A video debunking numerous spurious claims made by Boris Johnson in parliament has been viewed almost 10 million times.
In August last year, lawyer and filmmaker Peter Stefanovic compiled and uploaded a two-minute video in which he fact-checked several claims made by Boris Johnson since he has been prime minister.
Nurses’ bursary
“We’ve restored the nurses bursary”, Mr Johnson says in one clip. This is not the case. The government introduced a small grant, which still leaves nurses saddled with huge amounts of debt. Their training was completely free up until 2017.
Hospital car parking
“There’ll be free hospital car parking for everyone who attends a hospital”, Mr Johnson says.
This plan was abandoned by Mr Johnson, reportedly at the health secretary, Matt Hancock’s, request.
Poverty
“Absolute poverty and relative poverty have both declined under this government, and there are 400,000 fewer families living in poverty now than there were in 2010.
This claim from June 2020 caused outrage at the time.
According to official records the number of people living in relative poverty in the UK increased from 13.6 million in 2009-10 to 14.5 million in 2018-19.
But absolute poverty did decline over the same period by 100,000 to reach 12.9 million.
Track and trace app.
“The app would be the icing on the cake. If we can get it to work it’d be a fine thing. But there isn’t one anywhere in the world,” Mr Johnson is seen telling parliament.
But at the time Germany had one which had already had over 12 million downloads, while France, Australia, Singapore and Latvia were among other countries that had launched an app.
NHS
“You all know that the government is engaged in record investments in the NHS, £34bn.”
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, once you accounted for inflation, the investment worked out closer to £23.5bn.
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