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Interview · 5 Sep 2026
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats
Video: YouTube: ITV News (official channel). Retrieved 9 Oct 2026.
Some bluff & spin
191 sentences · 30 checked claims · 31 questions
What makes up this item's score
DefinitionsAccuracy63%
Checked claims that hold upadds 18.3 of 50.0
Supported“2 years ago, we were here in Birmingham. We just won a handful of MPs.”
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Partly supported“We're running nearly 35 councils up and down the country.”
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Supported“For 100 years, we've had two parties dominating British politics”
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Supported“Richard Tice's bank accounts being published online.”
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Supported“since our huge success on May the 7th”
Interview, 5 Sep 2026 · Full Fact · The Daily Signal
Partly supported“my expenses claims as an MP in 2 years is zero.”
Interview, 5 Sep 2026 · Deadline News
Partly supported“the accusation is I didn't fill in a piece of paper.”
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Answers questions79%
Questions answered straightadds 10.5 of 50.0
AnsweredQ: “Nigel Farage, you've had 5 years creating Reform UK. It's still a bit of a shambles, isn't it?”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Well, it was created 5 years ago as a name, as a brand, as a party.”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “But you you I mean But you are I mean, what you might call it accident-prone or shambolic, but you know, too many investigations. You had to sack two …”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Yeah, but your your your opposite numbers in the other parties aren't doing that, so it must be something about you and something about the party.”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “Yeah, I mean, obviously they're going to fight back, but this is a cheap conspiracy theory. What what's at issue is whether you're running the party p…”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
DodgedQ: “So, if you are found to have done wrong by the police, by Parliament, what does holding your hand up mean? Would you quit in those circumstances?”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “You and I have known each other for many years. You are probably the least naive politician I've ever met, all right? So, when I saw the undercover fi…”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “it ringing alarm bells in your head? Why didn't you Why didn't you just walk out the lunch?”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
DodgedQ: “But what does it say about your judgment in picking them in the first place?”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “So, what are you saying? That the way they were behaving was okay?”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Hang on, this is what about Nigel? What you know”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 Sep 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “in other cases. Are you 100% confident that never happened?”
ITV News interview at Reform's conference: the undercover donations sting, investigations, his family, the first 100 days and the boats, 5 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
11 emotional passages labelled, 6 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.
How the number is built
18.3 + 10.5 = 28.8Bluff = 50 × (1 − Accuracy 63%) = 18.3
Spin = 50 × (1 − Answers questions 79%) = 10.5
BS Index = Bluff + Spin = 28.8 → shown as 29
The same fixed weights for everyone. Consistency and Substance are shown alongside, never in the number.
The record
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