By Actuality Test groupBBC Informationpicture copyrightEPAThere have been heated exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday as Boris John
By Actuality Test group
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picture copyrightEPAThere have been heated exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday as Boris Johnson and the Labour chief Keir Starmer clashed over the controversial refurbishment of the Downing Avenue flat – amongst different points.
The prime minister insisted that he paid for work on No 11 Downing Avenue (the place he lives) “personally” – however wouldn’t be drawn on whether or not another person had funded it first.
The Electoral Fee has introduced that it’s launching an investigation, as a result of there are “cheap grounds to suspect that an offence or offences might have occurred”.
We have checked out a few of the claims made in Parliament:
Boris Johnson: “I would quite not spend taxpayers’ cash, by the way in which, just like the final Labour authorities, which spent £500,000 of taxpayers’ cash on the Downing Avenue flat”
The figures for annual spending seem in a parliamentary reply from a Cupboard Workplace minister.
The £500,000 determine is what you get in the event you regulate for inflation (ie rising costs) and add up all of the spending over the interval of Labour governments between 1997 and 2010.
Should you take the sum of money really spent on the time, to mirror the annual £30,000 allowance, there have been a number of years when the spending was over that stage.
However the complete spending over 13 years was £370,000, which is just below £30,000 a yr.
We don’t but have the determine for 2020-21, so we have no idea whether or not Mr Johnson took the complete £30,000 contribution of public cash in the direction of the refurbishment of the Downing Avenue flat.
Boris Johnson: “Final evening, our buddies within the European Union voted to approve our Brexit deal, which he [Keir Starmer] opposed”
If the prime minister is referring to the vote within the Home of Commons that adopted the deal then this declare is just not appropriate.
The Labour chief voted in favour of the laws on the settlement, as did the overwhelming majority of Labour MPs.
Mr Starmer had stated a “skinny deal was higher than no deal”. He had criticised numerous features of the deal.
The vote passed off on 30 December and was backed by the Commons by 521 to 73 votes after Parliament was recalled.
Boris Johnson: “In terms of deceptive Parliament… he [Keir Starmer] stated he did not oppose this nation… leaving the European Medicines Company, a reality he was then pressured to retract”
The prime minister was referring to an alternate in February – over the UK’s vaccine rollout – when he stated that the Labour chief backed the UK staying within the European Medicines Company (EMA).
That is the EU physique which evaluates new medicines and authorises the usage of vaccines. Mr Starmer vehemently denied this declare on the time.
However as we identified again in February, he had really spoken in favour of staying within the EMA in 2017 on two events, within the context of the continuing Brexit debate again then.
Mr Starmer later admitted that he was “mistaken” to name the prime minister’s declare “full nonsense” and acknowledged he had beforehand expressed assist for the EMA.
Boris Johnson: “We have finished 50% of the inhabitants and 25% of the grownup inhabitants have now had two doses [of vaccine]”
Based on the federal government figures from 27 April, greater than 33.eight million individuals within the UK have had the primary dose of the vaccine. That’s certainly about half of the inhabitants.
And on Tuesday, the Division of Well being stated greater than 1 / 4 of adults within the UK – 13.2 million – had been vaccinated with each doses of a Covid-19 jab.
So, these figures are appropriate.
We’re nonetheless taking a look at a number of different claims from Prime Minister’s Questions and can add them once we can.
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