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20 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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Supported85% confidence
“The Hillsborough law that we passed in this House last night”
Claim checkedThe House of Commons passed the Hillsborough law (Public Office (Accountability) Bill) on the night of 14 July 2026, as Keir Starmer said on 15 July 2026.
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill, known as the Hillsborough law, passed its Commons third reading unanimously on Tuesday 14 July 2026, the night before this PMQs; it then went to the House of Lords, so it was not yet law.
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Supported80% confidence
“Just this week, we invested a record £250 million to protect our Jewish communities”
Claim checkedIn the week of 13 July 2026 the government committed a record £250 million to protect Jewish communities, as Keir Starmer said on 15 July 2026.
On 13 July 2026 the government announced a £250 million, three-year package to protect Jewish communities, including more than 500 extra police officers; reporting described it as record funding.
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Supported85% confidence
“That is why we passed Ronan’s law”
Claim checkedThe Labour government passed Ronan's law on online knife sales (in the Crime and Policing Act 2026), as Keir Starmer said on 15 July 2026.
Ronan's law, named after 16-year-old Ronan Kanda, was enacted in the Crime and Policing Act 2026, which received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026. It tightens age and identity checks on online knife sales at purchase and delivery and raises the penalty for selling knives to under-18s to up to two years.
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Can't verify55% confidence
“this Government are doing more on child poverty than any Government ever, including previous Labour Governments”
Claim checkedKeir Starmer's Labour government (2024-2026) is doing more to reduce child poverty than any previous UK government, including the Labour governments of 1997-2010, as he said on 15 July 2026.
'Doing more' has no single measure. The government projects that scrapping the two-child limit and other measures in its child poverty strategy will lift about 550,000 children out of poverty by 2030, which it calls the largest reduction in a single Parliament; this is a forecast, and under the previous Labour government the number of children in relative poverty fell from about 3.4 million to 2.6 million between 1999 and 2010.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“That is why we banned social media for under-16s.”
Claim checkedThe Labour government banned social media for children under 16 (as of 15 July 2026), as Keir Starmer said.
The government announced on 15 June 2026 that under-16s would be banned from social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, using powers in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, but the ban was not expected to take effect until spring 2027. In July 2026 it had been decided and legislated for, not yet put into force.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“It was the worst result since 1935, and we were found to be institutionally antisemitic.”
Claim checkedLabour's 2019 general election result was its worst since 1935, and the party was afterwards found (by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2020) to be institutionally antisemitic, as Keir Starmer said on 15 July 2026.
Labour won 202 seats in the December 2019 general election, its fewest since 1935. But the Equality and Human Rights Commission's October 2020 report found unlawful harassment and indirect discrimination and failures of leadership; it did not find the party 'institutionally antisemitic', a term that does not appear in the report.
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Supported90% confidence
“That is why we set the mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.”
Claim checkedThe Labour Government set a mission to halve violence against women and girls in the UK within a decade.
Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged to halve violence against women and girls within a decade, and the government adopted it as part of its Safer Streets mission. It published its VAWG strategy, 'Freedom from Violence and Abuse', in December 2025, as the House of Commons Library records.
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Supported75% confidence
“I have set a target of two thirds of young people either to go to university or to a gold standard apprenticeship”
Claim checkedKeir Starmer, as Prime Minister, set a target for two thirds of young people to go to university or into a gold-standard apprenticeship, as he said on 15 July 2026.
In September 2025 Keir Starmer replaced the old 50% university target with a goal of two thirds of young people going to university or taking a gold-standard apprenticeship.
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Contradicted by evidence80% confidence
“when his party was in the coalition Government, they did not do anything about social care”
Claim checkedWhen the Liberal Democrats were in the 2010-2015 coalition Government, that Government took no action on social care.
The 2010-15 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition set up the Dilnot Commission on care funding (report July 2011) and passed the Care Act 2014, which wrote a cap on lifetime care costs into law; the Lib Dem minister Norman Lamb took the bill through Parliament. The cap was later deferred in July 2015 by the following Conservative-only government and never brought in, but the record does not show that the coalition did nothing on social care.
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Supported85% confidence
“net migration is down 82%”
Claim checkedUK net migration has fallen by 82% from its 2023 peak (to the latest figure available on 15 July 2026), as Keir Starmer said.
Revised ONS estimates put net migration at a peak of 944,000 in the year ending March 2023, and provisional figures published on 21 May 2026 put it at 171,000 in the year ending December 2025, a fall of about 82%.
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Supported75% confidence
“small boat crossings are down 40%”
Claim checkedSmall boat crossings to the UK in 2026 up to mid-July were about 40% lower than in the same period of 2025.
Small boat arrivals in 2026 were running about 40% below 2025. The National Crime Agency put the fall in the first half of 2026 at 41%. The Migration Observatory reports 16,300 arrivals from 1 January to 9 September 2026, 47% fewer than in the same period of 2025. Over a rolling 12 months the fall was smaller at the time (Home Office: 23% in the year to June 2026), so the figure holds for year-to-date comparisons.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“we deported 70,000 people with no right to be here”
Claim checkedThe Government has deported 70,000 people with no right to be in the UK.
Home Office figures count about 60,000 removals and returns by February 2026 and 80,000 by September 2026, but most were voluntary departures. Enforced removals were around 15,000, so 'deported 70,000' overstates the enforced figure.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“half a million children are being lifted out of poverty”
Claim checkedHalf a million children are being lifted out of poverty by the Labour government's policies (as of 15 July 2026), as Keir Starmer said.
The government's child poverty strategy, including scrapping the two-child limit, is projected to lift about 550,000 children out of poverty by 2030 (450,000 from the two-child limit alone). That figure is a projection for the end of the Parliament, not a change that had already happened by July 2026.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“we have got the biggest investment in defence and security since the 1980s”
Claim checkedThe Government's investment in defence and security is the biggest since the 1980s.
Planned spending of 2.7% of GDP would be the highest share since the 1990s, and real-terms spending is close to Cold War levels. 'Since the 1980s' is a stretch; the Government's own wording elsewhere is 'since the end of the Cold War'.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“we have put record investment into our local authorities and our NHS across the country, including in Shropshire”
Claim checkedThe Labour Government has put record levels of funding into local councils and the NHS across England, including in Shropshire.
Nationally, council core funding for 2026-27 rises by £3.9bn (5.8% cash, 3.5% real), and the IFS says it will be 8.8% higher in real terms by 2028-29, if councils raise council tax by the maximum. But the reforms move money away from many councils: 43% face a real-terms fall. Shropshire Council said the final settlement left it £4.3m worse off in 2026-27 than it had planned, removed the remoteness funding factor and left it seeking up to £121m in exceptional borrowing. So 'record investment ... including in Shropshire' overstates the position for Shropshire.
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Supported75% confidence
“In six years, we went from historic defeat in 2019 to historic victory in 2024”
Claim checkedLabour went from a historically bad general election defeat in 2019 to a historically large victory in 2024.
Labour won 202 seats at the December 2019 general election, its fewest since 1935. At the July 2024 election it won 411 seats and a majority of 172 (Commons Library). The 'six years' refers to the span from 2020 to the 2026 statement; the two elections themselves were about four and a half years apart.
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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.
Supported“during my time in this Parliament—11 years—three serving or former MPs have been murdered”Procedural: Part of a tribute to murdered MPs, not an argument. · Prime Minister's Questions, 15 Jul 2026
Supported“That meeting with President Zelensky happened the day after he was evicted from the Oval Office.”Procedural: His own diary: when a meeting took place. · Prime Minister's Questions, 15 Jul 2026
Supported“I took the call from President Trump at JLR in Solihull”Procedural: His own diary: where he took a phone call. · Prime Minister's Questions, 15 Jul 2026
Can't verify“As Prime Minister, I have participated in over 60 sessions of PMQs”Procedural: A count of his own PMQs sessions. · Prime Minister's Questions, 15 Jul 2026
Supported“including when there was an attempt to burn down our family home”Procedural: His own family's experience, given as background. · Prime Minister's Questions, 15 Jul 2026
Pending“the England team have won 22 out of 29 matches since I have been Prime Minister”Procedural: A joke about the England team. · Prime Minister's Questions, 15 Jul 2026
Supported“Of course, it is only under Labour Governments that we win the world cup”Procedural: A joke about the World Cup. · Prime Minister's Questions, 15 Jul 2026