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Lucy Gilder

  • Journalist, Home and Social Affairs, BBC
London
As seen in: BBC, Bottom Line, MSN, MSN Singapore, BBC News, BBC News Brasil, MSN Malaysia, The Daily Mirror, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Yahoo News Australia and
Covers:  Home affairs: crime, policing, immigration, justice.
Journalist covering home and social affairs @BBCNews Verify team | @JSchofieldTrust Fellow 2024 | Views my own.

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Lucy Gilder’s Biography

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Home affairs specialist in the BBC Verify team. Writes fact checks and explainer articles on all things crime, justice, policing, and immigration.

Lucy Gilder’s Journalist Portfolio

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13 schools with RAAC had building work scrapped

13 schools with RAAC had building work scrapped

The schools were among those that lost out when Building Schools for the Future was cancelled.

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Are more small boats being stopped by French police?

Are more small boats being stopped by French police?

Health Secretary Steve Barclay claimed 40% more boats have been stopped this year than last year.

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Fact-checking claims about asylum seekers

Fact-checking claims about asylum seekers

The Conservatives and Labour have made claims about asylum seekers - are they true?

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Home plan: How much of Michael Gove's strategy is new?

Home plan: How much of Michael Gove's strategy is new?

The government plans to make it easier to convert commercial properties into homes.

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Do 'many' private schools cost the same as a family holiday?

Do 'many' private schools cost the same as a family holiday?

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has been criticised after making the comparison in Parliament.

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Rishi Sunak's claims on small boats fact checked

Rishi Sunak's claims on small boats fact checked

Rishi Sunak says his plan to tackle small boat crossings is "starting to work". We've examined a number of cl…

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Do declassified files support Trump's election security claims?

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By Anthony Zurcher Verified, Lucy Gilder, Tom Edgington Verified, Jake Horton Verified
| MSN Malaysia Verified
In a 26-minute speech from the White House, President Donald Trump revived some familiar claims about US election fraud and interference. Standing in the East Room – the same venue where Barack Obama announced the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 - Trump said the current election system was "catastrophically short" of being secure and that hundreds of declassified intelligence files would reveal these "shocking vulnerabilities".
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What the data does and doesn't tell us about asylum seekers in Northern Ireland

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By Rob England Verified, Matt Murphy Verified, Lucy Gilder, John Campbell Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Rob England; Matt Murphy; Lucy Gilder - BBC Verify; John Campbell - Economics and business editor, BBC Northern Ireland Wed, June 10, 2026 at 3:10 PM UTC 3 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police in Northern Ireland say a refugee charged with the attempted murder of a man in Belfast on Monday evening initially entered the country by crossing the border with the Republic of Ireland.
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How Trump's White House ballroom plan has doubled in size and cost over a year

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By Jake Horton Verified, Lucy Gilder
| Yahoo Verified
[Getty Images] In the year since US President Donald Trump announced plans to build a new ballroom at the White House, the proposals have grown to include a rooftop "drone port", an underground hospital and "top secret" military facilities - and the estimated price has doubled to $400m (£300m).
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

No

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Mikael Blomkvist

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

No