The Tories have set up a coronavirus 'misinformation unit'. Here's 11 times they'd have to investigate themselves

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Lots of fake news is floating around thanks to the coronavirus. Sigh. Misinformation seems to be spreading faster than the illness itself, which has led the World Health Organisation to warn that it

Another election corker. The Tories announced pledges to bring 50,000 more nurses to the understaffed NHS. But after accusations that this was misleading from Labour – and just four days before the election – Boris admitted that actually, only 31,000 of those. Post election, Health Secretary Matt Hancock made a big deal of “bringing back” student bursaries scrapped by Tories in 2017.

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Is that it. You really don't have a clue do You.

The more on, is very strong in this piece, suggest the contributor seeks urgent medical attention..

whats the betting that the is purposely spreading misinformation so that they can employ yet more qangos

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