At PMQs last week Sir Keir Starmer claimed the number of returns had seen a 30% increase compared to last year

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** Did living standards go down under the Conservatives? ([link removed])
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Speaking at the launch of the government’s “Plan for Change” last week, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed that living standards “went down” under the previous government.

It’s not immediately clear which time period or living standards metric Mr Starmer was referring to, and we’ve asked Number 10 for details. But analysis of the latest figures from the IFS and Resolution Foundation shows Real Household Disposable Income—perhaps the most commonly used measure of living standards—has increased since 2010.
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At Prime Minister’s Questions last week the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed: “9,400 people who have no right to be here have been returned. That is a 30% increase on the numbers of last year.”

The 9,400 figure seems to refer to the number of enforced and voluntary returns of people with no right to be in the UK between 5 July and 28 October 2024. But we don’t have corresponding data for the same period in 2023, so we can’t say how big an increase this represents.
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A picture circulating on social media is claimed to be the first of Syria’s ousted President Bashar al-Assad and his wife in Moscow.

Full Fact has used Google Lens to identify the source of the image, which is a still from a video showing the pair visiting earthquake victims in Aleppo, Syria, in February 2023.

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