Labour and the Conservatives are making seemingly contrasting claims about the state of the labour market—here’s what the figures show.

Second, information sources are disappearing. This is preventing fact checkers, journalists, researchers and policymakers from doing their jobs. While there has been some discussion about this trend, ...

The government has said a resettlement scheme designed for some of those impacted by a data breach will cost £800-£850 ...

The defence secretary has again made an error in referring to the government’s record on immigration returns, as has a post ...

There’s no evidence for claims it was to not “offend” the festival’s crowd—the RAF says it’s because the planes were ...

Of those voting, 90% supported strike action. But turnout was just over 55%, so many of those eligible didn’t vote at all.

In a column published by the Daily Mail on Friday, 11 July, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage MP wrote: “One analysis of official figures has found that those who come to Britain illegally are 24 times ...

In the last year we've fact checked at least 10 examples of fake offers supposedly from Amazon circulating on social media, promising everything from iPads to Dyson vacuum cleaners at very low prices ...

NHS England also publishes a figure for the median wait, in weeks, for cases where someone has not started to receive treatment yet. Because it’s the median, this number shows what you would see if ...

In October 2023, Labour said it would create a ‘Fit for the Future Fund’ of £171 million per year which “will provide enough funding to double the number of CT and MRI scanners in the NHS over a ...

A viral Facebook post claims that all animals involved in Covid-19 vaccine studies died months later from immune disorders, sepsis and/or cardiac failure. This is false. The post appears to be a ...

About 25,260 excess deaths occurred in GB over winter 2018/19—a lower number than in recent years—and most were in people of pension age. Cold weather is a major contributor to these deaths, but there ...