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A senior reporter at the BBC, specialising in political fact-checking and public policy.

As part of BBC Verify, the corporation’s open-source journalism unit, Tom investigates the claims of senior politicians and public figures across TV, radio, and digital platforms.

During his time at the University of Oxford, Tom was a 2024-25 Reuters Institute Journalism Fellow, where he examined how fact-check journalism influences political behaviour.

Through interviews with senior politicians and stra…

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Prison recalls up 28% in England and Wales, new figures reveal

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By Tom Edgington Verified, Harriet Agerholm
| Yahoo Verified
There has been a large rise in the number of offenders being recalled to prisons in England and Wales having been released on licence, new government figures show. There were 51,419 licence recalls in the year ending March 2026, up from 40,259 in the previous year - a 28% increase. Although recalls in January to March were slightly lower than the previous three-month period, they remain well above historical levels.
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Andy Burnham's first week pledges – how much do they add up to?

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By Ben Chu Verified, Tom Edgington Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Andy Burnham is ending his first week as prime minister by working out of Manchester in the new No 10 North for the first time. He spent this week making a series of spending announcements mostly aimed at tackling the cost of living, including capping bus fares. BBC Verify has looked at Burnham's first week of spending commitments, how much they cost and how the government says they will be paid for, which comes to about £1.5bn.
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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
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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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