Rishi Sunak’s claim during the first TV debate that a Labour government would hit households with a £2,000 tax hike is an “unreliable figure based on multiple assumptions,” say independent fact-checking experts.
Full Fact, which since 2010 has weeded out lies, half truths and false statements in election campaigns and politics more broadly, gave a damning verdict of the Prime Minister’s central line of attack in the ITV showdown against Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday night.
