THREE claims made by Cabinet ministers at the Conservative party conference have been found to be false by fact checkers.
The event in Manchester has been making headlines throughout the week, with a number of bizarre claims being made by top Tories in Rishi Sunak’s Government.
But strange assertions about 15-minute cities, a meat tax and inflation made by ministers throughout the event have been found to be false.
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Full Fact said their findings were “deeply disappointing” and they had seen a trend emerge where politicians have “made up claims about policies or initiatives without putting them into context”.
We told earlier this week how Scottish Tory MSP and junior minister Andrew Bowie was condemned for spreading a conspiracy theory around 15-minute cities, an urban planning initiative.
Bowie was defending Transport Secretary Mark Harper’s speech to the Tory party conference on October 2, where he claimed he was “calling time on the misuse of so-called 15-minute cities”.
Harper said: “What we shouldn’t tolerate, is the idea that local councils can decide how often you go to the shops, and that they can ration who uses the roads and when, and that they police it all with CCTV."
Full Fact said that while some councils had introduced controversial proposals to introduce traffic restrictions, they were not linked to 15-minute city proposals.
They added that there was “...
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