Fact checks, commentary and analysis on the topic of the UK Labour Party
Economy, Business & Finance
Labour and the Conservatives have made seemingly contrasting claims about the state of the labour market—here’s what the figures show. Read
Politics
Claims about the footage that circulated widely on social media after it was posted last week are false—and here’s how we know. Read
Politics
Elections for nine councils in England were postponed from May 2025 to May 2026, so that the councils could take part in local government reorganisation. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
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
Health
In the run-up to the local elections, Labour is warning Reform UK would make people pay to use the health service—a claim the party’s strongly denied. Full Fact looks at the evidence. Read
It depends on how you count seats “gained”. Read
Immigration
Some politicians and media have referred to the total number of immigration returns as the number of people being “deported”, but most returns aren’t officially counted as “deportations”. Read
We’ve taken a look at what Labour said it would do, after Conservative claims that council tax rises this year amount to a “betrayal”. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Our round-up looks at claims from the chancellor Rachel Reeves’ statement in the Commons, and the Conservative response. Read
Health
There were actually 6.4 million people on the NHS England waiting list last July, not 7.6 million as the health secretary claimed last month. That was the number of cases. Read
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