98%
True
I also want to remember the 72 lives lost at Grenfell Tower.
The official, final death toll of the 14 June 2017 Grenfell Tower fire is 72, a figure confirmed by the Metropolitan Police and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, whose final report (September 2024) concluded all 72 deaths were avoidable.
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85%
True
Production fell 75% over the last 25 years.
North Sea is a mature basin in long-term decline. Based on NSTA production data, oil output fell by about 75% and gas by about 74% between 2000 and 2025 (roughly the last 25 years), with total production down from ~4.4m boe/d in 2000 to ~1m boe/d.
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80%
True
someone who was the heart of the Treasury during the biggest fall in living standards on record.
Real household disposable income per person fell 4.3% in 2022-23 — the largest single-year fall since ONS records began in 1956-57 — under the previous Conservative government, followed by the second-largest fall (2.8%) in 2023-24, per the OBR.
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82%
True
there are over 100,000 jobs in Scotland supported by clean power.
CBI Economics / ECIU analysis of the UK net zero economy estimates that the sector supports around 100,700 full-time-equivalent jobs in Scotland (about 3.8% of the country's total employment), consistent with 'over 100,000'.
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85%
True
The Tory defense secretary, Michael Fallon, who resigned over sexual harassment.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigned in November 2017 amid the Westminster harassment scandal, saying his past behaviour towards women had 'fallen short' of the standards expected of the armed forces. He was the first minister to quit in that wave of allegations.
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85%
True
Every year more than 30,000 deaths in our country are attributed to poor air quality.
Public Health England estimates that long-term exposure to air pollution is attributable to between 28,000 and 36,000 deaths a year in the UK; a June 2025 Royal College of Physicians report likewise linked around 30,000 deaths to air pollution. 'More than 30,000' sits within these official estimates.
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95%
True
Ella Roberta's mom knows this all too well. Her little girl was just 9 years old when she died as a direct result of air pollution.
Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 aged 9. In December 2020 Deputy Coroner Philip Barlow ruled that air pollution made a material contribution to her death — the first time air pollution was recorded as a cause of death on a UK death certificate.
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90%
True
70 years on from the 1956 Clean Air Act, will the Deputy Prime Minister now support a much needed update of this essential law.
The Clean Air Act 1956 was passed in response to the 1952 Great Smog of London. Measured from 2026, that is 70 years — the arithmetic and the date of the Act are correct.
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95%
True
yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the murder of our dear friend Jo Cox.
Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered on 16 June 2016. On the sitting of 17 June 2026 'yesterday' (16 June 2026) is exactly the 10th anniversary of her death.
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70%
True
there are approximately 400,000 private hire and black cab drivers in the United Kingdom.
Department for Transport statistics recorded 381,100 licensed taxi and private-hire driver licences in England alone as of 1 April 2024. Adding Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, a UK-wide figure of 'approximately 400,000' is a reasonable approximation.
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65%
Imprecise
The net zero economy now supports over a million jobs and secures over 105 billion pounds for our economy.
ECIU/CBI analysis supports 'over a million' workers depending on the net zero economy, but the £105bn figure is misstated: the sector's gross value added is about £83.1bn, while £105,500 is the average economic value generated per full-time role — two different figures appear to be conflated.
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90%
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net migration is down under us 82%.
Official statistics support this. UK net migration has fallen sharply from its early-2023 peak: the Migration Observatory (University of Oxford), drawing on ONS data, reports that net migration fell to about 171,000 in the year ending December 2025, a decline of roughly 82% from the peak of around 944,000 in the year ending March 2023. The ONS likewise reports a continuous fall since the March 2023 peak (from 649,000 in the year ending June 2024 to 204,000 in the year ending June 2025). Measured from that peak, the 82% figure — also cited publicly by the Home Secretary — is accurate. (Note: measured only against the immediately preceding year, ending December 2023, the fall is about 50%; the 82% refers to the fall from the 2023 peak.)
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