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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

How many prime ministers have there been in your lifetime? I’ve made a handy chart for those born since 1926…

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🚨ACTIVATE THE FLOWCHART🚨 The Labour leadership election process explained

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Is the failure of the assisted dying bill — after months stuck in the Lords — unconstitutional? I’ve been speaking to some of Britain’s leading constitutional experts for my latest FactCheck: www.channel4.com/news/factche...

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FactCheck: why did assisted dying bill fail and is that constitutional?

We’ve spoken to leading constitutional experts.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

NEW: I've crunched the stats and these are the places that could have highest proportion of mansion tax payers after today's #budget. In Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea, more than a quarter of homes sold in the last three years were worth over £2m.

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Rory Peck Trust @rorypecktrust.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Delighted to welcome Tami Hoffman, Director of Public Policy @theguardian.com to our stellar panel @georginalee.bsky.social FactCheck & Data News Editor @channel4news.bsky.social, Dr Manny Ahmed Founder & CEO @openorigins.bsky.social. Join us at The Frontline Club, London, Tues 23 Sept at 7pm.

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Rory Peck Trust @rorypecktrust.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

An expert panel discussion is coming to the home of independent journalism in London, @frontlineclub inc @georginalee.bsky.social 🤩 Tuesday 23 Sept, 7pm. Get your tickets here 🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-discussion-tackling-fake-news-misinformation-tickets-1517411501649?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I’m looking forward to talking all things misinformation with @rorypecktrust.bsky.social at the Frontline Club on 23 September!

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

✨Career highlight✨ I was lucky enough to attend this year’s BAFTAs on Sunday, cheering on TWO nominations for @channel4news.bsky.social — including one for a story I worked on: Undercover Inside Reform’s Campaign. No home win on this occasion but an incredible night with fantastic colleagues.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

How many election promises has Donald Trump kept in his first 100 days? You can find out at our new web platform, launching today: TrumpTracker. There you'll hear him make his pledges and read verdicts on his progress against each one from the FactCheck team. channel4.com/trump

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TrumpTracker: What Donald Trump promised in 2024, and what he’s done so far

Donald Trump made dozens of promises in the 2024 election campaign. So, how much has he achieved — or not — so far in his second term?

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Very exciting that a story I worked on - Undercover Inside Reform's Campaign - has been nominated for a BAFTA. And with two of three nominations going to @channel4news.bsky.social, fingers crossed for a home team win!

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

You can find out what's happening in your local hospital with our brand new tool, NurseCheck. Head to: channel4.com/nursecheck

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FactCheck reveals: England’s missing nurses

These are the secret NHS files you weren’t supposed to see.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

BREAKING: After a ten-month battle our FactCheck team has obtained NHS data revealing 1 in 3 of England's hospitals are missing at least 10% of their planned-for nurses across their wards.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I'm very pleased to be featured in this @reutersinstitute.bsky.social / @ox.ac.uk report by the BBC's Tom Edginton. We discussed the history of the Channel 4 News FactCheck team here at ITN, and the future of fact-checking. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New data from the Office for National Statistics tells us about murder victims and perpetrators. Perhaps the most shocking finding is that babies under 1 year are the single age group most at risk of homicide. These horrific crimes happen to 20 in every million babies.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

More than half of British men say they could fully or partially explain what crypto is - compared to only a 35% of women. [Data was released a few days ago by the ONS]

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Astonishing data from Scotland today reveals how women are much more likely than men to be providing unpaid care. A thread on what I've found in the official stats: 1. Women aged 25 to 34 are 80% more likely than men of the same age to be unpaid carers.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

How many people wait longer than 12 hours on a trolley after doctors have decided to admit them to hospital? In December 2011, this happened to 4 patients in England's NHS. In December 2024, it happened to 54,207 patients.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🚨NEW NHS ENGLAND DATA🚨 Nearly 680,000 people waited over four hours in A&E last month - up 30,000 since November. That's more than NINE TIMES higher than in December 2011.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

How many elective care cases* are still waiting for treatment 18 weeks after being referred by a GP? In 2007, when records began under the last Labour government, it was 1.8 million. In 2010, when the Coalition took office, it was 210,000. In the latest stats - October 2024 - it's 3.1 million.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🚨 NEW NHS stats show flu positivity rates rocketing among 5 to 14-year-olds, as well as younger adults 🚨

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🚨 NEW stats reveal the flu crisis hitting the NHS this winter 🚨 The proportion of tests coming back positive for flu - a good proxy for the rate of flu in the wider population - is already much higher than it was this time last year.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

NEW: Average UK electricity bills have more than doubled in twenty years - even though consumption has dropped 25%.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

NEW: Which areas of Britain have seen the biggest rises in house prices in the last 20 years? Top of today's list are: 🏠 SHETLAND ⬆️316% since 2004 🏠 ORKNEY ⬆️193% 🏠 PENDLE ⬆️171% 🏠 HACKNEY ⬆️169% 🏠 MANCHESTER ⬆️165% 🏠 WALTHAM FOREST ⬆️162%

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

NEW: The average FIRST TIME BUYER in Kensington & Chelsea is paying £966,344 to get on the housing ladder. That's the most expensive area in Britain for FTBs, followed by: 🏠Westminster (£873,912) 🏠City of London (£731,332) 🏠Camden (£677,607)

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

NEW data out this week reveals the places where locals were most likely to sponsor a Ukrainian through the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As of September, the top three were: ◾ Kensington ◾ Derbyshire Dales ◾ Merton (SW London)

Table showing local authorities with the largest proportion of Homes for Ukraine sponsors. Kensington, Derbyshire Dales and Merton are highest, with 0.56 per cent or more taking part in the scheme.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

NEW: You can only afford to buy an average-priced house today if you're in the top 10% of earners in England. And that's the top 10% of earners of *all age groups* - not just the top earners among young people...

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New stats reveal the most popular baby boy's name last year was Muhammad. But more interesting are the *least* popular names... CLIVE (4 babies born last year) TERRENCE (4) TORY (4) TITAN (4) ...and below them with 3 babies each: ARCHIMEDES, and HUCKLEBERRY

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

NEW: ONS figures on life expectancy came out today. These are the places that saw the biggest rises since 2003: Camden gained 5.6 years Lambeth gained 5.3 years Inverclyde gained 5.3 years Tower Hamlets gained 5.2 years Shetland gained 5.1 years

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Chris Morris @morrischris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Good discussion at the #OfCom conference yesterday. There’s lots to do!

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I was very pleased to be invited to talk about misinformation at Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media conference yesterday — alongside @morrischris.bsky.social of Full Fact and Richard Burgess from the BBC.

Three panellists (me, Chris Morris from Full Fact and Richard Burgess from the BBC) are talking on a stage.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Boris Johnson has made the claim now in French that the UK* got vaccines faster thanks to Brexit. This is incorrect. *he says Angleterre but let’s assume he means UK

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What are the government's plans for inheritance tax on farms and who will have to pay? Our FactCheck team takes a look. www.channel4.com/news/factche...

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FactCheck: inheritance tax on farms, explained

The Treasury says only about a quarter of farm estates that are passed on will actually pay any inheritance tax.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Winter sun on a lunchtime stroll 🌿

The sun shines through trees in a courtyard with an ornate lamppost in the foreground

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We've been looking at how the new inheritance tax on farms will work - and why the apparent mismatch between Treasury figures and those from farming groups isn't what it seems...

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Channel 4 News is officially on Bluesky

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Eye-popping stat of the day 👀 The people of Kensington will pay more in inheritance tax than everyone in the North East of England combined.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

NEW: Spending watchdog report out today shows a significant rise in Universal Credit fraud and error since Covid - costing £6.5bn last year. The Department for Work & Pensions says we won't return to pre-pandemic levels because of "an increasing propensity for fraud in society".

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

With followers on here relatively easy to come by, I wonder if the new currency will be engagement with individual posts?

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Looking for Channel 4 News journalists, editors, producers and staff? You’re in luck: go.bsky.app/6HZ1mvW

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My good friend, former FactCheck emperor and now best-selling author of THE PARTISAN and THE EXILE @patrickworrall.bsky.social has joined Bluesky and is worth a follow. While you're at it, check out his books. If you like rich historical WWII/Cold War spy thrillers, he's your man.

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

NEW: Nearly 1 in 3 Brits in their 30s and 40s says they're doing worse in life than their parents were at their age. That's more than any other age group. This is new data from the ONS Social Mobility Survey out today. Let's take a look...

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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Bluesky old hands! Can anyone help with this 'invalid handle' issue? I've tried a fix that Bluesky recommended last year but to no avail.

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