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In the newsletter this week
* No evidence 75% of England’s mayors are Muslim
* How many immigrants have arrived in the UK in recent years?
* No, Reform UK did not edit an image of a house in Gorton and Denton
* Government Tracker
* More articles...
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We've recently seen several claims about the popularity of the Prime Minister, with some suggesting it’s at historic lows, and the Times referring to Sir Keir Starmer as “the most unpopular prime minister in history”.
There are various different ways pollsters measure prime ministerial popularity. We’ve taken a look at what some recent polls have said about Mr Starmer’s satisfaction, favourability and approval ratings, and how they compare with previous PMs’ ratings.
Read our fact check here ([link removed])
Also this week...
Fact checkers have faced a persistent problem: content that vanishes from the web after we check it. MediaVault addresses this, meaning our fact checks always link to an accurate snapshot of what we verified.
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More fact checks from this week ↓
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** No evidence 75% of England’s mayors are Muslim ([link removed])
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By: Sian Bayley ([link removed])
A claim that 75% of England’s mayors are Muslim has been shared thousands of times online.
Some of these posts include an image of 18 people it appears to claim are mayors across various locations in England.
So how many directly elected UK Mayors are Muslim?
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** How many immigrants have arrived in the UK in recent years? ([link removed])
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By: Hannah Smith ([link removed])
Last week the British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe sparked debate by telling. Sky News: “The UK’s been colonised by immigrants really, hasn’t it. I mean the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020. Now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people.”
As many have pointed out, these figures are inaccurate.
We’ve written in detail about net migration patterns in recent years as well as how it is measured—here’s a brief summary of what we know.
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** No, Reform UK did not edit an image of a house in Gorton and Denton ([link removed])
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By: Hannah Smith ([link removed])
Posts shared on social media have claimed Reform UK edited its own placards into an image of a house in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election.
This isn’t true—in actual fact, the image used to make this claim appears to have been edited.
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** Government Tracker ([link removed])
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A selection of updates from the last seven days.
** Tuesday 17 February
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Has the government delivered 13,000 additional neighbourhood police? ([link removed])
** Wednesday 18 February
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Is the government delivering on its pledge to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote? ([link removed])
Has the government updated the rules on voter ID? ([link removed])
** More articles...
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** Picture of Keir Starmer hugging Lord Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney isn’t real ([link removed])
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** This comparison of asylum support, benefit fraud and tax avoidance costs is still wrong ([link removed])
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By: Hannah Smith ([link removed])
** AI-generated image of Jeffrey Epstein ‘alive in Tel Aviv’ circulates online ([link removed])
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By: Sian Bayley ([link removed])
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