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By Reality Check team<\/strong>
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Boris Johnson has resigned as Conservative leader and will step down as prime minister when a new leader is found. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It follows a wave of resignations by Tory MPs and ministers – some of whom implicitly questioned Mr Johnson’s honesty. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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During his three years he has been fact-checked regularly. Here are some of the claims that we examined when he made them (along with the articles from the time). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

‘Put \u00a3500 into the pockets of everybody’<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Boris Johnson unveiled the Conservatives’ plan to raise the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance contributions while electioneering in November 2019. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He said: “If we’re lucky enough to be elected, so the first Budget we will go up to the \u00a39,500 threshold and that will, as I say, put \u00a3500 into the pockets of everybody.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But this was incorrect. The Conservatives’ own press release said the benefit from raising the threshold to \u00a39,500 in 2020-21 would be \u00a3100 per year. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said it would be \u00a385 per year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

‘There will be no checks on goods going from GB to NI, or NI to GB’<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Mr Johnson made this promise about the Brexit deal for Northern Ireland – known as the Protocol – which he negotiated and signed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But this assertion – in a Sky News interview in December 2019 – was simply not true. It contradicted the terms of his own deal – as we pointed out at the time. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There have indeed been checks on goods from Great Britain (GB) to Northern Ireland (NI) since the Protocol came into force on 31 December 2020. These have led to political problems in Northern Ireland and the government now wants to change the deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

‘There are hundreds of thousands – I think 400,000 – fewer families living in poverty now than there were in 2010’<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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When we looked into Mr Johnson’s claim made in June 2020, we could find nothing in the official poverty statistics to back it up and Downing Street was unable to supply a source for the figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England<\/a> also examined the claim. Its analysis suggested that between 2010-11 and 2018-19:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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