Tony Thompson

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Generally MPs are paid salaries and members of the House of Lords are entitled to attendance allowances, but none of them receive both.

The same picture has been posted in Facebook community groups for different locations across the UK.

News bulletins on Radio 2, Radio 3 and 6 Music claimed Britain consumes “117 million tonnes” each year—which is roughly a million times what National Crime Agency estimates suggest.

As part of our #FactsMatter campaign, specialist journalist Tony Thompson explains how he came to work at Full Fact, having previously been a crime journalist and author.

Posts shared to local buy and sell groups falsely claim the couple are on the run in various locations across the UK, after killing three female police officers.

Since the government announced changes to the rules around inheritance tax on farms, we’ve seen apparently contradictory figures about the number of estates impacted.

A guide to how crime statistics for England and Wales are presented, and why the question of whether crime is rising or falling can be hard to answer.

With the government announcing plans to ease overcrowding in prisons, we look at the latest figures.

The figure is misleading, as it assumes spending would otherwise have been frozen in cash terms, and fallen as a percentage of GDP, over the next six years.