We’ve crunched the numbers after a claim on the Today programme from former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson.

Posts online falsely claim a video shows US military equipment “given” to the Taliban when it withdrew from Afghanistan.

Posts shared thousands of times on social media claim the PM is going to “means test” pensions. But there’s no evidence this ...

A post circulating on social media falsely claims that there are 1.6 million asylum seekers receiving “long term benefits”.

Posts shared thousands of times on social media claim the PM is going to “means test” pensions. But there’s no evidence this is true and the government has said there are no plans to change state pens ...

Posts shared thousands of times on social media claim the PM is going to “means test” pensions. But there’s no evidence this is true and the government has said there are no plans to change state pens ...

Will state pension increases offset the impact of Winter Fuel Payment changes? Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the state pension ‘will increase by more than any loss of the Winter Fuel ...

Energy secretary Ed Miliband wrote an opinion article for the Guardian headlined “Our GB Energy will become the envy of the world just like our NHS”. This is false. No such article has appeared in the ...

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In a post on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this week the Conservative party said: “The UK had the fastest growing economy in the G7 this year until Labour got in. Now it’s flatlined.” It’s true the ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the state pension ‘will increase by more than any loss of the Winter Fuel ...

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