"The next general election will be different. We must act now," writes John Pullinger CB, Chair of @electoralcommission.org.uk, in an essay for Full Fact's seventh annual report.
Read it in full here: fullfact.org/policy/repor...
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We’ve updated our Government Tracker following the release of new school workforce figures last week.
Find out why we’re now rating Labour’s teacher recruitment pledge as ‘appears on track’.
Christi Hill, alongside her former colleague, were both wrongly identified online as being involved in the arrest of Henry Nowak.
Christi has spoken to Full Fact about the “onslaught of thousands of people” after she was misidentified online.
Labour has said it’s 70% of the way towards its target of recruiting 6,500 new expert teachers, but the Conservatives have said there are fewer teachers.
What’s going on? We’ve taken a look at the latest figures.
The latest asylum figures show a 58% decrease in the number of asylum cases waiting for an initial decision since Labour took office.
Our updated explainer looks at the government’s progress with the asylum backlog.
2/ The report makes recommendations across four areas:
→ Securing the information ecosystem
→ Strengthening public resilience
→ Modernising laws and institutions
→ Increasing commercial transparency and accountability
It's almost 10 years since the Brexit vote. Is there a Brexit-related claim you've always wondered about?
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On last week's #BBCQT Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon said his party would stop “1,000 people coming in a day” to the UK by small boat.
How many migrants arrive each day by small boat? We’ve looked at the figures 🔎
A video is being shared with claims it shows a female Israeli soldier taking her own life after denouncing military atrocities.
But the footage is actually a scene from an Egyptian television series.
fullfact.org/conflict/isr...
1/ Facts—and the institutions that verify and communicate them—are under intense pressure in the UK.
Our latest report finds the information environment is structurally weakening, putting democracy at risk.