👤 David Barrett

10 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
10
2026-09-07 – 2026-10-20
Claims per article
41
406 extracted in total
Hedged claims
7%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
6,343
characters · 1 tagged analysis
Writes for Daily Mail.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
60%
Crime & Law
30%
World
10%
Most-tagged topics
LabourBritainConservativesDoverEnglandFrenchGosportHampshire

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
6 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages +0.02 (centre).

More from this journalist

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2026-09-21 · Daily Mail · Crime & Law
Security breach as dinghy evades Border Force and lands at Folkestone - with some migrants 'fleeing before police arrive'
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-13 · Daily Mail · Crime & Law
Another 650 criminals are freed from prisons across England and Wales in the second tranche of Labour's early release bonanza
4 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-10-01 · Daily Mail · Crime & Law
Thugs in every postcode! Labour frees first of TEN tidal waves of convicts... there will be tens of thousands a year - and they will get nastier every month
4 outlets covered this event
2026-09-23 · Daily Mail · World
Bayeux travesty! Packed migrant mega-dinghy's 38-hour crossing from Normandy to the UK - escorted by the French navy...
3 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-09-23 · Daily Mail · Politics
Border Force fails to intercept second small boat in 24 hours: Dinghy carrying 30 landed on Kent beach at same time 51 Channel migrants were escorted to the UK
2 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-10-20 · Daily Mail · Politics
'They love saying us girls are all falling out': Angela Rayner suggests sexism is behind claims of Cabinet rift over immigration plans
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-07 · Daily Mail
Labour 'chickens out' on curbing migrant rights: Mahmood vowed crackdown but nearly a year on she hasn't acted
🔮 It would also see those who commit crimes, pay less tax or claim benefits, punished by having to wait even longer for settled status. assertive
2026-09-21 · Daily Mail
Security breach as dinghy evades Border Force and lands at Folkestone - with some migrants 'fleeing before police arrive'
🔮 'Illegal immigrants are now landing in our coast at will,' the Conservative frontbencher said. assertive
2026-09-23 · Daily Mail
Bayeux travesty! Packed migrant mega-dinghy's 38-hour crossing from Normandy to the UK - escorted by the French navy...
🔮 Before the French sailors handed over to the RNLI in the Channel Meanwhile protesters - some wearing masks - gathered in Gosport and Portsmouth, Hampshire, as reports suggested the dinghy may dock nearby Gosport's MP Caroline Dineage said the boat had been rerouted to Dover but some protesters remained in the town Photos last night showed the migrants making their way into a Border Security Command compound in Dover Those pictured had their hoods up and were mostly wearing hats and orange life jackets French authorities, who shadowed the dinghy across the Channel, said they decided not to intervene due to safety concerns. As tides took the boat back towards the French coast on Monday evening, it was so close to shore another ten to 15 migrants were able to board, it is claimed. assertive
2026-09-23 · Daily Mail
Border Force fails to intercept second small boat in 24 hours: Dinghy carrying 30 landed on Kent beach at same time 51 Channel migrants were escorted to the UK
🔮 - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is under fire over a second 'uncontrolled landing' by migrants on British shores in just two days. Up to 30 migrants reached a Kent beach by small boat on Tuesday before police reached the scene. Officials confirmed 21 people were detained and taken to a Home Office facility, where they will be processed ahead of lodging asylum claims in Britain. assertive
2026-09-30 · Daily Mail
Moment Hamas-supporting asylum seeker who called for death to Jews gets British teens to chant 'Free Palestine' - as he is moved from taxpayer-funded house
🔮 A man believed to be Palestinian small-boat migrant Abu Wadee is seen leaving an asylum HMO in Corby earlier today - an ankle tag visible beneath his trousers Wadee - seen speaking on his doorstep earlier this week - says he no longer supports Hamas A man who identified himself as a housing officer was seen loading bags of possessions into the taxi before it left with Wadee inside Following his release from prison in December, Wadee was housed at the property alongside three other migrants under the Home Office's asylum dispersal scheme. He was traced to the house earlier this week, claiming he no longer supported Hamas, had Jewish friends and wanted to stay in the UK. The videos show Wadee at the Willow Place Shopping Centre in Corby, around a mile-and-a-half from the HMO. assertive
2026-10-01 · Daily Mail
Thugs in every postcode! Labour frees first of TEN tidal waves of convicts... there will be tens of thousands a year - and they will get nastier every month
🔮 In a mammoth expansion of Labour's previous early release initiative, those being freed will, from December, include violent criminals handed more than four years' imprisonment. assertive
2026-10-06 · Daily Mail
Labour accused of 'riding roughshod' over historic naval town amid fears it is intentionally pushing small boat migrants towards Gosport
🔮 'We will work closely with partners to ensure public safety is maintained. assertive
2026-10-13 · Daily Mail
Another 650 criminals are freed from prisons across England and Wales in the second tranche of Labour's early release bonanza
🔮 Another 650 criminals will leave prisons across England and Wales today in the second tranche of Labour's early release scheme. assertive
2026-10-20 · Daily Mail
DAVID BARRETT: Labour's time bomb of up to 2.2million migrants set to win the right to remain here permanently
🔮 They will be able to stay in our country indefinitely, drawing on the full panoply of State benefits and being entitled to social housing. assertive
2026-10-20 · Daily Mail
'They love saying us girls are all falling out': Angela Rayner suggests sexism is behind claims of Cabinet rift over immigration plans
🔮 She warned that leaving ILR rules untouched would result in 'a £10 billion drain on our public finances' as migrants qualify for full access to benefits and social housing after winning permanent status here. assertive
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