Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak

We’ve fact checked Rishi Sunak 62 times. Since 2022, we’ve asked him to correct the record 11 times.

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We’ve fact checked Rishi Sunak 62 times

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We’ve asked Rishi Sunak to correct the record 11 times

It’s important that those making claims in public life correct their mistakes. We follow up on our fact checks to ask politicians and media organisations to issue corrections when they get things wrong.

We have been in touch with Rishi Sunak about 11 of his claims. He has corrected the record twice.

Rishi Sunak made an incorrect claim that his government had got 18-week waits down by 90% in 2023 on 2 February 2024

Thank you Rishi Sunak for correcting the record on 8 March 2024

Rishi Sunak made a claim about Around 93,600 jobs are supported by the oil and gas industry in Scotland on 22 November 2023

After we published this fact check, we contacted Rishi Sunak to request a correction regarding this claim.

Rishi Sunak issued a correction.

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