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Supported85% confidence
“getting the railways working properly with the nationalization program underway there”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham said a programme to nationalise the railways was under way.
Rail operators were being moved into public ownership as contracts ended: Greater Anglia in October 2025, West Midlands Trains on 1 February 2026 and Govia Thameslink on 31 May 2026, with others to follow before Great British Railways takes over.
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Supported90% confidence
“I took a decision within days of coming into Downing Street to take VAT off electricity bills and that comes off on Thursday.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham decided within days of becoming Prime Minister to remove VAT from electricity bills, with the cut taking effect on Thursday 1 October 2026.
Andy Burnham became Prime Minister on 20 July 2026 and announced on 21 July that VAT on domestic electricity would fall from 5% to 0% from 1 October 2026, a Thursday.
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Supported85% confidence
“That's the average, but obviously it depends on how much energy you use.”
Claim checkedThe £45 saving from removing VAT on electricity bills is an average, and the actual saving depends on how much electricity a household uses.
The government put the saving from the electricity VAT cut at about £45 a year for a typical household; as a cut of 5% VAT, the saving rises and falls with each household's electricity use.
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Supported80% confidence
“the conflict in the Middle East, which is causing a lot of pressure when it comes to the cost of energy, the cost of fuel”
Claim checkedThe conflict in the Middle East is pushing up the cost of energy and fuel in the UK.
The US-Israel war with Iran, which began on 28 February 2026, pushed up oil and energy prices; the RAC reported that diesel cost about 57p a litre more in early October than at the start of the war.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“fuel at the pump this week, I know, cuz I'm hearing the feedback, has gone over £2 a liter”
Claim checkedThe price of fuel at the pump went over £2 a litre in the week of 28 September 2026.
On 28 September 2026 the RAC's average diesel price hit a record 199.18p a litre, just under £2, and some forecourts were above £2; the average passed £2 (200.01p) only on 2 October. Petrol averaged about 174p.
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Supported80% confidence
“I did agree last week to provide some support to the Saudi government who are trying to protect their energy infrastructure from damage.”
Claim checkedIn the week before 29 September 2026, Andy Burnham agreed to give the Saudi government military support to help it protect its energy infrastructure from attack.
On 21 September 2026 Andy Burnham agreed a Saudi request for 'defensive' air-to-air refuelling by an RAF Voyager, to help Saudi Arabia shoot down Houthi missiles and drones after an 8 September attack on its energy facilities and military sites.
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“for people who use more, that figure is a lot higher for people who use more.”
Claim checkedThe saving from removing VAT on electricity bills is much higher than £45 for households that use more electricity.
The cut removes 5% VAT from the whole electricity bill, so the saving grows with use: households that use more electricity than the typical household save more than the £45 average.
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“I can do what I can to provide leadership and support, and I have provided that to President Zelensky.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham has given leadership and support to Ukraine's President Zelensky.
Andy Burnham called Volodymyr Zelensky on his first day as Prime Minister, hosted him in the UK in July 2026 with a pledge to be 'with Ukraine 100 percent', and visited Kyiv in August.
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Supported80% confidence
“a previous Prime Minister and government did, which was to make unfunded commitments at a budget, and then that damaged people's mortgages”
Claim checkedA previous Prime Minister's government (Liz Truss's) made unfunded commitments at a budget, which damaged people's mortgages.
After Liz Truss's government's mini-budget of 23 September 2022, with about £45bn of unfunded tax cuts, lenders withdrew about 40% of mortgage products and average two-year fixed rates rose above 6%.
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Supported90% confidence
“we're adjusting the triple lock.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham's government is adjusting the state pension triple lock.
At Labour conference on 29 September 2026 Andy Burnham announced a reform of the triple lock from 2030-31, keeping the CPI and 2.5% floors but measuring the earnings element over time, as described by the IFS.
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“three things are involved in the triple lock: prices, earnings, and 2.5% and every year the pension rises, as you know, according to which one of those is highest.”
Claim checkedUnder the triple lock the state pension rises each year by the highest of prices, earnings or 2.5%.
Since 2011 the state pension has risen each year by the highest of average earnings growth, CPI inflation or 2.5%, per the IFS.
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Supported80% confidence
“No, it's not taken out completely.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham's change to the triple lock does not completely remove the link between the state pension and wages.
Under the announced reform, pensions still rise by at least CPI or 2.5% each year, and the earnings link is kept but measured cumulatively rather than year by year, so it is changed rather than removed.
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Supported80% confidence
“the way the current triple lock works is it's really driving the pension up”
Claim checkedThe current triple lock is pushing the state pension up sharply.
The IFS found the triple lock's 'ratchet' has pushed the full new state pension to about 30% of median full-time earnings, higher relative to earnings than at any point since at least 1968.
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Supported65% confidence
“By 2030 it will be at record levels and at that point, if we adjust it in the way that I'm describing, it will then hold the pension there.”
Claim checkedBy 2030 the state pension will be at a record level, and the triple lock change will then hold it at that level.
The pension was already at a record level relative to earnings, and continued triple-lock rises to 2030 would keep it there; the IFS describes the reform as keeping the pension in a stable ratio to earnings. No official projection naming 2030 was located.
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Supported75% confidence
“the triple lock has had the effect of taking pensioners into tax. So, because of the tax threshold being where it is, some basic pension state pension pensioners will come into tax.”
Claim checkedBecause of the triple lock and the frozen income tax threshold, some pensioners who have only the state pension will be brought into income tax.
The full new state pension is £12,547.60 in 2026-27, £22 below the personal allowance frozen at £12,570, and triple-lock rises will take it above the allowance from April 2027. Full Fact notes the frozen thresholds have drawn more pensioners into income tax.
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Supported80% confidence
“And we're saying as a government, "Well, we shouldn't do that. And [we won't] take that tax off them."”
Claim checkedThe government has said it will not take income tax from pensioners whose state pension rises above the tax threshold.
At the November 2025 Budget the government said people whose only income is the basic or new state pension will not have to pay small amounts of tax through simple assessment from April 2027, for the rest of this Parliament. It does not cover pensioners with other income.
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Supported85% confidence
“There are pensioners out there who watch your program who are paying for care costs from their basic state pension.”
Claim checkedSome pensioners pay for care costs out of their basic state pension.
Under council financial assessments in England the state pension counts as income: people in council-funded care homes pay from it, keeping about £30 a week, and home-care users can be charged on income above the Minimum Income Guarantee.
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“people who have dementia are treated very differently from people who have cancer, where they're left paying all of this money out for the basic care that they need”
Claim checkedPeople with dementia are treated very differently from people with cancer, having to pay for the care they need.
NHS treatment for cancer is free, while most dementia care is social care, which is means-tested; the Alzheimer's Society says people with dementia and their families pay about two thirds of the cost of dementia care, around £100,000 over a lifetime on average.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“15-minute parcels of care.”
Claim checkedHome care in England is delivered in 15-minute visits.
Short home-care visits are documented: a UNISON Freedom of Information survey found 74% of English councils still commissioned 15-minute visits. That figure is from 2016, and not all care is delivered this way.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“people who care for other people's parents are doing so on poverty pay.”
Claim checkedCare workers in England are paid poverty pay.
Skills for Care found the median care worker earned £12.60 an hour in December 2025, 39p above the National Living Wage, with 26% on or within 10p of it and about half below the Real Living Wage. Pay is low, but 'poverty pay' is a description rather than a measured threshold.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“what I'm saying about the triple lock enables a better support, better care for people in their homes, no care charges.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham's triple lock change enables better care at home for older people with no care charges.
The plan does promise care starting in the home, free at the point of use, with no care charges from the basic state pension, in the next Parliament. But the IFS says the triple lock saving (£4bn-£20bn, very uncertain) only avoids unfunded pension rises and would not by itself pay for the care service.
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