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In the newsletter this week
* Bondi Beach misinformation
* Have teacher numbers gone up or down under Labour?
* How many Brits emigrated from the UK?
* Government Tracker
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But first...
Resident doctors (previously known as junior doctors) are on strike again in England, and claims are being made to support or discredit the justification for the strikes.

Labour MP Oliver Ryan suggested that resident doctors had a 29% pay increase last year, while the BMA claimed that resident doctors have had a 21% pay cut since 2008/9. We’ve surgically dissected both of these claims.
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Read: 21% pay cut ([link removed])
For a full account on what resident doctors earn and what the BMA are asking for in the latest round of strikes, read our recently updated explainer ([link removed]) .
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Jon
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P.S. This is the last Full Fact newsletter in 2025. We’ll be back in the new year with more fact checks and misinformation trends you need to look out for in 2026.
More fact checks from this week ↓
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** Bondi Beach misinformation ([link removed])
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By: Charlotte Green ([link removed])
We often see misinformation spreading widely after significant crisis events such as the recent mass shooting in Bondi Beach.

One image we’ve fact checked supposedly depicts a Bondi Beach victim having fake blood applied by a makeup artist. This image is AI.
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And other posts we checked misidentified the man who tackled one of the suspected gunmen.
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** Have teacher numbers gone up or down under Labour? ([link removed])
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By: Hannah Smith ([link removed])
Last week Keir Starmer claimed that there are more teachers than when the Conservatives left office, but Kemi Badenoch said there were 400 fewer teachers since the election.

Who needs to go back to maths class?
Read our verdict ([link removed])
This week, MPs quizzed the Prime Minister on his claim, referencing our fact check. You can watch his response here ([link removed]) .


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** How many Brits emigrated from the UK? ([link removed])
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By: Hannah Smith ([link removed])
Our fact checking team often looks into immigration claims but this week we’re looking at a couple of suspicious emigration claims. Did 695,000 Brits leave the UK last year or was that number actually much closer to 250,000?
Read the fact check → ([link removed])
We have also looked at another claim that 110,000 Brits between the ages of 16 and 34 have left the country since June of this year.
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** Government Tracker
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Updates from the last seven days.


** Tuesday 16 December
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Are 75% of England’s five-year-olds ‘ready to learn’? ([link removed])


** Friday 12 December
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Is the government on course to secure ‘the highest sustained growth in the G7’? ([link removed])


** More fact checks...
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** No, UK airports aren’t introducing £10 toilet fees ([link removed])
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By: Sian Bayley ([link removed])


** Donald Trump isn’t ‘buying England’ ([link removed])
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By: Nasim Asl ([link removed])


** False claims circulate that Sadiq Khan cancelled a royal event ([link removed])
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By: Charlotte Green ([link removed])
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