, but that contained some extra context and so we did not include it in the most misleading category). As above, the Mirror has not responded to a request for comment.
“The new Prime Minister has announced energy bills will be frozen at no more than £2,500 until 2024, making them at least £1,000 cheaper than if they had been exposed to Ofgem's price cap come October.”“The new Prime Minister Liz Truss announced energy bills will be capped at £2,500 and won’t rise above that.”, but has since been corrected following contact from Full Fact.
Strictly speaking, this isn’t true. Only typical households with average energy consumption were going to have their bills effectively capped at that figure. In reality it is energyWe’ve not included sources for these 102 claims below because, as outlined above, this is a snapshot analysis of a sample of reports rather than a comprehensive trawl through print, online and broadcast media.
Thought it would be much more, given the extremely high % of people over the past 2.5 years who have proved completely incapable of even basic thinking
Truss repeated said energy bills would be capped at £2500 so I'm surprised it's not more the 38%. British media didn't challenge it of course
Founder of full fact donated 160,000 pounds to the conservative party.
Hang on there FF. The Media? What about the number of times the Government, through PM’s and Minister’s, kept saying it was a £2500 cap?
Bonkers. A lot of the claims were definitely misleading but did people really think energy would be free once they passed the £2500 limit? 🤨