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网页4 天之前 · The health service acted quickly after Full Fact brought its attention to a mistake in the calculation of the number of people on the waiting list. Thousands of people have shared a post falsely claiming Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK will “boycott all diplomatic relations” with Israel due to ...
Get the facts on immigration – Full Fact
网页2024年9月18日 · PM’s conference speech claim about ‘23% increase’ in immigration returns based on unpublished data. 26 September 2024. Sir Keir Starmer claimed there’d been a “23% increase” in returns compared to last summer. But the data this is based on hasn’t been published, so we’re unable to verify ….
The facts about people seeking asylum in the UK – Full Fact
网页2021年11月30日 · Outcome of asylum applications. In 2020, the UK issued 19,049 “first instance” decisions on asylum cases, granting a positive outcome to 9,072 of these (48%), above the average EU rate of 41%. A positive outcome could involve the granting of refugee status, or an alternative form of protection if they don’t qualify for refugee status.
World Trade Center 7 didn’t collapse for ‘no apparent reason'
网页2021年9月16日 · A nearby building did collapse on 9/11 despite not being hit by a plane, due to a complex process of structural failures caused by fire.
Video clips don’t show Buzz Aldrin admitting he never went to the …
网页2023年4月6日 · A Facebook reel, played more than 800,000 times, claims to show former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin admitting he had never been to the Moon.. The video consists of three separate clips, each appearing to show Mr Aldrin—the second person ever to set foot on the Moon—explaining how his expedition to the Moon had been staged or had never happened at all.
The 2024 general election - in numbers – Full Fact
网页2024年7月5日 · Labour has won 63% of the seats in the House of Commons, at the time of writing, and 33.7% of the vote share. Labour’s vote share this time around was lower than in 2017 when it won 41% and 262 (40%) seats, but higher than in 2019 when it achieved 32.9% of the vote share and 202 (31%) seats. By our calculations, the 2024 result saw the ...
Buzz Aldrin didn’t ‘admit’ he never went to the Moon – Full Fact
网页2023年1月16日 · Buzz Aldrin admitted the Moon landings were faked in an interview. Our verdict. In the clip, Mr Aldrin appears to be explaining why astronauts haven’t returned to the Moon in decades, not that they never went at all. In other interviews, Mr Aldrin clearly claims he went to the Moon. A video viewed more than 42,000 times on Instagram claims to ...
Covid isn’t fake – Full Fact
网页2023年7月27日 · The Covid-19 virus is fake. It is not. The virus has been isolated many times. It has killed almost seven million people worldwide and continues to circulate. An Instagram post features a screenshot of a tweet that claims “Everything in the news currently is a cover-up for the fact that they poisoned tens of millions of people for a fake ...
How does a vote of no confidence in the government work?
网页In January 2019 Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, put forward a “motion of no confidence” in Theresa May’s government following parliament’s heavy rejection of her Brexit withdrawal agreement. Calling a motion of no confidence is one of two ways that an early general election can be triggered, under the …
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