2024-01-03 11:26:13
1/ Mortgage rates are based on BoE set interest rates. 2/ it is £20 billion additional to the planned Conservative spend, and even then it will not be implemented right away. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-2-0) Author
2024-01-03 13:04:27
This post misleadingly claims that Labour intend to borrow ‘£28bn a year’. The same Telegraph article says Rachel Reeves has pledged that Labour would not hit £28bn each year, instead ‘ramping up’ green investment to this level in the second half of its term at the earliest. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-0-1) Author
2024-01-03 15:44:49
The quote here is from an anonymous source within government, not the Telegraph. This post is presenting spin by the Tories as independent analysis. This is obvious in the article Claire Coutinho has linked herself. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-0) Author
2024-01-03 21:50:58
There is no proof that what the conservative MP is implying is ever likely to be true. If we look at the past record of the Conservatives over the last 13 years, it is very likely that it is a mistruth [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-0) Author
2024-01-03 22:07:59
CN even acknowledges that the OP is true, Labour intend to increase it to £28bn but slowly. The time frame wasn't being contested, they will do it. "saying Labour would “ramp up” to the annual £28 billion plan by halfway through a first Parliament."[Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-0) Author