Dashboard/Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage

Leader, Reform UK

Some bluff & spin

Bluff37%Spin25%

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Against the field

Nigel Farage

Reform UK · UK

2nd highest BS Index of 9

Some bluff & spin

BS Index · 31Lower is better

0 · straight talk50

Accuracy · 63% of checked claims hold upHigher is better

0%100%

Answers · 75% of questions answered straightHigher is better

0%100%

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Five Tells

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Unsupported claims 37% Checked claims that did not hold up (partly supported counts as half) Self-contradictions – Not checked yet Dodged questions 25% Questions not answered straight (partly answered or openly declined counts as half) Emotional appeal 32% Emotional passages used in place of an answer or evidence, or off the subject. Emotion that fits the subject is not counted Vague answers Shown, not scored – Not measured yet

Each spoke shows how often it happened: further out means more often. The BS Index goes up with the first four; a hollow dot is context only and does not change the score.

What makes up the score

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Accuracy63%

Checked claims that hold upadds 18.5 of 50.0

Partly supported“You give money, you get a peer.” Interview, 2 Sep 2026 · openDemocracy

Partly supported“my personal expenses in the first two years of being an MP is zero” Interview, 2 Sep 2026 · Deadline News · MP Expenses (IPSA data)

Partly supported“on May the 7th we wiped out the [Tories] in East Anglia” Interview, 2 Sep 2026 · ITV News Anglia · Andrew Teale

All 65 checked claims, with sources

Answers questions75%

Questions answered straightadds 12.4 of 50.0

AnsweredQ: “Nah, welcome back to Parliament. You've been sworn in again as a MP. Um, what on earth was the point of that bi-election over the summer?” BBC News interview: the £5m gift and Reform's money, 2 Sep 2026 · video

Partly answeredQ: “The thing is though, we knew you were popular in Clton before because you won in 2024. The bi-election proves that you still are. But we're back where…” BBC News interview: the £5m gift and Reform's money, 2 Sep 2026 · video

Partly answeredQ: “You made a significant charge though against the integrity of the privileges committee of those who might look at uh look at this case in the coming i…” BBC News interview: the £5m gift and Reform's money, 2 Sep 2026 · video

All 208 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.

Substance68%

Emotion that comes with substanceshown, not in the score

25 emotional passages labelled, 8 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.