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Interview · 30 Sep 2026
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit
Video: YouTube: BBC Politics (official channel). Retrieved 7 Oct 2026.
Mostly straight talkProvisional
176 sentences · 29 checked claims · 21 questions
What makes up this item's score
DefinitionsAccuracy86%
Checked claims that hold upadds 6.9 of 50.0
Supported“We broke up the essentials, we sold them off.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · The National Archives
Partly supported“People in this country are paying higher prices for transport, for energy, for housing than they are in other countries.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Full Fact
Supported“as I did with the bus services in Greater Manchester, use that public control to bring public benefit in the form of lower fares and lower bills.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Greater Manchester Combined Authority · Tameside Reporter
Supported“You can be somebody with a basic state pension and a little modest extra income and you can then be means tested and have to pay care costs.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Lambeth Council · Community Care
Supported“I've said that we will make an adjustment to the triple lock.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Institute for Fiscal Studies · Institute for Fiscal Studies
Supported“the current triple lock works on the basis every year, which is highest, that's what the pension goes up by.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Institute for Fiscal Studies
Supported“by 2030, it will be at a record level.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Institute for Fiscal Studies
Partly supported“Every predecessor in the role that I am in has not grasped this nettle.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Community Care · Social Care Today
Supported“it's the case in Scotland or other countries that have gone down this path.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Scottish Government · Scottish Parliament Information Centre
Partly supported“the threadbare social care system we have, which operates in 15-minute windows delivering quite a basic level of care, could not cope when my dad's care needs progressed.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · UNISON
Supported“I acted, and therefore the money is freed up from Thursday.”
Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · STV News · National Energy Action
Answers questions83%
Questions answered straightadds 8.3 of 50.0
AnsweredQ: “You said that people can't wait forever for change in your speech on this stage. So, why in that speech did you set out a whole series of major change…”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “Let's go through some of the changes starting with that big one on social care. Why hit pensioners not the wealthiest in your first big policy announc…”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “I'm asking you how you pay for that because you you've set out that ambition repeatedly. What's new is you've now told us how you want to pay for it. …”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “But let's put it simply, the clever people behind the scenes who brief us after speeches like your speech say, "This will save 15 billion pounds a yea…”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “You You're saying it's a deal, forgive me interrupting, but you're saying effectively it's a deal. You get something new, but we have to take somethin…”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “check what you mean by that, you see, because you've talked about a free national care service, free at the point of use. But can we be clear that is …”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “might end up selling your family house to pay the bills which are what, 50 to 100,000 pounds?”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “very clear. You've been honest about it, as you said you would be, which is people who move into a residential home, they still face the risk of losin…”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “And you're going to have to look at giving people more help, because you proclaim from this stage that you were cutting VAT off electricity bills, as …”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “So, looking at fuel duty, for example, which”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Now, if there's an energy crisis, as you've conceded, there's another crisis at the moment globally, a borrowing crisis. The global markets are demand…”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “doesn't that doesn't make our borrowing any better.”
BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: social care, the triple lock and Brexit, 30 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
6 emotional passages labelled, 0 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.
How the number is built
6.9 + 8.3 = 15.2Bluff = 50 × (1 − Accuracy 86%) = 6.9
Spin = 50 × (1 − Answers questions 83%) = 8.3
BS Index = Bluff + Spin = 15.2 → shown as 15
The same fixed weights for everyone. Consistency and Substance are shown alongside, never in the number.
The record
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