Fix the Elections Bill

Full Fact sets out a bolder vision needed for the Elections Bill to protect our democracy from the harms of misinformation and disinformation.

Full Fact fights bad information

Bad information ruins lives. It promotes hate, damages people’s health, and hurts democracy. You deserve better.

Recent fact checks

Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra made several claims about Covid vaccines in a speech at Reform UK’s recent party conference.

Doctor Aseem Malhotra delivers a speech on the second and final day of the Reform UK party conference at the NEC Birmingham

We’ve fact checked a number of these claims, some of which were misleading or simply lacking any credible evidence.

Vaccine claims

Photos of a new Banksy mural outside the Royal Courts of Justice show a judge hitting a man on the ground who is holding either a Union Jack or England flag.

The Royal Courts of Justice in London

These have been edited. The mural, now partly scrubbed, featured a man on the ground holding a placard, not a flag.

Fake Banksy

Recently appointed Home Office minister Mike Tapp repeated a claim made by several ministers that the government has carried out 35,000 “deportations”.

Labour MP Mike Tapp

This is incorrect. There were 35,052 immigration returns during Labour’s first year in government, but most were voluntary.

Deportations figures