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Election 2010: reality check

Guardian reporters interrogate election campaign claims
  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Is Labour right to claim crime has fallen?

    Alan Travis: Was Alan Johnson, the home secretary, right to assert that crime has not risen under Labour despite Conservative claims to the contrary?

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Reality check: Will 'free schools' cut into funding for maintained schools?

    Labour says comments by Conservative councillors show that new free schools will mean deep cuts to existing schools. Is Labour right?

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Payments to Nick Clegg's bank account – has Liberal Democrat leader done anything wrong?

    Robert Booth weighs up the Daily Telegraph's allegations

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Is Nick Clegg reaching the part of the electorate other politicians can't – the young?

    Robert Booth and Alan Travis ask whether the Lib Dem leader's post-debate boost is having a Heineken effect on the campaign

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Liberal Democrats: Are they nothing to do with 'old' politics?

    Robert Booth and Alan Travis examine Nick Clegg's claim that his party represents a break from the choice between 'two old parties'

  • Reality check: Is the UK's cancer death rate worse than Bulgaria's?

    Conservative leader David Cameron used the first-ever leaders' debate to lambast Labour's record on cancer care and said the death rates were worse than in Bulgaria – but by whose data?
  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Lib Dem manifesto: can you trust the numbers?

    Robert Booth and Alan Travis examine Nick Clegg's claim that his figures on tax and spending changes are 'there for all to see'
  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Can David Cameron get the public volunteering?

    The Conservative leader is facing an uphill battle to get the public to run essential services with only 47% wanting to get involved in local decision-making

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Can the Tories save £2bn by not replacing public sector workers who leave their posts?

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Would Sally Anne Bowman's killer have been caught under Tory DNA policy?

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Can the Tories really fund a NI cut through 'painless' efficiency savings?

    The credibility of the Tory pledge to halt next year's increase in national insurance rests on their ability to find savings of £12bn in the next nine months

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    Will Gordon Brown's planned national insurance rise cost jobs?

    Increasing numbers of senior business leaders are opposing the move, but opinion is divided on what impact a rise will have

  • Reality check for general election 2010

    How middle-class is Gordon Brown's 'ordinary, middle class background'?

    This was the first time in four general elections that a Labour leader could risk invoking class – but how does the claim stack up?
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