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Posts are spreading rapidly on social media. They claim that Euan Blair, son of former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair, has been handed the contract to run the UK’s new digital ID scheme.
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** No evidence for Donald Trump’s Sharia law claim about London ([link removed])
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By: Tony Thompson ([link removed])
At the UN, US President Donald Trump claimed London wants “to go to Sharia law”.
There’s no evidence for this. It’s not clear what he meant by this, but neither the Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, nor the city itself has ever sought to introduce Sharia law.
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** Police: no evidence men were stealing swan to eat ([link removed])
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A photo of two men holding a swan at Winsford Marina in Cheshire has gone viral with claims they were intending to eat it.
But police say there’s no evidence for this. Officers said the men appeared to be posing for a picture.
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** Did immigration increase four-fold under the Conservatives? ([link removed])
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By: Hannah Smith ([link removed])
After his Labour conference speech, Sir Keir Starmer claimed immigration had increased four-fold under the Conservatives in five years.
That’s not right. Net migration did roughly quadruple between 2018 and 2023, but immigration itself almost doubled, not quadrupled.
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** Government Tracker
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** Full Fact’s Government Tracker: what does it tell us about Labour’s first year? ([link removed])
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