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Supported90% confidence
“We brought it in when we were in office in 2010.”
Claim checkedThe Conservative-led coalition government brought in the state pension triple lock in 2010.
The triple lock (state pension rises by the highest of earnings growth, inflation or 2.5%) was introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in 2010 and first applied to the April 2011 uprating. It was a coalition policy, not a Conservative-only one, but the Conservatives led that government.
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Supported70% confidence
“The amount of money he's saving when it eventually comes in is 15 billion a year, the 15.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham's planned change to the state pension triple lock will save £15 billion a year once it takes effect.
Reports after the 29 September 2026 speech give a government estimate of about £15bn a year in savings by the end of the 2030s, and a Resolution Foundation estimate of about £5bn a year by 2035 and £15bn a year by 2040. The IFS said on 30 September 2026 that the saving is very uncertain: around £4bn in 2034-35, possibly nothing, and anywhere between £4bn and £20bn later. So £15bn a year is a published estimate for around 2040, not for when the change starts in 2030.
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Can't verify55% confidence
“the amount of extra money we would have had to pay on welfare while Labour was in office is 50 billion.”
Claim checkedUK welfare spending has risen by £50 billion while the Labour Government has been in office since 2024.
Reported figures show welfare spending rising from about £314bn when Labour took office in 2024 to about £353bn in 2025-26 (around £39bn more). The OBR forecasts about £407bn by 2030-31, a rise of more than £90bn. No source found gives a £50bn figure for extra welfare spending under Labour. The figure falls between these two numbers, but what it refers to could not be identified.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“Andy Haldane, said this is a typical tax and spend socialist government.”
Claim checkedAndy Haldane, a former adviser to Andy Burnham, said the Labour Government is a typical tax-and-spend socialist government that just has TikTok.
In mid-September 2026, former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane, who had advised Andy Burnham, said markets suspected this was a "traditional tax and spend socialist government with better TikTok videos". He presented this as the markets' view, not directly as his own. Burnham rejected the description.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“France is in the EU, Italy is in the EU, and they're still getting way more boats than we are.”
Claim checkedFrance and Italy, both EU members, receive far more migrant boats than the UK does.
UNHCR recorded 66,316 sea arrivals to Italy in 2025, against 41,472 small boat arrivals to the UK that year, so Italy did receive more. In 2026, UK arrivals fell to about 18,600 by late September. No source found shows France receiving more irregular sea arrivals than the UK; France is mainly the departure point for Channel crossings.
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Supported55% confidence
“we we're still scrapping stamp duty.”
Claim checkedAs of 1 October 2026, the Conservative Party is still committed to scrapping stamp duty on main homes.
Kemi Badenoch announced at the October 2025 Conservative conference that the party would abolish stamp duty on main homes, at an estimated cost of £9 billion a year by 2029/30. We found no report that the pledge had been dropped before this interview on 1 October 2026. This check rests on the 2025 pledge.
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Supported70% confidence
“They don't have a defense spokesman.”
Claim checkedReform UK does not have a defence spokesperson.
Reform UK's spokesperson team, announced on 17 February 2026, had no defence or foreign affairs spokesperson, and an opinion piece noted the party had no official defence spokesman. No later defence appointment up to late September 2026 was found.
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Supported90% confidence
“the leader in Wales this month was arrested, had to step down.”
Claim checkedThe leader of Reform UK in Wales was arrested in September 2026 and had to step down.
Reform UK Wales leader Dan Thomas MS was arrested on 13 September 2026 on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour, was bailed, and stood down as leader on 15 September 2026. He denied wrongdoing and said he resigned so the matter would not become a distraction.
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Supported80% confidence
“The last leader in Wales is in prison for taking bribes from Russia.”
Claim checkedThe previous leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, is in prison for taking bribes from Russia.
Nathan Gill, a former leader of Reform UK in Wales, was jailed for ten and a half years at the Old Bailey on 21 November 2025 after pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery for making pro-Russian statements as an MEP in 2018-19. The payments came through Oleg Voloshyn, a pro-Russia Ukrainian politician, so "bribes from Russia" is a simplification. Whether Gill was the immediate predecessor of the current leader was not checked.
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Supported85% confidence
“it showed that both Robert [Jenrick] and [Suella] Braverman would lose their seats”
Claim checkedThe September 2026 YouGov MRP poll showed Reform UK MPs Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman losing their seats to the Conservatives.
YouGov's September 2026 MRP, reported around 24 September 2026, projected that Robert Jenrick (Newark) and Suella Braverman (Fareham and Waterlooville) would lose their seats to the Conservatives. A separate More in Common MRP from September 2026 reportedly projected Braverman holding her seat.
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Not supported60% confidence
“[Reform] have announced that they won't be able to do anything for five years which I was quite astonished by.”
Claim checkedReform UK has announced that, under its plan for borders and deportations, it would not be able to do anything for five years.
Reform UK's deportation plan, announced in August 2025, is a five-year emergency programme to detain and deport people. It includes 24,000 detention places within 18 months and daily deportation flights. That means action over five years, not five years without action. No Reform statement found says it could do nothing for five years.