Kate Green, Labour’s shadow Education Secretary, claimed during a speech that “there are 4.3 million children growing up in poverty,” and that “three in ten children are growing up in families... that were struggling to put food on the table.”

Although you may assume that poverty and food insecurity are the same thing, Ms Green has highlighted the fact that they are different. Putting enough food on the table is a real struggle for many families, but not everyone classed as living in poverty also suffers from food insecurity.

According to data from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), there are indeed 4.3 million children in relative poverty at the start of 2020. Ms Green was right to say this represents about 30.7% of UK children. But the DWP did another survey which showed that only roughly 8% of all UK households either had low or very low food security.

Of the 4.3 million children in relative poverty Kate Green mentions, three-quarters of them were classed as being ‘food secure’.

A viral Facebook post claimed that all animals involved in Covid-19 vaccine studies died months later from immune disorders, sepsis and/or cardiac failure.

This is false. The post appears to be a screenshot of an online article which makes a number of incorrect claims.

The study this particular claim is based on was about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and published in 2012. It did not focus on Covid-19 vaccines, or even use the same technology that underpins the vaccines currently being used against Covid-19.

And even in this study, the animals were actually euthanised—they did not die in the ways described in the post.

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