Ben Butcher

London

Data Editor at The Telegraph

Data Editor @Telegraph || Formerly fact-checker @BBCRealityCheck and News Analysis || Tweets my views, no one elses

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Articles

Labour rebels at risk of losing seats over Starmer's benefits cuts

2 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tony Diver |Ben Butcher |Ollie Corfe |Dominic Penna

MPs have long complained that while Labour pushes through its agenda in Parliament with its large majority, constituents confront them at the weekend with concerns about Sir Keir's policies. Meanwhile, Reform UK has made significant gains in many of the so-called Red Wall marginals, many of which are poorer than the average. Labour MPs say that constituents elected the party on the promise of protecting the lower-paid and vulnerable, and Sir Keir risks driving those voters away with his reforms.
How mass migration will transform your town

3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Butcher |Charles Hymas |Mariana Hallal

Across 173 local areas, around one in three of the total, a complete ban on migration would lead to population decline, with Birmingham, Newham and Manchester among those losing over 100,000 residents in this scenario. Urban areas, such as Newham, Birmingham, Brent, Westminster and Manchester are all expected to see UK-based residents move away and be replaced with a steady flow of migrants.
How bad is crime in your area? Use our tool to find out

1 week ago | msn.com | Ben Butcher |Rachel Matthews

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How bad is crime in your area? Use our tool to find out

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Butcher |Rachel Matthews

Rural areas tend to have less crime than urban areas. How to use this calculatorTo use this calculator, you input your postcode into the tool. This will take you to your neighbourhood, which we define using the Office for National Statistics Middle Layer Super Output Areas. Once at your neighbourhood level, you can click on different crime types to see the number of crimes and the number of crimes solved by year.
How bad is crime in your area? Use our tool to find out

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ben Butcher

With near record rates of knife crime, shoplifting and pickpocketing, it can often seem like crime is out of control. Indeed, some categories of offence now appear to have been almost abandoned by police, leaving many parts of Britain reeling from a sense of lawlessness. Use our tool to see how many crimes are committed on your street – and how many the police are able to solve. Is crime increasing across the UK?
The map that shows how Britain gave up on fighting crime

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lizzie Dearden |Ben Butcher

Newcastle's Central Snooker Club building was a vision of luxury when it opened in the 1970s. It contained a hotel, bars and a health club, all linked by walkways in the sky. But for decades it has been mostly derelict, with the sprawling multi-storey complex now completely covered in graffiti and pockmarked with burn marks and smashed windows. The only person making use of the sheltered arcade that once linked up restaurants and a nightclub is a man urinating in a shuttered doorway.
Spanish overtakes French as most popular foreign language GCSE

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Poppy Wood |Ben Butcher

Holidays to the Balearic Islands have helped make Spanish the most popular foreign language choice at GCSE, a union has claimed. GCSE entries for Spanish rose by 1.6 per cent to 131,965 this summer, provisional data for England show, edging French off the top spot for the first time in more than a decade. Spanish has risen in popularity in recent years, with GCSE entries jumping almost half since 2014, when 89,450 teenagers took the subject.
How Starmer’s immigration crackdown could kill off the Mickey Mouse degree

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Tom Haynes |Ben Butcher

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How Starmer's immigration crackdown could kill off the Mickey Mouse degree

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tom Haynes |Ben Butcher

The crackdown on universities' reliance on overseas students comes a year after Rishi Sunak pledged to scrap "rip-off" degrees that the former prime minister claimed "make students poorer", in favour of more funding for high-skill apprenticeships. Edinburgh Napier University similarly relies on overseas students for two-thirds of its fee income. The university raked in £46m from foreign students in 2023-24. However, a typical ENU graduate earns £29,200 a year five years after graduation.
Why a blank cheque won’t solve Britain’s policing woes

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Danny Shaw |Ben Butcher

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