European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal) debate

Nigel Farage, MP for Clacton, Leader of Reform UK

Official record: UK Parliament, Hansard (House of Commons). Retrieved 2 Oct 2026.

No BS Index for this transcript

No questions were put, so answering cannot be measured. Claims that held up: 44% of 8 checked (Bluff 28.1 of 50). Its claims still count towards the overall score.

What we found

Definitions

Accuracy44%

Checked claims that hold up

Partly supported“On 23 June 2016, in the biggest democratic exercise in the history of these islands” Debate, 29 Oct 2025 · Full Fact

Not supported“The British people voted clearly, by a massive margin” Debate, 29 Oct 2025 · Statista · Full Fact

Supported“its writing into British law in 1998” Debate, 29 Oct 2025 · House of Lords Library · UK in a Changing Europe

Contradicted by evidence“judges in Strasbourg—who by the way are jurists, most of them not even legally qualified” Debate, 29 Oct 2025 · UK in a Changing Europe · House of Commons Library

Contradicted by evidence“we could be overruled by a convention that we signed up to in 1998” Debate, 29 Oct 2025 · House of Lords Library · Equality and Human Rights Commission

Partly supported“In the case of the 2022 Rwanda deportation flight, at 10 pm a single judge in Strasbourg, without any legal qualification, decided on the basis of article 3 that the flight could not take off.” Debate, 29 Oct 2025 · UK in a Changing Europe · Wikipedia

Partly supported“A Pakistani child sex offender dodged deportation on the basis that his removal would harm the children he had had in this country.” Debate, 29 Oct 2025 · The Telegraph (via Yahoo News) · DESIblitz

Supported“this completely outdated, 75-year-old convention” Debate, 29 Oct 2025 · House of Lords Library

All 8 checked claims, with sources

Answers questionsNot enough data

Questions answered straight

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

2 emotional passages labelled, 0 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.

The record

European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal). UK Parliament, Hansard (House of Commons), 29 Oct 2025. Open the official record · hash and fetch details