Senior Political Journalist
A Facebook post claims Penny Mordaunt MP shouldn’t have worn a badge awarded to submariners. In fact, she was invited to wear the badge by the Royal Navy. Read
A widely shared tweet claims that the same child was reported to have died of Covid-19 in three different countries. This isn’t true. Read
Immigration
A Facebook post refers to reports that a hotel in Ipswich is set to be used to house asylum seekers, and claims that they would be paid £57 per week. Read
An image of a magazine cover showing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy drawing in money and weapons is circulating on social media. Read
because Amazon has not launched a cryptocurrency trading platform under either of these names. Read
In PMQs, Labour MP Stella Creasy claimed the Retained EU Law Bill would ‘abolish’ the right to watch the Olympics for free. The government told Full Fact that this wouldn’t happen. Read
Health
There is no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines are causing people to die of SADS, or that deaths due to the Covid-19 vaccine are being misreported as SADS as part of a cover up. Read
Liz Truss’s letter to the former chancellor followed the convention of similar letters sent by her predecessor Boris Johnson. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Sir Iain Duncan Smith claimed the Bank of England sold ‘some £80 billion in gilts’ around the time of the mini-budget announcement on 23 September. This didn’t happen. Read
Health
At Prime Minister’s Questions Labour MP Ian Lavery said nurses had been given a '72p a week pay rise'. The pay award offered to most NHS staff actually amounts to an increase of around 72p per hour. Read
