Afternoon all. With the upcoming election inevitably going to be full of lies and sensationalism, I was hoping we could have a one stop shop of all outlandish claims made by the parties, with a small reality check here.
Please feel free to provide them, with a fact check provided.
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Basically, USA spend 2.5 more on medicines per head than UK, so if you multiply what we pay in the UK (£18bn or something) by 2.5, the increase equals circa £500m a week!
If a serious politician thinks that this claim doesnt deserve greater scrutiny than this before making it a campaign headliner then, sadly, they're probably in the right career, with tabloid headline writer being the only thing lower
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It estimated that leaving the single market and customs union would knock £9bn off Scottish output (in 2016 pounds), which it divided by the population of Scotland to get about £1,600 per person.
So it's saying that GDP per person would be £1,600 lower than it would otherwise have been in 11 years, but that's not the same as costing each individual £1,600.