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The ITV Leaders' Debate, fact-checked

The team of fact-checkers from Full Fact were with ITV News to debunk and analyse the leaders' claims during the ITV Leaders' Debate on Thursday.

A number of topics were debated, including grammar schools, the deficit, housing benefit and foreign aid.

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Fact-checked: '500,000 schoolchildren in classes bigger than 30 pupils'

Around 500,000 schoolchildren are in classes bigger than 30 pupils, according to Ukip leader Paul Nuttall.

That’s correct, Full Fact say.

More specifically: around 540,000 primary school pupils in English state-funded schools were in classes with 31 or more pupils in January 2016.

So too were about 300,000 secondary school pupils.

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