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The claim that “leaving the EU would give the NHS £350 million a week” originated from the Vote Leave campaign and was a prominent slogan in 2016; fact‑checking bodies and later analyses say this figu...
Estimates of the annual cost of supporting “illegal immigrants” in the vary widely because commentators and official bodies use different definitions, time‑periods and cost categories; headline figure...
The record so far is mixed: independent trackers judge has implemented most manifesto pledges or is actively working on them, but there are clear instances where the letter of the manifesto has not be...
Nigel Farage’s comments during the Brexit campaign — most notably the claim that Brexit would free up “£350 million a week for the NHS” and later admissions that the pledge was a “mistake” — produced ...
New research cited by the Centre for Social Justice finds a three‑child household on combined benefits will receive about £46,000 a year by 2026/27, and concludes a working family would need roughly £...
The available analyses show , but reported Gini values differ because sources use different scales and reference years. Official series in the provided material report the U.S. Gini around and , while...
’s oft-cited projection that asylum accommodation could cost about a year by 2026 rests on a small set of measurable assumptions — chiefly the number of people receiving asylum support and the per‑nig...
The for UK universities shifted decisively in 2012 from state-supported teaching grants towards a student‑funded system based on large tuition loans, a change followed by a decade of freezes, grant re...
Germany has historically spent less of its GDP on defence than the United Kingdom and roughly the same or slightly less than France in recent years; in 2023 German defence outlays were about 1.6% of G...
UK fact-checkers overwhelmingly judged the “” slogan to be misleading or false: the figure represented a gross number not 's net payment after the rebate and receipts, and independent checkers such as...
Public reporting about the UK Spending Review and related budgets shows the NHS was allocated a large multi‑year uplift — often expressed as a £29–30 billion increase to annual resource budgets over t...
The claim was not a magic accounting discovery but a cherry-picked headline derived from for 's gross payments into budget, seized and amplified by the during the ; it ignored rebates, EU spending tha...
Between 2010 and 2020 the United Kingdom was a consistent net contributor to the EU budget, with typical annual net contributions in the range of roughly £5–11 billion depending on the calculation met...
Reporting identifies the £22bn figure as an Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) estimate of the shortfall Reeves must fill ahead of the November 26 Budget; that number is repeated widely in coverage bu...
Parliamentary parties and individual MPs have repeatedly cited expert critiques of large “£22bn” figures in two distinct contexts: a £22bn shortfall in public finances discussed around Chancellor Rach...
Multiple independent analysts and think‑tanks publicly evaluated Labour’s claim of a £22bn shortfall. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Resolution Foundation said much of the shortfall wa...
Labour’s government has added large capital and targeted programme commitments since the 2024 manifesto: a headline £113bn boost to capital infrastructure over the spending review period and multi‑bil...
Labour has said it faces a roughly £22 billion “black hole” in the public finances that it has to address through a mix of spending changes and tax measures; officials and analysts say many obvious la...
Recent analyses converge on two facts: the Home Office’s immigration-related costs rose sharply around 2022–24 and the government both added targeted funding and repeatedly under‑estimated those costs...
The reported in UK public finances presents a material fiscal challenge that officials must address through a mix of spending restraint, tax changes, or increased borrowing; the Institute for Fiscal S...