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Keir Starmer opens Downing Street’s door this week for guests from schoolchildren singing carols to MPs and hacks, trooping in to meet the PM over English sparkling wine. Starmer will be looking forward to a few days off. He looks and sounds tired after undertaking a punishing travel schedule to…

Round up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

Puberty blockers for under-18s ban announced after warning of ‘unacceptable risk’ to children

While health is a devolved matter, the ban applies across the UK.

Labour MPs hit out at the policy, with Kate Osborne saying the move ‘removes the clinical expertise from medical decision making’.

Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply for gender dysphoria will be made indefinite after expert advice

Wes Streeting warns over the ‘unacceptable safety risk’ in continued prescription of puberty blockers to children

Shabana Mahmood was one of 275 MPs who voted against the legislation when it was put before the House of Commons in November.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told NHS leaders to ‘put patients ahead of targets’.