No, Brexit didn’t change the UK’s ability to authorise the Covid-19 vaccines earlier than the rest of the EU.

John Cole explores the government's response to a petition calling for an enquiry into the impact of Brexit before it's debated in parliament.

What was claimed: The UK has secured new free trade deals with over 70 countries since 2016, worth over £800 billion in new global trade. / Most of these deals were rolled over from existing EU agreements following Brexit. The figure refers to the total value of trade between the UK and countries it has agreed trade deals with—not the value that they add.

Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt has again repeated a false claim she made during the 2016 referendum campaign that the UK wouldn't have been able to block Turkey from joining the EU.

Using imperial measurements alone is illegal in many circumstances. But the EU did not outlaw their use altogether, and the UK did take some steps towards adopting the metric system prior to joining the EU.

A European Court of Human Rights ruling stopped the flight. It is a totally separate institution from the EU.

Sam Bright unravels nine key claims made in the 100-page paper. / The paper is introduced with more than a dozen bullet points – summarising the key ways in which the Government has taken advantage of Brexit. However, this was an attempt at distortion and hyperbole – masking the ways in which leaving the EU has failed on its own terms.

To celebrate, the government has published a dossier titled “Benefits of Brexit: how the UK is taking advantage of leaving the EU”. / But four of these alleged benefits aren’t a result of the UK’s departure.

The Express has repeated a misleading claim about Britain’s trade deals, despite having already amended a previous article which made the same claim, after being approached by Full Fact.

This £766 billion figure refers to the total value of trade between the UK and countries it has agreed trade deals with—not the value that they add. Most of these deals were rolled over from when the UK was an EU member.

An aerial image of a mass of people near Hyde Park Corner in London has been shared widely on social media, with people claiming it shows the anti-lockdown protest on 24 April 2021.

The chancellor says freeports could help the economic recovery, but critics say they increase the risk of tax dodging and lower employment standards.

Boris Johnson was asked on the BBC's Andrew Marr show how "ordinary voters" in a place such as Leigh in Greater Manchester (which voted Conservative in the 2019 election) would benefit from Brexit.

‘It’s astonishing that the man in charge of our Brexit policy should completely mislead the public on two major issues of concern’

These estimated benefits are relative to 2018 when the UK (as part of the EU) had no FTA with Japan.

It is not true that the EU failed to help the UK in the Falklands War, or that it sent weapons to Argentina during the conflict.

THE CLAIM: "Any country joining the European Union must have a fiscal deficit at 3% or below. With the Scottish deficit at almost 8% the SNP must outline how Scotland could join the European Union as an independent country."

This note provides some basic statistics on the UK's trade with the EU.