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11 claims checked against independent sources, chosen by a fixed rule (every material claim (one that supports an argument, a policy or an attack) in the transcripts that count towards a score; in other transcripts, up to 10 claims spread evenly across each; plus any claim an emotional passage relies on). 0 more were found but not checked yet; they do not count.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“Ollie Robbins, I think, made it quite clear yesterday that actually that the Prime Minister's office had made the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson and what the civil servants were required to do is to find a way to deliver that appointment even though he'd failed his vetting.”
Claim checkedSir Olly Robbins told Parliament that the Prime Minister's office had decided to appoint Peter Mandelson, and that civil servants were required to find a way to deliver the appointment even though Mandelson had failed his security vetting.
Sir Oliver Robbins told the Foreign Affairs Committee on 21 April 2026 that No. 10 had already announced Mandelson as its nominee, pressed for him to be in post quickly and treated vetting dismissively. He also said his department completed developed vetting and granted it, after UK Security Vetting leaned towards denying it. So pressure from No. 10 is supported, but 'civil servants were required to find a way to deliver the appointment even though he'd failed his vetting' goes beyond his evidence.
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Supported85% confidence
“the various reforms they did from the Human Rights Act to the you know, creation of the Supreme Court to the Equalities Act”
Claim checkedThe Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown passed the Human Rights Act, created the Supreme Court and passed the Equality Act.
The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which created the Supreme Court, were passed by the Blair government; the Equality Act 2010 by the Brown government, in which Mandelson sat. All were Labour reforms.
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Supported90% confidence
“a human rights lawyer like Keir Starmer”
Claim checkedKeir Starmer was a human rights lawyer before entering politics.
Keir Starmer was called to the Bar in 1987, practised from Doughty Street Chambers, mostly in human rights cases, and was named Human Rights Lawyer of the Year in 2001, before becoming Director of Public Prosecutions in 2008.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“the offering which he's giving the Chagos Islands away”
Claim checkedKeir Starmer's government is giving the Chagos Islands away, to Mauritius.
The UK and Mauritius signed a treaty on 22 May 2025 that would transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, with the UK leasing back Diego Garcia. It had not been ratified in April 2026, and the Government still needs legislation to do so, so the islands had not yet been given away.
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Not supported70% confidence
“our polling indicates that we are polling somewhere between 8 and 10%.”
Claim checkedRestore Britain's own polling shows it at between 8 and 10% in voting intention.
No published poll shows Restore Britain at 8 to 10%. YouGov's April 2026 polls, which asked about it as a follow-up to 'some other party', put it at 3 to 4%, and YouGov's unprompted tests showed similar levels. His own internal polling is not published, so it cannot be checked.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“None of the existing polls are naming us yet.”
Claim checkedOpinion polls do not name Restore Britain as an option in their lists of parties.
YouGov's April 2026 polls did not name Restore Britain in their main list of parties: it was only asked of people who chose 'some other party' (YouGov was still deciding whether to promote it to the main prompt). So 'not named' is right for that main list, but 'none of the polls' goes too far: YouGov did publish Restore Britain's figure, 4% on 6-7 April and 3% on 19-20 April. Only YouGov's polls were checked; other pollsters' prompts were not.
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Can't verify50% confidence
“we now have 131,000 signed-up supporters.”
Claim checkedRestore Britain has 131,000 signed-up supporters.
131,000 is the party's own count of signed-up supporters, and reports of 'over 130,000' repeat the party's claim. There is no independent membership register to check it against.
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Partly supported80% confidence
“we had a defection yesterday in South Cornwall of a Reform candidate, a very good man called [Roger Tarrant] who joined us deputy leader of the council down there”
Claim checkedThe day before, Roger Tarrant, a Reform candidate and Reform's deputy leader on Cornwall Council, defected from Reform UK to Restore Britain.
Roger Tarrant, a Cornwall councillor for Redruth North and Reform UK's deputy group leader on Cornwall Council, left Reform for Restore Britain on 21 April 2026, the day before the interview, and withdrew from his application to stand as a Reform parliamentary candidate. He was deputy group leader of Reform on the council, not deputy leader of the council, and the name is Tarrant, not 'Town'.
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Partly supported85% confidence
“As you know, Keir Starmer won his majority on a 35% share of the vote.”
Claim checkedKeir Starmer's Labour won its majority at the 2024 general election on a 35% share of the vote.
Labour won 33.7% of the vote in 2024 and 411 seats. '35%' overstates it by 1.3 points; the point that Labour won a large majority on about a third of the vote holds.
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Can't verify40% confidence
“Bigger than most national newspapers by a long way.”
Claim checkedRestore Britain's social media following is far bigger than most national newspapers'.
No published comparison of Restore Britain's social media reach with national newspapers' audiences was found, and 'most national newspapers' is not defined, so this cannot be checked either way.
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Can't verify50% confidence
“since we launched the party in February, we've now got over 400 branches up and running.”
Claim checkedSince launching in February, Restore Britain has set up over 400 branches.
Lowe said on 12 March 2026 that Restore Britain had branches in over 100 constituencies and in August that it had operational branches in 'the vast majority of constituencies'. No published count of 400 branches in April 2026 was found, and the party's own figures are not independently counted.
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