This isn’t correct. The number of hotels in use peaked at “over 400 in summer 2023”, under the previous Conservative ...

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False. There is plenty of evidence of small boat crossings taking place both before the UK left the EU in 2020, and before the EU referendum in 2016, although numbers have increased substantially ...

Work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden’s claim that the current employment rate is higher than in “every year but one” under the Conservatives isn’t correct, according to ONS data.

The health secretary appeared to tell the Labour conference that a “tax break for private healthcare” was Reform’s only health policy at the last election, but there were several in its manifesto.

South Yorkshire Police say no evidence of any crime has been uncovered and counter terrorism police are not involved in the investigation.

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“Our fiscal rules are non-negotiable … This means that the current budget must move into balance, so that day-to-day costs are met by revenues and debt must be falling as a share of the economy by the ...

On 25 February 2025 the then-Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the UK will spend 2.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defence from 2027. He told MPs: “We will deliver our commitment to ...