Nine key facts about the election everyone keeps getting wrong

The 2019 general election is proving to be one of the most complicated to discern, as candidates and political parties move away from traditional truth-stretching and fact-massaging to more malicious potential falsehoods. The man claimed that his earnings – which he confirmed were over £80,000 a year – would put him “nowhere near” the top five percent of earners. In 2017 YouGov surveyed Britons about how much they thought you had to earn a year to be rich: a third of people said that earning the average salary would make them think of themselves as poor, while just ten per cent of those earning £50,000 a year or more before tax – which would put them in the top 25 percent of earners – thought of themselves as rich. “It's really quite shocking how few people realise that they are in the top five percent of earners,” says Wanda Wyporska, executive director of The Equality Trust, a charity campaigning against social and economic inequality. Given that a nurse or a teacher is ‘valued’ or paid at less than one per cent of the average FTSE 100 CEO, it’s high time we took a good look at pay structures.” NHS funding is at its highest level ever This claim has become a common soundbite for Conservatives out on the campaign trail.