Claim: There was a major increase in the number of "short" positions taken by UK hedge funds when Boris Johnson ran for Conservative leader.
Fact-check: We think there's a big error in that viral article about hedge funds and Brexit - Full Fact
Verdict: we cannot identify any such increase; this seems to be an error caused by looking at incomplete data.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani;Tom Phillips
Date published: 2019-09-12T00:00:00