Immigration
Labour hasn’t ‘halved’ the number of asylum hotels
In recent days we’ve seen a number of inaccurate and misleading claims about Labour’s record on closing asylum hotels. Read
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Hannah Smith
Senior Political Journalist
Hannah joined Full Fact as a fact checker in May 2022. Before that she wrote news and features for UNILAD. She is a qualified journalist, and also has a degree in history.
Immigration
How many asylum hotels have been closed under Labour?
A government minister said 200 hotels have been closed since peak usage under the Conservatives, but most of this decrease took place under the previous government. Read
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Immigration
Are there 1.2 million ‘illegal immigrants’ in the UK?
This widely-circulating figure appears to be based on a think tank estimate that is both out of date and based on flawed methodology. We don’t know with any degree of certainty how many unauthorised migrants are living in the UK. Read
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Immigration
Has Labour carried out ‘record deportations’?
We’ve looked at the figures after Labour MP Mike Tapp claimed the government has carried out “record deportations”. Read
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Immigration
Are ‘Channel migrants’ 24 times more likely to go to prison than British citizens?
The Conservatives haven’t fully explained the calculations behind this claim, but based on the details reported it is not reliable. Read
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Politics
Labour MP did not say victims of grooming gangs should ‘shut their mouths’
A post re-circulating on Facebook appears to be based on something that Naz Shah reposted from a parody account then quickly deleted in 2017—she has said the sharing of the post was a “genuine accident”. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Did living standards reach an 'all-time low' under the Conservatives?
Last month the Prime Minister claimed living standards were “at an all-time low” under the previous government—but none of the usual measures of living standards back this up. Read
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Immigration
Was Sadiq Khan’s claim about migrant and UK-born workers’ contributions to the economy accurate?
In an interview last month the Mayor of London claimed on average a “skilled migrant” contributes £16,000 a year to the economy, and a “Brit skilled worker” £800 a year. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
School standards minister confuses interest rates and inflation in Sky News interview
Catherine McKinnell MP claimed “we’ve seen inflation coming down”, but her department has since told us she meant to refer to interest rates. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How have unemployment and jobs figures changed under Labour?
Seemingly contrasting claims about unemployment and jobs figures were made by the Conservatives and Labour at this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions. Read
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