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Recent fact checks
On 13 June we fact checked politicians taking part in ITV’s seven-party election debate.
Our round-up features our verdicts on claims about Labour’s tax and spending plans, GDP growth and the Scottish Child Payment.
Labour has claimed the measures set out in the Conservative manifesto would increase the average mortgage by £4,800 over the course of the next parliament.
This is a speculative figure. It is based on several uncertain assumptions, and some of the detail of Labour’s workings remains unclear.
Our General Election 2024 blog has rolling coverage of what we’ve been fact checking during a busy week of the campaign.
Read our snap analysis of claims and pledges from the parties’ manifesto launches, the week’s TV debates and much more.
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