16 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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Supported90% confidence
“This was not my post. It was a collaboration from a photographer. It had 20 images”
Claim checkedZack Polanski's Instagram post showing the 'Making plans for Nigel' guillotine T-shirt was a collaboration post from a photographer containing 20 images, which he accepted without looking carefully.
ITV reported Polanski saying this on Newsnight, and other reports confirm he accepted an Instagram collaborator request on a photographer's post of about 20 images from a Green Party event in Bristol; the guillotine T-shirt was one image. He appeared on the post through the collaboration feature rather than uploading it himself.
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Supported75% confidence
“As soon as I was aware of what happened, I unaccepted it and took it down.”
Claim checkedZack Polanski unaccepted the collaboration and took the post down once he became aware of the guillotine T-shirt image.
Reports confirm the post was removed from his account after the row and that he said he unaccepted the collaboration and took it down. The exact timing ('as soon as I was aware') rests on his own account.
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“I accepted nine collaborations from that party.”
Claim checkedZack Polanski accepted nine collaboration requests on Instagram from the Green Party event in question.
The figure of nine collaboration requests accepted from that event appears only in Polanski's own Newsnight account as reported by one outlet; no independent record was found.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“in May I experienced lots of threats, including today, by the way I experienced a death threat but in May a Nazi who was near a reform banner threw a salute at me and was arrested. No one ever spoke about it. No one ever reported it.”
Claim checkedIn April/May 2026 a man performing Nazi salutes near a Reform banner at a Green Party rally addressed by Zack Polanski was arrested, and it received no public attention; Polanski also said he had received a death threat that day.
A Green Party rally in Hastings addressed by Polanski on 30 April 2026 was disrupted by men with Reform UK and St George's flags, and a 62-year-old man was arrested over Nazi salutes there, so the arrest is real (it was at the end of April, not May). The claim that no one spoke about it or reported it is wrong, as it was covered by several outlets. The death threat he mentions that day cannot be checked.
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Partly supported80% confidence
“[Zia Yusuf] said if I wasn't arrested by this time tomorrow then it's open season on all MPs.”
Claim checkedReform UK's Zia Yusuf said that if Zack Polanski was not arrested by this time the next day, it would be open season on all MPs.
Zia Yusuf posted on X on 27 July 2026 that if Polanski was not in police custody by this time tomorrow, the police would have declared open season on MPs. Polanski's paraphrase turns the condition around slightly (it was the police, not Yusuf, who would be declaring it) but the substance matches.
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“it got less than a thousand likes.”
Claim checkedThe original Instagram collaboration post got fewer than a thousand likes before Nigel Farage shared it.
No public data on the like count of the original photographer's post was found; Polanski's figure is his own, and the post has been removed from his profile.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“Nigel Farage then took it cropped it so it made it look like I posted it”
Claim checkedNigel Farage shared a cropped version of the image that made it look as though Zack Polanski had posted it himself.
Reports say Farage posted a cropped screenshot of the image on X, which made it look as if Polanski had posted it himself. However, the post did appear on Polanski's profile through the collaboration he accepted, so the description is partly fair. Whether the crop was deliberate is a characterisation.
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“It's now had 3.2 million views.”
Claim checkedThe cropped post shared by Nigel Farage had received 3.2 million views.
The 3.2 million views figure comes from Polanski's interview; the view counter on the X post could not be checked and no independent report confirmed the number.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“this whole conversation has been seen more because Nigel Farage, [Zia Yusuf], and I think Richard Tice posted it.”
Claim checkedThe row over the image was seen more widely because Nigel Farage, Zia Yusuf and Richard Tice posted it.
Farage called for Polanski's arrest and Zia Yusuf publicly accused him of 'inciting murder', and Reform UK amplified the image; one search summary says Richard Tice also posted it, but this was not independently confirmed. That the row was seen more because of their posts is a plausible inference but not measured.
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Supported80% confidence
“Nigel Farage put out a video that talked about cold, pure rage, and then we saw a riot.”
Claim checkedNigel Farage put out a video calling for 'cold, pure rage' and riots then took place in Southampton.
Farage released a video on 7 June 2026 calling for 'pure cold rage' after the Henry Nowak body-camera footage, and disorder followed in Southampton in which police officers were injured. Starmer accused Farage of inciting it; the causal link is contested but the sequence is accurate.
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Supported85% confidence
“The first mistake with the Golders Green attack was that I shared in haste and I should have gone to the Met Commissioner. That's why I apologized.”
Claim checkedZack Polanski shared a post about the Golders Green attack in haste, apologised, and said he should instead have raised it with the Met Commissioner.
Polanski reposted a post on X accusing police of kicking the Golders Green stabbing suspect in the head, was criticised by Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, and apologised for 'sharing a tweet in haste'. That he should have gone to the Commissioner instead is his opinion.
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Supported70% confidence
“he's ruled out rent controls.”
Claim checkedPrime Minister Andy Burnham has ruled out rent controls.
In July 2026 Housing Secretary Angela Rayner told BBC Breakfast that Andy Burnham's government would not pursue rent controls, reversing his earlier support for rent caps as Greater Manchester mayor. Reports say Burnham was set to ditch the policy.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“If we brought in rent controls, we could save the average UK household up to £2,400 a year and save government £2 billion a year.”
Claim checkedZack Polanski said rent controls could save the average UK household up to £2,400 a year and save the government £2 billion a year.
A UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose report estimated rent controls could save the average private tenant in England about £2,400 a year, and that had rents been frozen in November 2022 the government could be spending £2 billion a year less on housing benefit. The figures are about private tenants in England, not the average UK household, and they come from a modelled scenario (a freeze) rather than any specific rent control policy.
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Supported85% confidence
“It makes no sense that if someone is ill with cancer, they get free health care, as they should, but if they have dementia, they don't.”
Claim checkedZack Polanski said that people with cancer get free health care but people with dementia do not.
NHS care for cancer is free at the point of use, while people with dementia usually rely on means-tested social care and pay for it unless their needs are assessed as a primary health need (NHS Continuing Healthcare). The King's Fund and the Alzheimer's Society describe this as the long-standing cancer/dementia inequity in the system.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“In the last 3 years, in three regions of the UK, because of the outsourcing of social care, private providers have made up to 240 million pounds.”
Claim checkedZack Polanski said that in the last three years, in three UK regions, private social care providers made up to £240 million because of outsourcing.
A Reclaiming our Regional Economies (CLES) study found private care providers in the North East, South Yorkshire and the West Midlands made about £256m in profit between 2021 and 2024, and reported 'extraction' above £250m. That is close to but slightly above the 'up to £240 million' quoted, and the period covers roughly three years of company accounts.
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“I actually collaborated with eight people that evening.”
Claim checkedZack Polanski said he collaborated with eight people on Instagram on the evening of the Bristol event.
Reports describe a 20-image Instagram collaboration post from a photographer after a Bristol fundraiser, but none says how many people Polanski collaborated with that evening. This is a personal account that cannot be checked.
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