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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...
Nigel Farage has publicly claimed that from leaving the European Union, blaming political mismanagement and Conservative governments for the outcome and saying the process drove business away . Recent...
The UK government has proposed a national digital ID (the “Brit Card”) to be introduced before the end of this Parliament, tied to work-rights and government services; a petition against mandatory dig...
Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly asserted that a working family would now need to earn £71,000 to match the income of a jobless household with three children; BBC reporting shows she made that specific £7...
Nigel Farage has repeatedly claimed Brexit’s economic opportunities have been “squandered,” that the UK “has not benefited” economically from leaving the EU, and that post‑Brexit regulation and borrow...
Nigel Farage has both admitted Brexit’s economic shortcomings and continued to cast blame on politicians and implementation while promoting alternative claims about deregulation and opportunities lost...
Claims that Rachel Reeves "lied" about the scale of the fiscal hole before the November 2025 Budget hinge on an Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) timeline showing forecasts improved after earlier...
The OBR’s public forecasts for 2024–25 show borrowing remained elevated—around £150bn or roughly 5% of GDP in 2024–25—and receipts for 2024–25 were revised down versus prior forecasts (an in‑year shor...
The provided materials do not supply a clear, numeric comparison of the UK budget deficit under Labour versus the Conservative party; instead they contain press and analysis pieces that highlight on L...
Independent academic and official assessments converge on a clear negative signal: has materially reduced GDP, sharply depressed business investment, and modestly but meaningfully dented productivity—...
Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) administers Air Passenger Duty (APD) and relies on airline and operator passenger data to calculate, collect and enforce that tax from aircraft operators; airlin...
Labour has repeatedly said there is a £22bn “black hole” in this year’s public finances and attributes it to the previous Conservative government; the Conservatives have publicly disputed that figure,...
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...
Available sources do not provide a single, complete year‑by‑year table of “Labour’s budget deficit figures in each year since 2010.” Reporting and official documents instead give headline deficit esti...
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 evidence in the provided materials does not support a simple answer to “Are migrants bad for the UK?”: . Analyses from fiscal studies and the Office for Budget Responsibility describe net positive...
The UK's immigration policy has a measurable but modest fiscal footprint: recent analyses estimate migration-related fiscal impacts at while net migration levels and policy design shape short- and med...