It depends on how you count seats “gained”. Full Fact analysis of the available data on 121 council by-elections across Great ...

While it is true that Pope Francis died on 21 April 2025 aged 88, the hand swatting incident with President Trump did not ...

This is because certain types of radiation within sunlight can damage the DNA in skin cells, potentially leading to genetic ...

Full Fact takes a look at the government’s commitment to introduce universal free breakfast clubs in state-funded primary ...

A sign shared on Facebook appeared in Tower Hamlets in 2014—we’ve seen no recent reports of the same or similar signs ...

Two ministers’ claims last week about the extra amount which will be spent on protecting the triple lock are potentially ...

We’ve found no evidence that President Sheinbaum has ever said this. A similarly worded post which was not attributed to President Sheinbaum circulated in 2017—seven years before she was in power. A ...

False. Both the Metropolitan Police and the Community Security Trust have confirmed that this is not true. Claims last week that “British Jews” have been asked to stay at home due to “Pro-Palestine ...

A picture shows General John Pagri, Commander of the Special Tasks Battalion in the US army, who was recently killed in the Gaza Strip. There’s no evidence that any US army general has recently been ...

The government says legislation to achieve this pledge—the Draft Conversion Practices Bill—will be brought forward in this session of Parliament, but it has not yet been published and we don’t know ...

This isn’t the case. A petition on the UK Government and Parliament website has just over three million signatures, but there is no live petition with six million signatures. Claims that a petition ...