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Partly supported65% confidence
“youth unemployment has skyrocketed.”
Claim checkedUnemployment among young people (aged 16 to 24) in the UK has risen very sharply.
House of Commons Library figures from the ONS show 751,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed in May to July 2026, a rate of 16.4%, up from 14.3% a year earlier and from about 13.4% in April to June 2024. Big Issue reported the rate was at its highest in about a decade. That is a sharp rise, but 'skyrocketed' overstates a three-point rise over two years; the rate was above 20% in 2011.
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Supported85% confidence
“It's the first time we're above the EU unemployment average for young people.”
Claim checkedFor the first time, the UK's youth unemployment rate is above the EU average.
Full Fact found that OECD data for July to September 2025 put UK unemployment among 15- to 24-year-olds at 15.3%, above the EU average of 15.2%. It said this was the first time since comparable records began in 2005 that the UK rate was higher; the two were equal in Q4 2024.
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Supported70% confidence
“we actually found the money last year. We had a program called the first jobs bonus.”
Claim checkedLast year (2025) the Conservatives found money for a policy called the 'first jobs bonus'.
At the October 2025 conference the Conservatives announced a 'first job bonus', diverting the first £5,000 of a worker's national insurance into savings for a home deposit, at an estimated £2.8bn a year, to be paid for from proposed welfare savings. The 'money found' was a set of proposed savings in opposition, not money already raised.
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Supported80% confidence
“we have a golden economic rule. We find savings and then we spend it.”
Claim checkedThe Conservatives have a 'golden economic rule' under which they find savings before committing to spend.
At the October 2025 conference Kemi Badenoch announced a 'golden economic rule': half of any savings would go to cutting the deficit and the rest could fund tax cuts or other spending. She set out £47bn of proposed cuts alongside it. The rule is stated policy; whether the savings can be achieved is not tested here.
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Supported60% confidence
“We've seen an increase since Labour came into office of 174,000.”
Claim checkedUnemployment among 16- to 24-year-olds has risen by 174,000 since Labour took office in July 2024.
The Commons Library, from ONS figures, puts youth (16-24) unemployment at 751,000 in May to July 2026, against an average of 540,000 across 2024 and figures as first published of roughly 560,000 to 600,000 in mid-2024, when Labour took office. A rise of 174,000 falls within that range; the exact figure depends on the starting month.
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Supported90% confidence
“It's now 750,000 young people who are unemployed.”
Claim checkedAbout 750,000 people aged 16 to 24 in the UK are now unemployed.
The latest ONS figures before the interview, for May to July 2026, show 751,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed (16.4%), as reported by the House of Commons Library.
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Supported60% confidence
“There's a graduate recruitment crisis”
Claim checkedThere is a crisis in graduate recruitment in the UK.
The Institute of Student Employers found graduate hiring fell 8% in 2024-25, the first fall since 2020, while employers received about 140 applications per graduate vacancy, the highest in two decades. Calling this a 'crisis' is a judgement, but the data show a sharply tighter graduate market.
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Supported85% confidence
“if young people don't get a job early that impacts their lifetime earnings.”
Claim checkedYoung people who do not find work early earn less over their lifetimes.
Research by Gregg and Tominey using the National Child Development Study found that youth unemployment left a wage penalty of 12% to 15% at age 42, or 8% to 10% if repeat unemployment was avoided. This is a well-established 'scarring' effect.
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Supported90% confidence
“We had a prime minister who came in on a landslide and he was out in two years.”
Claim checkedKeir Starmer became Prime Minister after a landslide election win in 2024 and was out of office about two years later.
Keir Starmer won a landslide in July 2024, announced his resignation on 22 June 2026 after losing the support of Labour MPs, and was succeeded by Andy Burnham on 20 July 2026, about two years after taking office.
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Supported75% confidence
“The current polling shows a hung parliament, no party getting an overall majority.”
Claim checkedCurrent opinion polling points to a hung parliament, with no party winning an overall majority.
YouGov's September 2026 MRP projected a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party and no party with a majority, as reported by Bloomberg on 24 September 2026. That is one model, but it matches the statement.
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Supported80% confidence
“I have said that we would have another election if there was no overall majority.”
Claim checkedKemi Badenoch has said there would be another general election if no party won an overall majority, rather than a deal with Reform.
Kemi Badenoch has ruled out a deal with Reform UK and said that in a hung parliament where parties cannot form a government 'you have another election', rather than a 'monstrous Reform/Conservative hybrid'.
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Supported85% confidence
“Their leader in Wales had to step down after being arrested.”
Claim checkedReform UK's leader in Wales had to step down after being arrested.
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.
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Supported75% confidence
“The one before him 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 linked to Russia.
Nathan Gill, a former leader of Reform UK in Wales, was jailed for ten and a half years on 21 November 2025 after pleading guilty to bribery for making pro-Russian statements as an MEP. The payments came through Oleg Voloshyn, a pro-Russia Ukrainian politician, so 'bribes from Russia' is a simplification. Lists of the party's Welsh leaders show Gill as Dan Thomas's predecessor.
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Supported85% confidence
“That is our policy. I have said that we would keep it.”
Claim checkedIt is Conservative policy to keep the state pension triple lock, and Kemi Badenoch has said so.
On 4 October 2026 she told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that 'our policy is to keep it', and she has said elsewhere that 'our policy is to keep the triple lock'. She has also said the party would look at means-testing in future, though 'that moment is not now'.
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Supported70% confidence
“I said it this morning on BBC. I said it to Laura [Kuenssberg] on Sunday.”
Claim checkedKemi Badenoch said the Conservatives would keep the triple lock earlier that morning on the BBC and to Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday 4 October 2026.
In the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview on 4 October 2026 she said the triple lock 'is our policy' and that nothing had changed her mind. No record of a BBC interview earlier on 6 October was found, so that part is not checked.
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Not supported60% confidence
“the NHS has become a bureaucracy with a little bit of health care on the side.”
Claim checkedThe NHS has become mostly bureaucracy, with only a small amount of health care.
King's Fund analysis of NHS workforce data found about 40,000 managers among 1.33 million staff in 2025, about one in 33, a near-record low ratio, and no persuasive evidence that the NHS is over-managed. Admin and support staff are a larger group, but most NHS staff work in clinical care, so the description is not borne out.
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Contradicted by evidence80% confidence
“We are getting poorer.”
Claim checkedPeople in the UK are getting poorer.
ONS figures published on 30 September 2026 show real GDP per head rose 0.5% in Q2 2026 and was 1.2% higher than a year earlier, and real household disposable income per head rose 1.0% in Q2 after falling 0.8% in Q1. On these measures the country was not getting poorer.
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Supported70% confidence
“We've had reorganization after reorganization, the staff aren't happy, the patients aren't happy.”
Claim checkedThe NHS has been through repeated reorganisations, and both staff and patients are unhappy with it.
The NHS in England has been restructured by the 2012 and 2022 Health and Care Acts, and in March 2025 the government announced the abolition of NHS England. The British Social Attitudes survey found satisfaction with the NHS at a record-low 21% in 2024 and 26% in 2025, with 51% dissatisfied. Staff satisfaction was not separately checked.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“we've offered to work with [Labour cross-party].”
Claim checkedThe Conservatives have offered to work with the Labour government on a cross-party basis on the NHS and care.
In July 2026 Andy Burnham invited party leaders to cross-party talks on social care. The shadow health secretary, Stuart Andrew, attended and said the party was 'ready to work with Labour' on social care, provided the plans did not rely on more tax or borrowing. That was a conditional response to Labour's invitation, on social care rather than the NHS as a whole.
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Supported70% confidence
“We spent more money than ever on the NHS.”
Claim checkedConservative governments spent more money on the NHS than ever before.
Health spending in England rose in real terms in most years of Conservative-led government, reaching record levels; the King's Fund puts Department of Health and Social Care spending at £204.7bn in 2024/25. Growth was slower than the long-run average: 1.1% a year in 2010-15 and 3.1% a year in 2015/16 to 2023/24, against 3.9% since 1955/56.
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Supported65% confidence
“the 2017 to 2019 parliament. We put in record amounts of funding.”
Claim checkedIn the 2017 to 2019 Parliament the Conservative government gave the NHS record amounts of funding.
In June 2018 Theresa May's government set out a five-year plan raising NHS funding by £20.5bn a year in real terms by 2023/24, about 3.4% a year, which took funding to record levels. The growth rate was below the long-run average of about 3.9% a year, so the amounts were a record but the rise was not.
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Supported70% confidence
“You would have heard me you know when I became leader saying that governments should not be getting involved in football and tinkering with it.”
Claim checkedSoon after becoming Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch said government should not get involved in regulating football.
In early 2025, a few months after becoming leader, Kemi Badenoch called the planned independent football regulator 'a waste of money' and said she opposed it, reversing the party's support for a bill it had first introduced in government. Fans' groups said she had earlier backed the regulator in a letter to a constituent.
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Pending“the last message was great speech, great outfit. then he would sign it Jeffrey NRN, no reply needed or by this make sure you read the Telegraph today, pageuh 70. So, he was reading the newspapers and messaging me.”Procedural: Personal recollection of messages from Jeffrey Archer, given in a tribute after his death. · BBC News interview with Chris Mason: youth jobs, Reform, the triple lock and the NHS, 6 Oct 2026