Fact Check: is being in the single market dependent on membership of the EU?
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn insists the two are inextricably linked. He's wrong.
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Fact Check: can Wales and Scotland block the Brexit repeal bill?
We asked two constitutional law experts to explain what would happen if Edinburgh and Cardiff refuse to give legislative consent to a bill.
Fact Check: would banning zero-hours contracts harm more people than it would help?
Two experts assess the prime minister's claim and what the evidence says about the impact of a ban.
Fact Check: is it bad for your health to eat food fried in olive oil?
Heating oil creates chemicals that are said to be harmful. Here's how olive oil performs.
Fact Check: is the type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower actually banned in Britain?
We asked two experts to examine what the buildling regulations say.
Fact Check: is China dumping steel?
Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
Fact Check: are only one in eight counter-terrorism referrals to Prevent made by Muslims?
We asked two academics to check the claim made by UKIP leader Paul Nuttall.
Fact Check: do the niqab and burqa prevent intake of vitamin D from sunlight?
We asked two experts to check a claim in the UKIP manifesto.
Fact Check: have the Conservatives protected police and counter-terrorism budgets?
Theresa May says they have. But let's take a closer look.
Fact Check: do the police spend over a million hours a year fighting cannabis?
The figures don't really add up.
Fact Check: have the Conservatives always been the low-tax party?
Theresa May claims the Conservatives have historically been a party of low taxes. Is she right?
Fact Check: if 30% more people under 25 vote, could the Conservatives lose the election?
We asked two experts in youth politics to check the claim that has been circulating on social media.
Fact Check: could Labour raise £19.4 billion by reversing Conservative corporation tax cuts?
Labour has pledged to raise the rate of corporation tax to 26% by 2020. How much could this raise?
Fact Check: are there 6,500 more doctors and 15,000 more nurses since Jeremy Hunt became health secretary?
We asked two academics to check Jeremy Hunt's figures.
Fact Check: are fewer people switching gas or electricity company?
The Conservatives claim the energy market is broken. Are they right?
Fact Check: is education spending at the highest level on record?
'Per pupil expenditure' is where the real story lies.
Fact Check: are diesel cars really more polluting than petrol cars?
Diesel engines have been demonised for their emissions but the technology has already cleaned up its act.
Fact Check: do six million people earn less than the living wage?
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claims they do. Two academics assessed the facts.
Fact Check: are a million African migrants already on their way to Europe?
The Conversation asked two experts to look at the data.
Fact Check: will the Brexit divorce bill cost the UK €60 billion?
There's a lot of talk about a Brexit 'divorce bill' costing the UK tens of billions – we got two academics to check the facts.
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
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Professor, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of European Economics and Policy, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Senior research fellow: EU labour migration, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Work, Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre (WOERRC), University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Applied Economics, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor in the School of Economics, University of Surrey
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Lecturer in Criminology, The Open University
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Professor of Enterprise Policy, Heriot-Watt University
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Emeritus Professor, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick
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Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law, University of Sheffield
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