Alongside the excellent @danieljdunford.bsky.social and @joelysantacruz.bsky.social I have crunched some of the numbers on yesterday's Greater Manchester by-election for Sky News here: news.sky.com/story/comfor...

Comfortable victory, but uncomfortable numbers for Labour in Greater Manchester

Bev Craig's triumph was great news for Labour - but zoom out and the figures show that Labour's first preference share was down 16 points on Andy Burnham's 2024 win.

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Find the result from your ward, and lots more council election analysis from the Sky Data x Forensics team and @drjennings.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/englis...

The ONS has updated its disposable income data, including a revision to older figures. It now reveals that living standards fell between Dec 2019 and Jun 2024 - the first time that disposable income has been lower at the end of a parliament than the start

It's still a bit early to assess in full, but we had a go at tracking how some of Labour's big pledges are going so far - to mark their first year in power. In short, perhaps surprisingly good news on certain economic measures, but not much to get excited about on the main policy targets (1/4) 🧵

The government are trying to draw links between better weather this year and more small boat Channel crossings. The link is there, but it's not as simple as that. What they're not telling us is that there's also been a big rise in crossings on days when the weather is not good.

Have there been more plane crashes this year? The short answer is no, but there is one big reason why you might think there have been… There have been almost 10m flights so far this year. That’s a lot, it’s 10% higher than had been recorded by this time in 2024 (1/6 🧵)

We're not in a post-truth world yet, so I had a look at some of Trump's recent claims about the size of his... election victory. 1. "We won all the swing states and by historic margins." Sweeping them was impressive, but 'historic margins' is a bit of a stretch. Many of Obama's were larger 🧵