Government pledges under the microscope
What our Government Tracker does (and doesn’t) tell us about Labour’s first year
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A video that appears to show Conservative MP George Freeman announcing his defection to Reform UK has been shared widely online.
This video isn’t real and was probably generated using artificial intelligence. Mr Freeman has confirmed he’s not defecting to Reform UK.
In a post on X the home secretary Shabana Mahmood MP claimed that the government “has detained and removed over 35,000 people”.
This is misleading. There were around 35,000 immigration returns in Labour’s first year of government, but most were not detained or forcibly removed.
Videos falsely claiming that a nationwide curfew is set to be introduced have been circulating widely on social media.
There’s no evidence any such policy has been put forward by the Labour government, nor any credible reporting of this proposal.
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