How many premature deaths are due to fule poverty?
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The Green Party says fuel poverty is causing a high number of winter deaths due to people living in the cold. Are they right?
The Lowry Centre in Salford has seen cuts to its regular arts budget.
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Conservative culture minister Ed Vaizey says ‘roughly’ the same amount of money is going into the arts as it did under Labour. Is he right?
Nigel Farage raised fishing quotas on the campaign trawl in Grismby.
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said EU fisheries policies means the UK gives away the majority of its fish. Is he right?
Will non-doms be driven away?
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Labour has pledged to get rid of the centuries-old non-dom rule.
Labour is focusing on NHS waiting times.
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Labour claims that 590 fewer GP practices are now open in the evenings and on weekends. Are they right?
Have the wards filled up with more doctors and nurses?
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David Cameron says there are 9,000 more doctors and 7,000 more nurses than in 2010. He is right?
Closing up the gap?
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Nick Clegg has hailed the success of the coalition’s policies in closing the gap between richer and poorer students. Is he right?
Campaigners against the bedroom tax protest outside the high court in 2014.
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Labour claims that the bedroom tax has hit over half a million people, two-thirds of them disabled. Has it?
Has the north of England’s economy lit up?
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In his budget speech, George Osborne claimed that the north grew faster than the south last year. Is he right?
Coalition ministers never miss out on a photo op with apprentices. Vince Cable is no exception.
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Vince Cable and the coalition often shout about the success of the apprenticeship drive. Are they right?
The Trident-class nuclear submarine Vanguard. The Scottish National Party want the weapons system to be scrapped.
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Nicola Sturgeon has set out her Scottish National Party’s opposition to renewing Britain’s nuclear deterrent. Will it cost that much?
Eric Pickles speaks about Troubled Families as the programme’s director general Louise Casey looks on.
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Danny Alexander claims that the government’s family intervention programme has saved the taxpayer £1.2 billion. Our expert examines the evidence.
Grecian Jack.
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Nick Clegg reckons Britain could have gone the way of its struggling European neighbour but for the coalition’s cuts. But does the claim stand up?
The Green Party claims the market has pushed up the cost of the NHS.
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Green MP Caroline Lucas estimated that introducing market structures to the NHS costs over £10 billion a year – but is this true?
The Conservatives have pledged to continue the expansion of their free school programme.
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Education secretary Nicky Morgan said free schools push up standards in neighbouring schools and are popular and effective.
Is the UK fuller than the rest of Europe?
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage said one new house needs to be built every seven minutes to keep up with immigration. Is he right?
UKIP has called for foreign aid to be scaled back.
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UKIP’s Suzanne Evans has said the UK would make big savings if it cut back foreign aid.
Getting down to work?
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We asked two academics to check the prime minister’s figures on job creation.
Sub-Saharan migrants are picked up as part of the Mare Nostrum operation.
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The prime minister’s claim that more people died during the Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation is disingenuous.
A Brit, a German and French person walk into a factory… who clocks off first?
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Labour’s Chuka Umunna said Britain is lagging behind in terms of productivity. We got two academics to look at the facts.