Fact checks including immigration and migration to and from the EU and the potential impact Brexit may have had on this
A video is being shared with misleading captions claiming it depicts a real attack, when it was a choreographed scene. Read
Immigration
The minimum eligible salary will be £20,480, but other criteria will also apply. Read
Europe
Norway and some other countries follow the free movement rules of the single market without being EU members. Read
Immigration
Figures reportedly briefed by the Home Office suggest that migration law change could cut unskilled EU migration by 90,000. That’s higher than the number of unskilled EU migrants coming to the UK now. Read
Immigration
Migration Watch has withdrawn a study into post-Brexit immigration levels due to accuracy concerns. Read
Immigration
6.5 million migrants have joined GP surgeries in the decade from 2007, but not all of them are here long-term and some were double counted. Read
Immigration
Refugees are not required to seek asylum in the first safe country they reach. But under EU law they can sometimes be returned to the first safe EU country they reached. Read
Health
EU nationals make up a similar percentage of the NHS workforce in England now as they did in 2016. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
About 775,000 children were born in the UK in 2016, 210,000 to non-UK born mothers. Net migration was at around 245,000 in the year to September 2017. Read
Immigration
Governments since 2010 have set a target to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands, and this target has never been met. Read
