GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg

Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth, Leader of Restore Britain

Video: YouTube: GB News (official channel). Retrieved 6 Oct 2026.

No BS Index for this transcript

Only 8 rated questions; a transcript needs 15 for a number. Claims that held up: 56% of 8 checked (Bluff 21.9 of 50). Its claims still count towards the overall score.

What we found

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Accuracy56%

Checked claims that hold up

Partly supported“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.” Interview, 23 Apr 2026 · Foreign Affairs Committee (oral evidence, 21 April 2026) · ITV News

Supported“the various reforms they did from the Human Rights Act to the you know, creation of the Supreme Court to the Equalities Act” Interview, 23 Apr 2026 · legislation.gov.uk (Human Rights Act 1998) · legislation.gov.uk (Constitutional Reform Act 2005)

Supported“a human rights lawyer like Keir Starmer” Interview, 23 Apr 2026 · New Law Journal · Counsel Magazine

Partly supported“the offering which he's giving the Chagos Islands away” Interview, 23 Apr 2026 · RUSI · International Legal Materials (treaty text)

Not supported“our polling indicates that we are polling somewhere between 8 and 10%.” Interview, 23 Apr 2026 · YouGov · YouGov

Partly supported“None of the existing polls are naming us yet.” Interview, 23 Apr 2026 · YouGov · YouGov

Partly supported“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” Interview, 23 Apr 2026 · Hits Radio Cornwall · CornishStuff

Partly supported“As you know, Keir Starmer won his majority on a 35% share of the vote.” Interview, 23 Apr 2026 · House of Commons Library (General election 2024: results and analysis) · UK Parliament election results

All 8 checked claims, with sources

Answers questionsNot enough data

Questions answered straight · observed 88% on 8 (needs 15)

AnsweredQ: “Tell me, what is Restore's view of the current political situation? The Prime Minister fighting for his political life, the Mandelson scandal, and a c…” GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, 23 Apr 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “Three or four people looked at honestly This was a poll of 2,200 people. And your name recognition has actually gone down in the last year. There's ob…” GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, 23 Apr 2026 · video

Partly answeredQ: “Okay, but Nigel has taken 30 years on the public stage to get to the point where his party is sometimes at 30% in the polls. How credible at 30% in th…” GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, 23 Apr 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “But diluting yourself really matters because if you make it more likely in 2029 that we get a coalition of possibly Angela Rayner, Zack Polanski, and …” GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, 23 Apr 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “in if you bring in if you bring in new voters, that still doesn't get you to winning majority. It still leads to the same problem of the right split.” GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, 23 Apr 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “But it doesn't work like that in a first-past-the-post system. There isn't a common sense vote. There's a vote for Reform, there's a vote for Restore,…” GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, 23 Apr 2026 · video

Partly answeredQ: “That's right. But if you take the turnout of the last election was just under 70%. It had fallen off the actually 2019 was 70%. There's a lot of peopl…” GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, 23 Apr 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “But Tory Um What I'm trying to get on to is that actually, if you reunite the right it is not a one-nation right. The one-nation rump in the Tory part…” GB News interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, 23 Apr 2026 · video

All 8 questions

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

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

The record

Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe speaks out on Starmer, Mandelson and the future of British politics - YouTube. YouTube: GB News (official channel), 23 Apr 2026. Open the video · hash and fetch details