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Supported85% confidence
“In Wales well, we're neck and neck right now, and literally neck and neck with Plaid in those polls.”
Claim checkedReform UK and Plaid Cymru were neck and neck in Welsh polls for the 2026 Senedd election.
April 2026 Senedd polls put Reform UK and Plaid Cymru close together: a YouGov poll had both on 29%, Ipsos had Plaid on 30% and Reform on 25%, and a Survation poll had Reform on 30% and Plaid on 28%.
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Partly supported50% confidence
“the Labour Party particularly in the valleys, you know, Keir Hardie real birthplace of the Labour Party almost disappearing off the map.”
Claim checkedSupport for the Labour Party in Wales, especially in the south Wales valleys, has almost disappeared.
Welsh Labour was polling third, on about 13-15%, in April 2026, far below its usual share. No poll for the valleys alone was found, and 'almost disappearing off the map' overstates a party still polling in double figures.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“put up thousands of candidates”
Claim checkedReform UK put up thousands of candidates at the 2025 local elections.
Reform UK stood 1,631 candidates in the May 2025 English local elections, 99.4% of seats and more than any other party. That is well over a thousand, but short of the 'thousands' the words suggest.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“I was very careful last year, even when I spoke to you that night on the eve of the election, very careful not to over-promise and under-deliver.”
Claim checkedNigel Farage was careful during the 2025 local elections not to over-promise on what Reform UK councils would deliver.
Full Fact found no case of him explicitly promising to cut or freeze council tax in 2025. But a widely circulated Reform leaflet with his picture pledged to 'reduce waste and cut your taxes', and he said 'we will cut taxes' in a March 2025 speech, which voters could read as local promises.
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Can't verify50% confidence
“I went round the country relentlessly saying we would save money and keep council tax rises to the absolute minimum.”
Claim checkedDuring the 2025 local elections Nigel Farage campaigned across the country saying Reform UK councils would save money and keep council tax rises to the absolute minimum.
Full Fact found him pledging to cut taxes and reduce waste in 2025, mainly as national policy, but no record of a campaign message about keeping council tax rises to a minimum.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“A year on, we have delivered.”
Claim checkedA year after the 2025 local elections, Reform UK councils have delivered on saving money and keeping council tax rises to a minimum.
For 2026/27 the nine councils with a Reform majority raised Band D council tax by 3.94% on average, against 4.86% across England, the lowest of any party. But none cut or froze it, as some candidates promised, and some (North Northamptonshire, Doncaster) set the 4.99% maximum.
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Partly supported50% confidence
“there are other models in our European neighbors where taxpayers' money is farmed out through efficient, competitive ways that gets better bang for the buck.”
Claim checkedSome European countries spend public money on health through efficient, competitive models that give better value than the NHS.
Germany and the Netherlands run health systems with competing insurers, funded by contributions topped up with tax. But a comparison of European systems found no strong evidence that any funding model gets better value than the UK's tax-funded one.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“we've gone from being 7.5% of GDP to 11.5% of GDP in the last few years expenditure on health with fewer hospital beds with worse outcomes.”
Claim checkedUK health spending has risen from 7.5% to 11.5% of GDP in the last few years, with fewer hospital beds and worse outcomes.
Total UK healthcare spending was 11.1% of GDP in 2024 and about 11.4% in 2025 (ONS), up from 9.7-10% in 2009-2019. The lower figure of about 7.5-8% is government-only spending in 2015-16 (OECD), so the comparison mixes two measures and overstates the rise. Bed numbers and outcomes were not checked.
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