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Cabinet minister Michael Gove said: "Next year, both the Durham Miners' Gala and the Notting Hill Carnival will take place in seats served by Conservative MPs."

We've spoken to Ross Forbes from the Durham Miners' Association, who confirmed that the gala would be taking place in the City of Durham constituency, as it has every year since 1871.

City of Durham was held by Labour, with a majority of 5,025, so Mr Gove is wrong about that one. (The Conservatives did gain Durham North West, but that's not where the gala is.)

But Notting Hill is in the Kensington constituency, which was indeed gained by the Conservatives with a majority of 150.

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In his victory speech, Boris Johnson talked about the extra money his government will spend on healthcare.

He said: “We will deliver [a] long-term NHS budget, enshrined in law - £650m extra every week.”

That roughly adds up to an extra £34bn a year. That's how much higher the NHS budget in England will be in cash terms in 2023-24.

But adjusted for inflation, it is worth quite a lot less - just £20.5bn.

There will be an average increase of 3.4% a year, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. That’s less than the average increase the NHS has received over the past six decades.

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Waiting times are a key issue when it comes to the NHS and on the Today programme this morning, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health service in Scotland was seeing more people within its targets than last year.

Is that right? Well, it is true that more people were being seen, but this is because demand was rising. As the Audit Scotland report, external showed (and Today's Martha Kearney pointed out) the proportion of people being seen on time fell in five out of eight categories.

And the overall targets are being missed in six out of eight categories.

This is a claim that Reality Check has looked at before, when Ms Sturgeon made it in another BBC interview.

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Actor Hugh Grant was on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning talking about his support for tactical voting at this election.

"I think it's 69 out of the last 70 national opinion polls seem to suggest that the country has now managed to sift information from disinformation and come to the conclusion that we would prefer to remain in the EU," he said.

We've looked at the polls and he's broadly correct. Of the last 70 polls, there was one Survation poll in May, external that had Leave in the lead by one point. There were two polls that were tied: a Deltapoll one, external from just over a week ago and one from September from BMG, external.

All the rest favoured Remain, although many of the results were within the margin of error for this sort of poll.

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During the debate, Jeremy Corbyn said "inequality has got worse".

This is difficult to answer as it depends what's meant by inequality - and Mr Corbyn didn't give any specifics.

If you look at income inequality, for example, then Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that it has remained broadly stable since 2010 - the year the Conservatives first came to power.

The ONS measures income inequality using something called the Gini coefficient.

The data, external suggests that there was a considerable increase in income inequality in the 1980s, but it was essentially stable over the past decade. Income inequality was 32.5% last year, very slightly down from the 32.7% recorded just before the 2010 election.

But this measure only looks at income, not wealth and assets. However, wealth inequality is much harder to measure because a lot of rich people do not disclose what their true wealth is.

When it comes to other areas of inequality, the data is more clear cut. For example, the ONS said last year that there been a statistically significant increase in the difference in life expectancy in England between the richest and poorest.

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Jeremy Corbyn told the debate that more than half of our trade is with the EU. The latest figures, for 2018, show the figure to be 49%. The same figures show that 45% of UK exports went to the EU. The figure for imports from the EU was 53%.

Trade just in goods (ie ignoring services) with the EU accounted for 52% of the total.

(Correction: This post has been amended to give the figure for total trade as well as exports; and to add the figure for goods only.)

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Boris Johnson tells the debate audience the Conservatives would recruit 20,000 more police officers.

However, since 2010, police officer numbers have decreased by 20,500 in England and Wales. The recruitment has already started.

But, even if these 20,000 officers are recruited, numbers will still be below 2010 levels.

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This Treasury document sets out things that trade experts have been saying pretty clearly, but that the government has refused to accept.

Under Boris Johnson's EU Withdrawal Agreement, it says, customs declarations and documentary and physical checks on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be "highly disruptive to the Northern Ireland economy".

The document notes that 98% of businesses that export to Great Britain are small and medium businesses that are "likely to struggle" to bear the cost.

None of this is a huge surprise to anyone committed enough to have read the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland carefully, but it is not what the prime minister has been saying about his own deal.

Another striking line from the leaked document says the Withdrawal Agreement "has the potential to separate Northern Ireland in practice from whole swathes of the UK’s internal market".

That is why, in a nutshell, Boris Johnson lost the support of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland; and it was his lack of a working majority in Parliament that led in turn to this election.

Reality Check looks at claims made by the Brexit Party leader in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.