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Monday, 3 August 2026
Today’s news, with the data and without the spin
Trending · Finance
7 articles across 7 outlets · edited by Trend, figures counted from the coverage
Sentiment
Across all Trend monitored news outlets · 7 articles
The total the government spends each year, on public services, welfare, debt interest and everything else. This is the other side of the equation from tax. When spending outruns what tax brings in, the government borrows the difference and adds to the national debt future taxpayers carry; when tax covers it, the debt need not grow.
Source: Office for National Statistics / HM Treasury
Coverage: UK
The next most-covered stories, measured the same way. Each one sits on a board where the numbers behind it live.
Trending · Society
Small boat crossings policy
12 articles across 7 outlets · edited by Trend, figures counted from the coverage
Sentiment
Across all Trend monitored news outlets · 12 articles
Trending · Society
Small boat crossings policy
Andy Burnham has pledged to be "relentless" on small boat crossings, announcing more officers to tackle smuggling gangs while arguing safe routes are also needed.
Data
Small Boats
People detected arriving in the United Kingdom in small boats across the English Channel each month, recorded by the Home Office since 2018. It is one route of irregular migration, not the whole of it, and it counts arrivals, not asylum claims or grants.
See this and every other society figure Trend holds on the Society board.
Left
Summary
The left stresses the safe-routes half: renewed control of the Channel and safe routes for refugees framed as the way to break smuggling gangs.
Sentiment
Across left-leaning outlets · 3 articles
Centre
Summary
The centre presents both halves of the pledge: increased enforcement alongside the PM’s argument that more safe routes are also needed.
Sentiment
Across centre outlets · 2 articles
Right
Summary
The right foregrounds the numbers still arriving and tests the government’s “the plan is working” claim against them.
Sentiment
Across right-leaning outlets · 7 articles
Trending · Health
Social care
4 articles across 4 outlets · edited by Trend, figures counted from the coverage
Sentiment
Across all Trend monitored news outlets · 4 articles
Trending · Health
Social care
Andy Burnham is pushing to reform how England pays for social care, reviving debate over a levy to fund it, a problem successive governments have left unsolved.
Data
Total Health Spending
What the UK spends on healthcare each year, public and private, across all four UK nations. This is broader than the NHS budget announced at a Budget, which is day-to-day funding for the health service in England.
See this and every other health figure Trend holds on the Health board.
Left
Headline
'Andy Burnham's levy on all estates would be the fairest option to ensure social care'Daily Mirror
Summary
The left backs reform and presses the funding question, with the Mirror urging Burnham to hold firm on a social-care levy as the fairest option.
Sentiment
Across left-leaning outlets · 2 articles
Centre
Summary
The centre focuses on the cost to households, spelling out who would end up paying for the plan.
Sentiment
Across centre outlets · 1 article
Right
Headline
We need to finally fix social care but who will have to pay? This is Money PodcastDaily Mail
Summary
The right is sceptical, asking whether Burnham can succeed on social care where a string of predecessors failed.
Sentiment
Across right-leaning outlets · 1 article
Trending · Economy
Cost of living support
7 articles across 6 outlets · edited by Trend, figures counted from the coverage
Sentiment
Across all Trend monitored news outlets · 7 articles
Trending · Economy
Cost of living support
With prices squeezed by the Middle East conflict, Chancellor John Healey has promised cost-of-living relief and warned retailers against profiteering.
Data
Inflation Rate
Inflation is how fast prices are rising across the economy, measured as the change in the cost of a typical basket of goods and services over the past year. When it rises, money buys less and the pound in your pocket stretches less far; when it falls, prices are climbing more slowly, though not usually going down.
See this and every other economy figure Trend holds on the Economy board.
Left
Summary
The left highlights the promise that relief is ‘on its way’ and the chancellor’s warning to retailers against profiteering as the Middle East war lifts prices.
Sentiment
Across left-leaning outlets · 5 articles
Right
Summary
The right frames his options as narrowing: reviving profiteering threats to retailers and hinting at North Sea drilling as public finances tighten.
Sentiment
Across right-leaning outlets · 2 articles
The next most-covered stories, measured the same way. Each one sits on a board where the numbers behind it live.
Trending · Society
Andy Burnham has pledged to be "relentless" on small boat crossings, announcing more officers to tackle smuggling gangs while arguing safe routes are also needed.
Sentiment
12 articles · 7 outlets
Trending · Health
Andy Burnham is pushing to reform how England pays for social care, reviving debate over a levy to fund it, a problem successive governments have left unsolved.
Sentiment
4 articles · 4 outlets
Trending · Economy
With prices squeezed by the Middle East conflict, Chancellor John Healey has promised cost-of-living relief and warned retailers against profiteering.
Sentiment
7 articles · 6 outlets