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* Reform UK conference fact checked: vaccine and immigration claims
* Photos of recent Banksy mural edited to feature England flags
* What is a ‘gallbladder flush’, and does it actually remove gallstones from the body?
* Government Tracker
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Today at Prime Minister’s Questions Sir Keir Starmer said the UK’s “employment rate is up, inactivity is down and we’ve created over 380,000 jobs since we’ve been in power”.
In contrast, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly claimed ([link removed]) that under Labour unemployment has “gone up every single month”.
So who is right?
On these specific claims, Mr Starmer is correct and Ms Badenoch is incorrect. But measuring unemployment and jobs isn’t as straightforward as it looks. While it may sound contradictory, it’s true, for example, that so far under Labour the number of both employed and unemployed people has risen, and the rate of both employment and unemployment has increased too. For more detailed analysis see our explainer on how to accurately measure and communicate these figures.
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** Reform UK conference fact checked: vaccine and immigration claims ([link removed])
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By: Leo Benedictus ([link removed])
Reform UK’s party conference took place last weekend. We monitored the conference for claims to check, as we will for the other major party conferences in the coming weeks. Here’s what we found:
A cardiologist called Dr Aseem Malhotra (above), who we have fact checked before, made a series of claims about Covid vaccines, from causing cancer in the Royal Family to their general safety.
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We also heard claims about the number of people in the UK illegally. Read our analysis ([link removed]) .
** Photos of recent Banksy mural edited to feature England flags ([link removed])
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By: Evie Townend ([link removed])
The recent Banksy mural outside the Royal Courts of Justice may now be (partly) removed, two days after it was put up, but it has taken on a new lease of life online, through edited photos, presented as the original.
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** What is a ‘gallbladder flush’, and does it actually remove gallstones from the body? ([link removed])
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By: Jess Hacker ([link removed])
A ‘liver and gallbladder flush’ involves drinking olive oil and eating apples—or similar variations—and there are claims it can “flush out” gallbladder stones.
This is not a proven treatment. The stones “flushed” out of a person’s body are unlikely to be gallstones, and research has demonstrated that they’re probably created by the “flush” diet itself.
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** Government Tracker
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Full Fact’s most recent updates to our tracker of government policy.
** Tuesday 9 September
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* Has the government reversed changes to the monitoring of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate? ([link removed])
** Monday 8 September
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* Will the government create a National Care Service? ([link removed])
* Is the government on track to train thousands more midwives? ([link removed])
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