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 ...

The clips do not show flooding in the US city of Brenham, but are actually from various locations including India, France and Spain.

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 ...

Full Fact looks at Labour’s pledge to deliver “40,000 more appointments every week” in NHS England, amounting to two million a year.

Our verdict While the government has said this pledge will be measured using estimates of real terms GDP per capita, it hasn’t explained what “sustained” growth means, or if it will rely on annual or ...

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 ...

Revenue from the North Sea oil and gas reserves would be an important source of income for an independent Scotland, if it wanted to continue spending at the current level. How these resources would be ...

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