Rishi Sunak falsely claimed asylum backlog has halved under the Tories, says statistics watchdog
The Prime Minister has been urged to correct the record following his false claim.
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EXCLUSIVE: Two-thirds of voters want rules changed so MPs can call out lies in Parliament, poll finds
While 66% of voters backed a change to the rules, just 19% opposed any changes.
Disinformation minister refuses to condemn Boris Johnson’s lie
Chris Philp refused to distance himself from Johnson’s false claim and far-right smear that Starmer had failed to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile while he was director of public prosecutions.
Boris Johnson’s Brexit lies should disqualify him from Tory leader race
The Left must expose how this man cannot possibly be Prime Minister
Exposed: The climate deniers’ sea levels lies
The latest Spectator claims the sea level rise in the Maldives is a “lie”. And their source for this claim? Climate denier and pseudoscientist Nils-Axel Mörner.
Yet more distortion of the truth from No2AV
Last week Labour No To AV released a document, the purpose of which was to argue that AV would harm Labour’s electoral fortunes. Labour Yes rebut their key arguments.
Today’s Express, Mail, Sun and Telegraph all wrong on Incapacity Benefit
Today’s Daily Express, Daily Mail, Sun and Telegraph all published misleading facts about Incapacity Benefit today, reports Declan Gaffney.
Poorest students will be considerably worse off under new system
The new access agreement is a political fig leaf to cover up a government busy destroying our education system and the hopes and aspirations of students and their families.
Is Simon Hughes Britain’s most confused politician?
Following Evan Harris’s bizarre claim last week that the only way to get rid of fees was to “vote more Liberal Democrats into power”, Simon Hughes yesterday said he “would have liked to have voted against” fees – but didn’t, just as he threatened to vote against the VAT rise in the Budget but failed to do so, and as he threatened to do over the government’s housing benefit cuts.
Nearly 50,000 hits for Clegg-Osborne “liar liar” video
Nearly 50,000 people have viewed a music video against the coalition’s cuts, which features a montage of Nick Clegg, George Osborne and David Cameron droning on about us “all being in this together”, and even a star-turn from Mr Clegg’s (alleged) political inspiration – Mrs Thatcher.