A clip shows GB News presenter Patrick Christys reporting that 43 Labour MPs have “just resigned” after “the biggest UK scandal in decades” in which £22 billion has “vanished” from Labour’s finances.
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- Full FactFalse. There has been no mass resignation of Labour MPs and there is no evidence of any such scandal. This is not a real clip of Mr Christys—it was almost certainly created with artificial intelligence.
2025-08-27
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