Senior Political Journalist
Politics
Reform UK has accused Labour of sharing a misleading video featuring past comments from its Gorton and Denton by-election candidate. Read
Politics
An image shared by the party and its leader Zack Polanski claims figures from a projection show “only the Greens can stop Reform” in Gorton and Denton, even though the model suggests Labour will win. Read
Immigration
A misleading claim that Sir Keir Starmer “won the case that gave illegal migrants access to UK benefits” has been shared widely online. Read
Politics
There’s absolutely no evidence for claims on social media that the Reform UK leader said Donald Trump’s comments about NATO troops were “correct”. He’s on the record as saying he disagreed with them. Read
Immigration
Posts claiming “illegal immigrants” and refugees receive more government support than pensioners have been circulating online for years. But the figures they use are inaccurate. Read
Immigration
An article on Sky News’ website which claimed the government says it’s halved the number of hotels in use since it came to power has been corrected after Full Fact got in touch. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Conservative shadow cabinet minister Alex Burghart claimed on LBC that unemployment has gone up “in every single month” under Labour, but that’s not quite right. Read
Immigration
A new figure from the Migration Advisory Committee estimates the total net lifetime fiscal cost of people who arrived in the UK in 2022/23 through the Partner route of the Family visa—which includes the partners of some UK-born British citizens. Read
Health
A series of fake videos falsely claiming the NHS is “no longer free for over-60s” almost certainly uses AI audio of the PM. Read
Culture & Society
Alerts have been posted in various local Facebook groups warning about a missing 13-year-old boy, but police forces for these areas say they have had no such reports. Read
