Senior Political Journalist
Immigration
Sir Keir Starmer claimed there’d been a “23% increase” in returns compared to last summer. But the data this is based on hasn’t been published, so we’re unable to verify it. Read
It’s not true that 360 times more money is lost to tax evasion than benefit fraud, as posts on social media have claimed. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Labour minister Pat McFadden made this claim during a radio interview, but may have been referring to the expected increase in the new state pension instead. Read
Education
We’ve crunched the numbers after a claim on the Today programme from former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Posts shared thousands of times on social media claim the PM is going to “means test” pensions. But there’s no evidence this is true and the government has said there are no plans to change state pens Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the state pension ‘will increase by more than any loss of the Winter Fuel Payment’. Read
Immigration
After the government was criticised for not proceeding with a Conservative plan for a ‘UK connection test’, we take a look at who can apply for social housing, and who gets prioritised. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Rishi Sunak claimed Labour has ‘scrapped’ cost of living support for pensioners, and the Winter Fuel Payment. We've had a look at what’s happened to various pensioner cost of living support measures. Read
We’ve examined claims from this week’s PMQs about the state of the public finances, support for pensioners, economic growth and more. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Labour pledged to keep energy bills frozen in response to rising prices in 2022. It did not make any such promise in its recent election manifesto. Read
