sending asylum seekers abroad in 2004?

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4 min
April 16, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 16 April 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

Thérèse Coffey wrong to claim employment is up over the pandemic
Keir Starmer wrong to say families will be £2,620 worse off this year
Nadine Dorries didn’t say ‘food doesn’t grow on trees’

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4 min
April 09, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 9 April 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:

Why Rishi Sunak’s wife’s tax status isn’t a direct consequence of her citizenship
Keir Starmer wrong to suggest taxes aren’t rising on stocks and shares
No evidence ‘vast majority’ of people crossing Channel in small boats are economic migrants

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4 min
March 26, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 26 March 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

Labour overstates amount spent on ‘dodgy PPE’ which will be burnt
Is sharing photographs of prisoners of war banned by the Geneva Convention?
No evidence for MP’s claims ‘tens of thousands of people’ have ‘suffered severe damage’ from vaccines

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4 min
March 19, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 19 March 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast:

Did Labour invent the ‘hostile environment’?
Is sharing photographs of prisoners of war banned by the Geneva Convention?
Sajid Javid wrong on government guidance for Ukraine family visas

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4 min
March 12, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 12 March 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

Government fails to back up Russian sanction claims
Boris Johnson’s claims on UK accepting people fleeing conflict miss vital context
Photograph of men in military uniform doesn’t show squad members of FC Dynamo Kyiv

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4 min
February 26, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 26 February 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

Disinformation in Ukraine
Boris Johnson wrong on employment figures for seventh time
Maajid Nawaz gets Covid all wrong on Joe Rogan’s podcast

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3 min
February 19, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 19 February 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

Storms with female names are not ‘more deadly’ because people underestimate them
Driving during a red weather warning won’t void your insurance
‘Storm Eunice video' supposedly showing crane fall in Portsmouth is actually from Poland
Washington Post overstates prevalence of long Covid

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4 min
February 12, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 12 February 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

Mirror’s claim that households will be £2,000 a year poorer overstates impact of inflation
West Yorkshire Police is not investigating the Covid vaccine programme
No link between Covid vaccines and new HIV strain

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3 min
February 05, 2022Full Fact's Fact Blast - 5 February 2022
A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

Boris Johnson recycles online claim about Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile
Michael Gove incorrect to say 97% of PPE procured 'fit-for-purpose'
Rishi Sunak wrong to say it’s been a colder than usual winter

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3 min

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