Senior Political Journalist
Conflict
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed at Prime Minister’s Questions that Type 45 destroyers “cannot take out incoming missiles”, but that isn’t correct. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Responding to today’s Spring Forecast, Conservative shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride MP claimed that the UK’s youth unemployment is “the highest in Europe”.This isn’t correct. According to the Organisation for … Read
World
A video shared with captions claiming a plane was targeted at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport was actually filmed in Denver last year. Read
World
An image showing people running away from a burning Burj Khalifa is AI. Read
Politics
A bar chart shared by Labour showing it polling slightly ahead of Reform UK in Gorton and Denton doesn’t tell the whole story. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Conservative shadow education secretary Laura Trott claimed the UK has the highest youth unemployment rate in Europe—but this isn’t correct. Read
Immigration
A leaflet being shared by Reform UK as part of its by-election campaign in Gorton and Denton claims that “350 illegal boat migrants” live in the constituency. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A post circulating on Facebook features several inaccurate figures about the cost of “asylum seeker benefits”, benefit fraud and error and tax avoidance. Read
Politics
Posts on social media have wrongly claimed Reform UK “Photoshopped” a picture of Matt Goodwin standing outside a house to make it look like it had Reform UK placards on display. Read
Politics
A bar chart shared by Labour is based on a very small sample size. Read
