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Recent fact checks

Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe MP and others have claimed it is established that 250,000 children have been victims of so–called “rape gangs”.

A girl stands in a gloomy hallway

This estimate is not calculated reliably. It is derived from unevidenced assumptions, and partly based on figures for child sexual exploitation in general, not by rape gangs specifically.

Unreliable estimate

Earlier this year Conservative MPs started saying that welfare payments had just overtaken income tax receipts “for the first time ever”.

correction clock

It’s not true. The party has said it would correct this error, but almost a month later it still hasn’t done so.

Correction watch

An image apparently shows damage to a Ryanair plane after a passenger was almost sucked out of a window mid-flight.

An image of a Ryanair plane on the tarmac.

The image is not genuine. It is an AI-generated fake, and doesn’t match genuine photos and videos of the incident.

Fake image