Lucy Gilder

London

Journalist, Home and Social Affairs at BBC

Journalist covering home and social affairs @BBCNews Verify team | @JSchofieldTrust Fellow 2024 | Views my own.

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Articles

How much vital UK infrastructure does China own?

1 week ago | bbc.com | Ben Chu |Lucy Gilder

Ben Chu & Lucy GilderBBC VerifyThe fate of the Scunthorpe steel works has shone a fresh spotlight on Chinese investment in the UK economy with critics raising questions over potential security risks. The British Steel plant had been owned by China's Jingye Steel. But the UK government has now taken control of the Scunthorpe site, amid claims the Chinese owners were planning to permanently decommission its two blast furnaces and use its rolling mills to process imported Chinese-made metal instead.
Is the US making $2bn from tariffs

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Gerry Georgieva |Tom Edgington |Lucy Gilder

Gerry Georgieva, Tom Edgington, Lucy GilderBBC VerifyPresident Trump has been justifying his sweeping tariffs with a series of claims about how the US is the victim of "unfair trade". He has imposed tariffs - or import taxes - on countries around the world, including a 104% rate on goods imported from China. In response, China is hiking its tariffs on American imports. Some of Trump's claims on trade are unsubstantiated or even false. BBC Verify has been taking a closer look.
Is the US making $2bn a day from tariffs? Trump claims fact-checked

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Gerry Georgieva |Tom Edgington |Lucy Gilder

6 hours agoBringing manufacturing back to the USA is an ideological cornerstone of Donald Trump's economic policy. It's aimed not just at pushing foreign firms to invest in America, but at forcing US companies to onshore their own production lines. Squarely in the firing line is one of the country's largest …
Has the government really 'returned' 24,000 people?

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Tom Edgington |Lucy Gilder |Rob England

Has the government really 'returned' 24,000 people? Tom Edgington, Lucy Gilder & Rob EnglandPA MediaSir Keir Starmer has highlighted his government efforts to tackle illegal immigration, saying: "We've returned more than 24,000 people who have no right to be here." He was speaking at an international summit in London aimed at tackling people-smuggling gangs.
Were Biden's pardons signed with autopen?

1 month ago | bbc.com | Lucy Gilder

No evidence for Trump claim about 'void' Biden pardons and autopenWhite HousePresident Trump has said "many" pardons issued by Joe Biden are void because the former president signed them with "autopen" - a device which reproduces a person's signature - rather than by hand. Trump did not provide evidence for his claim - which was posted on Truth Social. BBC Verify has found several instances of Biden signing pardons by hand rather than by autopen.
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech to Congress

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Lucy Gilder |Jake Horton |Ben Chu

Lucy Gilder, Jake Horton & Ben ChuBBC VerfiyIn his address to Congress, which ran for more than an hour and a half, President Donald Trump made a series of claims about the state of the US under his predecessor Joe Biden and the achievements of his first weeks in office. He returned to key campaign themes including illegal immigration, rising prices and what he called “appalling waste” in government spending. BBC Verify has looked into the facts behind some of his key claims.
Fact-checking Donald Trump's speech to Congress

1 month ago | bbc.com | Lucy Gilder |Jake Horton |Ben Chu

Fact-checking Trump's address to CongressLucy Gilder, Jake Horton & Ben ChuGetty ImagesIn his address to Congress, which ran for more than an hour and a half, President Donald Trump made a series of claims about the state of the US under his predecessor Joe Biden and the achievements of his first weeks in office. He returned to key campaign themes including illegal immigration, rising prices and what he called "appalling waste" in government spending.
Fact-checking Trump's address to Congress

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Lucy Gilder |Jake Horton |Ben Chu

9 hours agoDemocratic Rep. Al Green removed after disrupting Trump's speechGreen, who has called for the president's impeachment, was escorted out of the chamber during Trump's joint address to Congress. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, was removed from the House chamber Tuesday night after he disrupted President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress.
Fact-checking Donald Trump's speech to Congress

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Lucy Gilder |Jake Horton |Ben Chu

NowSupreme Court rejects Trump bid to keep $2 billion in foreign aid frozenWashington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt a lower court order that required the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion …4 hours agoUS and Israel reject Arab alternative to Trump's Gaza planThe US and Israel have rejected an Arab plan for the post-war reconstruction of the Gaza Strip that would allow the 2.1 million Palestinians living there to stay in place.
News Sniffer

1 month ago | newssniffer.co.uk | Merlyn Thomas |Lucy Gilder |Jake Horton

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevyzkdx73yo Version 6 of 7. Vice-presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance sparred on stage during their one and only debate of the 2024 US election campaign. Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, and Vance, a Republican senator representing Ohio, traded claims on key election issues including immigration, foreign policy and reproductive rights.