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Boris Johnson’s ‘get Brexit done’ slogan misleading warns fact-checker Full Fact

Independent fact-checker Full Fact has accused the Tories of failing to come clean on the true cost of the Conservative Manifesto.

Ben Gelblum by Ben Gelblum
2019-11-24 22:58
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Fact-checker Full Fact has accused Boris Johnson of being economical with the truth after the unveiling of his election manifesto.

The main Tory manifesto pledge was debunked among other claims by the fact checking service within hours of the launch.

Chief executive Will Moy said the Conservative Party could “do more to meet the standards we expect” after investigating its pledges on paving the way for 50,000 new nurses and limiting day-to-day spending increases to only £3 billion, despite promising a litany of public services investment.

Full Fact said the Tories had not been upfront about the full cost of their initiatives in the 59-page document, titled Get Brexit done, unleash Britain’s potential.

It is the second time in less than a week that Johnson’s party has fallen foul of Full Fact, following the Conservative Campaign Headquarters’ decision to rebrand its Twitter handle to factcheckUK during the leaders’ debate between the Prime Minister and Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn last week.

In a tweet during the ITV debate on Tuesday, Full Fact called it “inappropriate and misleading” for the Tory press office to give the impression it was an independent fact checking service.

In the costings list provided with the Tory manifesto, unveiled in Telford in the West Midlands on Sunday, it stated that the price of training 50,000 extra nurses and paying their maintenance grant would be £879 million in 2023/24.

But Full Fact said training that number of nurses, funding their £24,000 salaries and stumping up National Insurance contributions would cost the NHS closer to £2.8 billion.

Labour has already cast doubt over the headline figure, suggesting that the 50,000 number was “deceitful”.

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According to the party, the pledge included 19,000 nurses the Tories hope to retrain and another 12,000 from overseas, meaning only 19,000 positions would be filled by new trainees.

Boris Johnson’s ‘get Brexit done’ slogan doesn’t add up

Full Fact also remarked that it was “simplistic” of the PM to use the the slogan “get Brexit done”, a phrase that appears 22 times in the manifesto including on the cover, when a deal with the European Union could take “years to negotiate”.

“The Brexit process will not be completed by January,” said the independent organisation.

Another area the Tories were pulled up on was on the pledge of £3 billion of extra day-to-day spending by the final years of the next parliament.

The sum looks significantly smaller than those by rival parties.

But, despite Chancellor Sajid Javid promising the “most transparent costings that have ever been published in British electoral history”, Full Fact said the Tories had not explained how every pledge in the manifesto would be funded.

“While the Conservatives plan to increase annual current spending by £3 billion compared to what’s already been announced, the Conservatives plan to spend a lot more than £3 billion extra per year than we spend today,” said Full Fact.

“For example, the Conservative manifesto spending list omits its headline pledges on school funding, the NHS, and (creating 20,000 more) police officers.”

Mr Moy said voters deserved information that was “accurate and honest” before making their minds up on December 12.

“Candidates and parties are asking voters for their trust for the next five years, and like the other main parties, the Conservatives can do more to meet the standards we expect,” said the Full Fact boss.

IFS slams Tory manifesto for ignoring social care and warns NI changes only actually amount to under £2 a week

Economic researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculated that the National Insurance threshold rise to £9,500 that Boris Johnson appeared to have lied or been mistaken about will actually only save most in paid work “less than £2 a week” and highlighted the “notable omission” for any plan to deal with the crisis in social care funding.

Nigel Edwards, chief executive at the Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, said he was “bitterly disappointed” to see “unnecessary delay” in tackling the issue of social care.

IFS director Paul Johnson said: “If a single Budget had contained all these tax and spending proposals, we would have been calling it modest.

“As a blueprint for five years in government, the lack of significant policy action is remarkable.”

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