Interview · 4 Oct 2026
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview
Video: YouTube: BBC Politics (official channel). Retrieved 5 Oct 2026.
Some bluff & spinProvisional
145 sentences · 14 checked claims · 24 questions
What makes up this item's score
DefinitionsAccuracy75%
Checked claims that hold upadds 12.5 of 50.0
Supported“you could lose [10–20,000] worth of child care.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Institute for Fiscal Studies · ITV News
Supported“elderly people earning [10–12,000] a year on the state pension.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · House of Commons Library
Partly supported“In 2010 when the conservative coalition started what we saw was a lot of pension and poverty. That policy was brought in to fix that.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · House of Commons Library · Pensions Policy Institute
Partly supported“Andy [Burnham] has not explained how changing the triple lock funds his policy.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · City AM · Politics.co.uk
Contradicted by evidence“our economy is not growing.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Office for National Statistics
Supported“an explosion in the number of people who are claiming for low-level conditions which they can work with ADHD anxiety”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · The Telegraph (via Yahoo News)
Not supported“because of the stopping of face-to-face assessments during COVID understandable reasons people have worked out how to game the system”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · Disability News Service
Partly supported“the increase in disability claimments has been higher in the UK than it has been in Ukraine where they're actually at war.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · Department for Work and Pensions
Supported“We have now one in four people in our population self-reporting as disabled.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · House of Commons Library
Supported“We built about 14,000 I think places when we were in government but by the time you looked at the number of places that closed net there wasn't enough.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Full Fact · Ministry of Justice
Supported“We saw with [Starmer's] early release that happened I think last year. Someone went out and killed within 24 hours.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Teesside Gazette (Gazette Live) · Inside Time
Supported“It's about half.”
Interview, 4 Oct 2026 · Ministry of Justice (deposited in Parliament) · Ministry of Justice
Answers questions60%
Questions answered straightadds 19.8 of 50.0
Partly answeredQ: “Would someone who earns a million pounds a year get free childare under a conservative government?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “But at a time when a lot of people are genuinely worried about putting food on the table, about paying their energy bills, why is it the right thing t…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “but you could taper in the support or you could bring in a means test. Wouldn't that be the right thing to do?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
DodgedQ: “But even if you think the amounts wouldn't be that big, is it a good use of taxpayers money to subsidize incredibly wealthy, high earning people to he…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “When your shadow foreign secretary has said it's unsustainable, when the former Conservative Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said it's unaffordable and imm…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “Let's just stick on this because you're right there. There are different issues around working age welfare and we'll come to that. But I do want to st…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “The growth of the bill for this is potentially absolutely huge. And you've written a 100page document saying you want to be careful with public money.…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “It's not a ledger a number on the the ledger or a number on the balance sheet. It's an enormous amount of money. 177 billion pounds goes on social sec…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
DodgedQ: “This is on the triple system. Is she wrong about that?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “But just on this point about the protecting pensioners incomes in this way because changing the triple lock is not about taking away people's state pe…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
Declined openlyQ: “We have talked about your ambition on to on on child care and it's very well known. We've talked about it before that you really want to cut back on b…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
Declined openlyQ: “but around 10 million people of working age are on benefits. Many many of them are in work and the reason they get benefits is to make up for their lo…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview, 4 Oct 2026 · video
ConsistencyNot checked
No unacknowledged contradictionsshown, not in the score
Contradiction checks start once more of the record is in. Until then this measure is left out, not counted as perfect.
SubstanceNot enough data
Emotion that comes with substanceshown, not in the score
3 emotional passages labelled, 0 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.
How the number is built
12.5 + 19.8 = 32.3Bluff = 50 × (1 − Accuracy 75%) = 12.5
Spin = 50 × (1 − Answers questions 60%) = 19.8
BS Index = Bluff + Spin = 32.3 → shown as 32
The same fixed weights for everyone. Consistency and Substance are shown alongside, never in the number.
The record
Kemi Badenoch: "I'm a classic old-school Conservative" - YouTube. YouTube: BBC Politics (official channel), 4 Oct 2026. Open the video · hash and fetch details