Speech to the Restore Britain conference

Rupert Lowe, Leader, Restore Britain

Video: YouTube: Manchester Evening News (official channel). Retrieved 5 Oct 2026.

No BS Index for this transcript

No questions were put, so answering cannot be measured. Claims that held up: 78% of 16 checked (Bluff 10.9 of 50). Its claims still count towards the overall score.

What we found

Definitions

Accuracy78%

Checked claims that hold up

Supported“we led the way in proposing to scrap the unaffordable triple lock and replace it with an annual pension increase linked to the consumer price index.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · GB News · Politics.co.uk

Supported“The state has become bigger.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · House of Lords Library (citing OBR public finances databank, August 2026) · Office for Budget Responsibility

Supported“Taxes have become higher.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · House of Lords Library (citing OBR) · Office for Budget Responsibility

Supported“Debt has become larger.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · Office for National Statistics · House of Lords Library

Partly supported“Inflation has soared.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · House of Commons Library (citing ONS series D7G7) · Office for National Statistics

Partly supported“the experience of ordinary Brits using public services has become so much worse.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · The King's Fund / Nuffield Trust (British Social Attitudes survey, NatCen) · Nuffield Trust

Partly supported“from roughly 45% of GDP towards the approximately 33% level inherited from the wretched Tony Blair in 1997.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · House of Lords Library (citing OBR) · Institute for Fiscal Studies

Partly supported“They pay enormous rent, record taxes, outrageous house prices, and ludicrous child care costs.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · Office for National Statistics · Office for National Statistics

Supported“The main immigration crisis lands in our country not at Dover, but at Gatwick, Heathrow, and Stansted.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · Office for National Statistics · Home Office

Partly supported“Our counselors in Norfolk, just 2 weeks ago, passed a motion to scrap all foreign language translation services in Norfolk.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · Great Yarmouth Mercury · Diss Express

Partly supported“we have constructed an energy system that imposes unnecessarily high costs on household and industry. The highest in the world.” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · Full Fact · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Supported“we are buying our hydrocarbons from Norway” Speech, 3 Oct 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DUKES 2025, Chapter 4) · Norwegian Ministry of Energy / Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Norwegianpetroleum.no)

All 16 checked claims, with sources

Answers questionsNot enough data

Questions answered straight

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

8 emotional passages labelled, 0 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.

The record

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