Claim: Chevening is taxpayer-funded.
Fact-check: Chevening isn't 'taxpayer-funded' in the usual sense - Full Fact
Verdict: it isn't in the conventional sense—chevening is paid for by a trust. but that trust is exempt from paying income tax and appears to have received at least some public money in the past.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2021-09-28T00:00:00