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Interview · 27 Sep 2026
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests
Video: YouTube: BBC Politics (official channel). Retrieved 7 Oct 2026.
Some bluff & spin
206 sentences · 33 checked claims · 31 questions
What makes up this item's score
DefinitionsAccuracy82%
Checked claims that hold upadds 9.1 of 50.0
Partly supported“Parliament just ignoring this issue cuz they consider it too difficult.”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · The Health Foundation
Supported“it's something that I proposed many years ago, a national care service.”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · The Health Foundation · BBC News
Supported“at the moment social care is charged for, provided on a very different basis”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · The Health Foundation · carehome.co.uk
Partly supported“we see people arriving in hospital every day in their thousands on 999 calls into A&E”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · ITV News · Homecare Association
Supported“There is free personal care elsewhere in the UK.”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · Scottish Government · carehome.co.uk
Supported“Baroness Louise Casey is still doing an official review for us.”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · GOV.UK · PoliticsHome (The House)
Supported“staff in the NHS talk of corridor care being an everyday reality in hospitals across England.”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · Royal College of Nursing
Partly supported“caring for other people's parents on poverty pay.”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · Skills for Care
Supported“They are spending tens of thousands of pounds from their savings, sometimes losing their homes.”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · carehome.co.uk · Alzheimer's Society
Supported“there are a huge number of people in hospitals across England every day who are medically fit to be discharged home, but can't be discharged home because the social care isn't there.”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · Royal College of Physicians
Supported“I've already started cross-party talks”
Interview, 27 Sep 2026 · PoliticsHome (The House) · LBC
Answers questions65%
Questions answered straightadds 17.7 of 50.0
Partly answeredQ: “Prime Minister, welcome in your childhood stomping ground of Liverpool. Um in July, as we heard just there, you told us you would go as fast as you ca…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “If people weren't aware, your father, Roy, passed away actually less than 2 weeks ago. I think it's a fortnight tomorrow. So, this is obviously hugely…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “And those are the problems right now as you see it, but what are you to be really clear, are you proposing a universal service, universal free care fo…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “So, free at the point of use and universal?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “One of the reasons though why politicians have looked at this and then backed off is the cost. So, you've set out very clearly here you want there to …”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
DodgedQ: “are we talking about then?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
Declined openlyQ: “So, where will it do it from? Because where will it come from?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “So, let's then be You say you want to be honest, you want to look people in the eye. You can look the country in the eye right now and say you want ca…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
Declined openlyQ: “Prime Minister, you know where you're going with this. You've been thinking about this for years.”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “spread the cost across the population. That then sounds different to what you just mentioned, what you as Health Secretary mentioned all the way back …”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “If it's urgent, do you commit to doing this before 2029, before the next general election?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “just to be clear for people that commitments in the manifesto are not raising VAT, not raising income tax, and not raising national insurance that emp…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview: social care, the public finances and masked anti-migrant protests, 27 Sep 2026 · video
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.
SubstanceNot enough data
Emotion that comes with substanceshown, not in the score
9 emotional passages labelled, 2 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.
How the number is built
9.1 + 17.7 = 26.8Bluff = 50 × (1 − Accuracy 82%) = 9.1
Spin = 50 × (1 − Answers questions 65%) = 17.7
BS Index = Bluff + Spin = 26.8 → shown as 27
The same fixed weights for everyone. Consistency and Substance are shown alongside, never in the number.
The record
Laura Kuenssberg presses Andy Burnham on care plans, welfare and masked anti-migrant protests - YouTube. YouTube: BBC Politics (official channel), 27 Sep 2026. Open the video · hash and fetch details