No questions were put, so answering cannot be measured. Claims that held up: 78% of 16 checked (Bluff 10.9 of 50). Its claims still count towards the overall score.
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Supported80% confidence
“we led the way in proposing to scrap the unaffordable triple lock and replace it with an annual pension increase linked to the consumer price index.”
Claim checkedRestore Britain's economic paper 'The Wealth of Our Nation' proposed replacing the state pension triple lock with annual increases linked to CPI, before other UK parties proposed scrapping the triple lock.
GB News reported on 5 August 2026 that Restore Britain's economic paper pledged to end the state pension triple lock and uprate the pension by CPI instead, with savings it put at £2bn-£3.5bn a year. That came before Prime Minister Andy Burnham's late-September 2026 plan to change the triple lock from 2030 (to inflation or 2.5%), while the Conservatives and Reform UK restated support for keeping it. Calling the triple lock 'unaffordable' is an opinion and was not rated.
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Supported85% confidence
“The state has become bigger.”
Claim checkedUK public spending as a share of GDP has risen in recent years (2025/26 compared with before the pandemic).
Using OBR data, the House of Lords Library puts total public spending in 2025/26 at £1,360bn, or 44.3% of GDP. That is about 5 percentage points above the 2019/20 pre-pandemic level, and the OBR expects it to stay around that level to 2030/31.
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Supported90% confidence
“Taxes have become higher.”
Claim checkedThe UK tax burden has risen in recent years, reaching its highest share of GDP in decades by 2025/26.
The House of Lords Library, citing the OBR, says the tax take in 2025/26 was at its highest share of GDP since the early 1950s, up from 32.9% of GDP in 2019/20. The OBR forecasts a record 38.5% of GDP by 2030/31, driven by frozen thresholds and the 2024 rise in employer National Insurance.
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Supported85% confidence
“Debt has become larger.”
Claim checkedUK public sector debt has grown over recent years, to almost £3 trillion by 2026.
The ONS says public sector net debt stayed just below £3 trillion at the end of August 2026 (about 94% of GDP), and the Lords Library says debt has nearly tripled as a share of GDP since before the 2008 financial crisis. One qualifier: as a share of GDP, debt was 1.3 points lower than a year earlier.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“Inflation has soared.”
Claim checkedUK consumer price inflation has risen sharply in recent years, up to October 2026.
CPI inflation did rise steeply, to 11.1% in October 2022, a 41-year high. It then fell back to 1.7% in September 2024 and was 3.1% in August 2026, close to the speech. The rise is real, but 'has soared' does not describe the rate at the time of the speech, which was modest by comparison.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“the experience of ordinary Brits using public services has become so much worse.”
Claim checkedPublic services in the UK, such as the NHS, have become much worse for users in recent years.
The British Social Attitudes survey found satisfaction with how the NHS runs fell from 60% in 2019 to about 20% in 2024, and only 22% were satisfied with A&E in 2025, so the NHS measure points to a large decline. But satisfaction rose to 26% in 2025, the first rise since 2019. 'Public services' as a whole is broader than any single measure.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“from roughly 45% of GDP towards the approximately 33% level inherited from the wretched Tony Blair in 1997.”
Claim checkedUK public spending is now roughly 45% of GDP, and it was about 33% of GDP when Tony Blair's government took office in 1997.
The current figure is about right: public spending was 44.3% of GDP in 2025/26 (OBR, via the Lords Library). The 1997 figure is not: the IFS found Labour inherited spending of 40.6% of national income in 1996-97, which fell to a low of 37.4% in 1999-2000. Since the Second World War it has never been below 35.9%, so about 33% does not match the 1997 level (later revisions to GDP shift these figures only slightly).
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Partly supported60% confidence
“They pay enormous rent, record taxes, outrageous house prices, and ludicrous child care costs.”
Claim checkedYoung people in Britain face very high rents, record taxes, very high house prices and very high childcare costs.
Average UK private rent reached £1,400 a month in August 2026, up 3.8% on a year earlier (ONS), and the average home in England cost 7.6 times median full-time earnings in 2025, though affordability has improved since its 2021 peak. The tax take in 2025/26 was the highest since the early 1950s, but not yet a record (a record is forecast for later this decade). 'Enormous', 'outrageous' and 'ludicrous' are opinions, and childcare costs were not measured here.
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Can't verify60% confidence
“Restore Britain has published the most comprehensive removal plan ever produced in Britain.”
Claim checkedRestore Britain's published mass-deportation paper is the most comprehensive plan for removing people that has ever been produced in Britain.
Restore Britain did publish a 105-page paper, 'Mass Deportations: Legitimacy, Legality, and Logistics' (reported by the New Statesman in October 2025). Whether it is 'the most comprehensive removal plan ever produced in Britain' is a comparative judgement with no objective measure, so it cannot be settled from official or independent sources.
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Supported70% confidence
“The main immigration crisis lands in our country not at Dover, but at Gatwick, Heathrow, and Stansted.”
Claim checkedMost immigration to the UK arrives through legal routes such as airports, not by small boat across the Channel to Dover.
ONS provisionally estimates 813,000 long-term immigrants to the UK in the year ending December 2025. Home Office figures show 46,497 detected arrivals via illegal routes in the same year, of which small boats were 89% (about 41,000), so small boat arrivals were around 5% of total immigration. Most immigration comes through legal routes. Official statistics do not break immigration down by airport, so the naming of Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted is a figure of speech and was not measured.
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Partly supported85% confidence
“Our counselors in Norfolk, just 2 weeks ago, passed a motion to scrap all foreign language translation services in Norfolk.”
Claim checkedAbout two weeks before 3 October 2026, Restore Britain-affiliated councillors on Norfolk County Council passed a motion to scrap all foreign language translation services in Norfolk.
At a meeting on Tuesday 22 September 2026, about 11 days before the speech, Norfolk County Council passed a motion from the Great Yarmouth First group (affiliated with Restore Britain) by 45 votes to 31. However, the motion did not scrap all translation services. It made English the ordinary language of council communications 'except where the law requires otherwise', ordered a review of translation and interpretation spending, and kept British Sign Language services.
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Partly supported80% confidence
“we have constructed an energy system that imposes unnecessarily high costs on household and industry. The highest in the world.”
Claim checkedThe UK's energy system gives households and industry the highest energy costs in the world.
Government (DESNZ) international comparisons cited by Full Fact show that in 2024 the UK had the highest industrial electricity prices of all IEA members with data, both including and excluding taxes. For households, UK electricity was the highest excluding taxes but second highest, behind Germany, including taxes. The comparison covers only IEA and EU members, not the whole world, so 'the highest in the world' for both households and industry goes beyond the evidence.
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Supported85% confidence
“we are buying our hydrocarbons from Norway”
Claim checkedThe UK buys a large share of its hydrocarbons, particularly natural gas, from Norway.
Official UK energy statistics show Norway is the UK's largest source of imported gas. Government Energy Trends figures put Norway at 69% of UK gas imports in 2025 (76% in 2024), equal to about 40% of gross gas supply. Domestic UK Continental Shelf production still supplies a large share of the rest.
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Supported70% confidence
“Aneurin Bevan who presciently stated the following. This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish.”
Claim checkedAneurin Bevan said 'This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.'
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations attributes 'This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time' to Aneurin Bevan, in a speech at Blackpool on 24 May 1945 reported in the Daily Herald on 25 May 1945. MPs from several parties have quoted it in Hansard as Bevan's words, for example on 1 September 2020. Some versions say 'almost made of coal'. Calling it 'prescient' is a matter of opinion.
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Supported80% confidence
“endless foreign wars in the Middle East that drive up fuel costs”
Claim checkedWars in the Middle East drive up fuel costs for British motorists at the pump.
After the US-Israel war with Iran began on 28 February 2026 and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted, Brent crude peaked at about $118 in March. UK petrol rose from about 132.8p to 160p a litre by July 2026, the highest in more than three and a half years. Whether the UK should stay out of such wars is a policy view and was not checked.
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Partly supported80% confidence
“Two weeks ago, a father of two was given a two-year jail sentence for throwing a plastic bottle at the police and swearing at officers during an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth.”
Claim checkedAbout two weeks before 3 October 2026, a father of two received a two-year jail sentence for throwing a plastic bottle at police and swearing at officers during an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth.
On 24 September 2026, 9 days before the speech, Del Somerville, a 42-year-old father of two, was jailed for two years at Portsmouth Crown Court after throwing a plastic bottle at a police line and swearing at officers during the anti-migrant disorder of 6 September. However, he pleaded guilty to violent disorder, and the court also heard that he was seen 'aggressively pushing' through the police line in a disturbance where bricks, stones and bottles were thrown. The sentence was therefore for more than the bottle and the swearing alone.
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Supported75% confidence
“as we have witnessed disgracefully in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election for the departing Keir Starmer's seat.”
Claim checkedRestore Britain campaigners were attacked and harassed by opponents during the Holborn and St Pancras by-election campaign for the seat Keir Starmer vacated.
Keir Starmer left the Commons on 1 September 2026, which triggered the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, set for 8 October 2026. The Metropolitan Police said that on 19 September a woman was seen to punch one of about 12 Restore Britain campaigners while around 30 Stand Up To Racism protesters were present, and she was arrested. Further confrontations were reported on 26 September, with each side accusing the other of starting the violence. Calling the events 'disgraceful' is a matter of opinion.
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Procedural claims (the speaker's own dates, petition counts, who said what, background), clear slips of the tongue, and words read out from someone else. They stay on the record and do not count in Accuracy.
Pending“We've published detailed papers on mass deportations, on the British pub, on self-defense, on inheritance tax, on energy, policing, national belonging, financial regulation, borders, and student loans”Procedural: Lists his own party's publications. · Speech to the Restore Britain conference, 3 Oct 2026
Pending“As Benjamin Franklin said as the USA was founded, we must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”Procedural: A quotation used to close the speech. · Speech to the Restore Britain conference, 3 Oct 2026