Claim: Labour's planned welfare spending will cost £520 billion.
Fact-check: Claim about cost of Labour's welfare policy is unsubstantiated - Full Fact
Verdict: this is based on the assumption that the labour party introduces universal basic income for all adults at a certain level. it has so far only said it will trial such a scheme if it gets into government and not released much detail on how such a scheme would work.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2019-09-26T00:00:00