Round-up of claims from the campaign trail checked by Full Fact, including from the final debate of the campaign.
, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information, as part of the PA news agency’s Election Check 24.On Wednesday the final scheduled televised debate of the election campaign saw the Conservatives’ Rishi Sunak and Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer go head-to-head on the BBC.Sir Keir claimed Rishi Sunak has “raised tax 26 times”.
Mr Sunak also said that pensioners would be “paying tax for the first time” under a Labour government. It’s true that the ongoing personal allowance freeze, which Labour has said it would maintain, is forecast to mean that by 2028, for the first time, someone whose sole income comes from the state pension would have to pay income tax.
On this, he was right — the numbers are down in the last 12 months, compared to the previous year. But the figures by calendar year paint a different picture. So far in 2024 provisional figures show the number of small boat arrivals is up 16% compared with the same period last year.
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