No questions were put, so answering cannot be measured. Claims that held up: 44% of 8 checked (Bluff 28.1 of 50). Its claims still count towards the overall score.
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Supported2Partly supported3Not supported1Contradicted by evidence2
8 claims checked against independent sources, chosen by a fixed rule (every material claim (one that supports an argument, a policy or an attack) in the transcripts that count towards a score; in other transcripts, up to 10 claims spread evenly across each; plus any claim an emotional passage relies on). 0 more were found but not checked yet; they do not count.
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Partly supported85% confidence
“On 23 June 2016, in the biggest democratic exercise in the history of these islands”
Claim checkedThe EU referendum of 23 June 2016 was the biggest democratic exercise in the history of the British Isles.
Leave received more votes than any single option in UK history, but more people voted in the 1992 general election, so it was not quite the largest democratic exercise.
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Contradicted by evidence80% confidence
“judges in Strasbourg—who by the way are jurists, most of them not even legally qualified”
Claim checkedMost judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg are not legally qualified.
Article 21 of the convention requires judges to hold the qualifications for high judicial office or be jurisconsults of recognised competence, and the Parliamentary Assembly rejects candidate lists that do not meet this. Judges are drawn from national judiciaries, legal practice and academic law.
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Contradicted by evidence90% confidence
“we could be overruled by a convention that we signed up to in 1998”
Claim checkedThe UK signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights in 1998.
The UK signed the convention in 1950 and was the first state to ratify it, in 1951. 1998 is the year of the Human Rights Act, which incorporated it into domestic law.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“In the case of the 2022 Rwanda deportation flight, at 10 pm a single judge in Strasbourg, without any legal qualification, decided on the basis of article 3 that the flight could not take off.”
Claim checkedIn 2022 a single European Court of Human Rights judge without legal qualifications stopped the Rwanda deportation flight at 10 pm, on the basis of Article 3.
The June 2022 flight was halted by an urgent Rule 39 interim measure from an out-of-hours duty judge, on Article 3 grounds. The description of that judge as having no legal qualification is not supported.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“A Pakistani child sex offender dodged deportation on the basis that his removal would harm the children he had had in this country.”
Claim checkedA Pakistani child sex offender avoided deportation from the UK because his removal would harm the children he had fathered in the UK.
A first-tier tribunal did rule that deporting a Pakistani man convicted of child sex offences would be unduly harsh on his children. The Upper Tribunal later set that ruling aside on appeal, before this speech, and the case continued.