No questions were put, so answering cannot be measured. Claims that held up: 81% of 21 checked (Bluff 9.5 of 50). Its claims still count towards the overall score.
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22 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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Supported70% confidence
“we did win elections in greater numbers than ever before.”
Claim checkedIn the 2026 elections the Green Party won more seats than it had ever won before.
In the May 2026 local elections the Greens made large gains, with 456 net new councillors in England and Wales, control of five councils (including Hackney and Waltham Forest) and their first two directly elected London mayors. Coverage described this as the party's best local election result.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“More than 90 primary schools have shut down since 2019 because there aren't enough children to fill them.”
Claim checkedIn London, more than 90 primary schools have closed since 2019 because there are not enough children to fill them.
A London Councils report (2026) found that about 90 London schools had closed or merged over the previous five years, mainly because of falling pupil numbers driven by lower birth rates and families leaving because of housing costs. That figure covers mergers as well as closures and is not limited to primary schools, so 'more than 90 primary schools have shut down' overstates it.
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Supported70% confidence
“Like Bristol Greens. They are breaking records on affordable homes.”
Claim checkedGreen-led Bristol City Council delivered a record number of affordable homes in 2025/26.
More than 680 affordable homes were completed in Bristol between April 2025 and April 2026 (197 of them built by the council), the highest number in about 20 years, under the Green-led council. Some of these schemes were started under the previous Labour administration.
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Supported65% confidence
“Stroud are one of the biggest council home builders in the whole of England.”
Claim checkedGreen-led Stroud District Council is one of the biggest builders of council homes in England (2025/26).
Reports in May 2026 said that Green-led Stroud District Council's council-home starts in 2025/26 put it in the top 10 English councils, with only Leeds, Basildon and Harlow starting more in 2024/25, the latest year with comparable data. The comparison mixes two different years.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“for too long landlords have been able to hike prices way above wages”
Claim checkedFor years private landlords in the UK have been able to raise rents far faster than wages have grown.
Resolution Foundation analysis found that private rents rose 24.2% between May 2022 and mid-2025, while nominal wages rose 18.6%. So rents did outpace wages over that period. But ONS data show that rent growth has since slowed to 3.8% in the year to August 2026, so 'way above wages' overstates the recent gap.
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Supported70% confidence
“Over the next year, more than a third of the money that the DWP will spend on housing benefits will go straight into the pockets of private landlords”
Claim checkedIn 2026-27, more than a third of DWP spending on housing benefits (Housing Benefit and the Universal Credit housing element) will go to private landlords.
DWP projections put total housing support (Housing Benefit plus the Universal Credit housing element) at a record £38.8bn in 2026-27. Reports of those projections said about 35% of it goes to private rented sector landlords, which is more than a third.
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Supported65% confidence
“That's 13.4 billion pounds”
Claim checkedThe share of DWP housing benefit spending that goes to private landlords over the next year (2026-27) is £13.4 billion.
35% of the DWP's forecast £38.8bn housing support bill for 2026-27 is about £13.6bn, which is consistent with £13.4bn. Earlier figures were of the same order: £12.3bn went to private renters' housing support in 2023-24. The exact £13.4bn figure comes from the Green Party, and no published DWP table showing it was found.
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Can't verify50% confidence
“Jonathan Reynolds on Question Time say no economist support rent controls”
Claim checkedBusiness Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said on BBC Question Time (September 2026) that no economist supports rent controls.
The only article found that reports the remark (Left Foot Forward) is reporting Polanski's own speech. No independent transcript or report of Jonathan Reynolds' words on Question Time could be retrieved. If he did say it, at least some economists do back rent controls, for example a July 2026 UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose report by economists Beth Stratford and Joe Beswick.
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Supported80% confidence
“They're having to deal with their lifeboats being targeted with trackers.”
Claim checkedIn September 2026 RNLI lifeboats on rescue missions were tracked through their location transponders by people hostile to their work, which led the RNLI to switch off the trackers.
In September 2026 the RNLI switched off the AIS location transponders on two lifeboats. This came after reports that anti-immigration protesters had used AIS to track the boats during a Channel rescue and had attacked one of them. Separately, the Portsmouth station was taken off service on 7 September 2026 after protests and threats against crews.
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Supported85% confidence
“Just a few days ago the Foreign Secretary stood on a stage like this and said something many of us will feel vindicated by. That those who have been raising their voices against the atrocities in Gaza were right.”
Claim checkedA few days before 2 October 2026, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said in his Labour conference speech that people who had spoken out about the suffering in Gaza were right.
On 28 September 2026, four days before this speech, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband spoke at the Labour conference in Liverpool. He told those 'moved by the plight of the Palestinian people': 'We hear you. You were right.' He also called the suffering in Gaza and the West Bank 'a stain on the conscience of the world'.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“as he spoke meters away principled people were being hauled away by the police.”
Claim checkedWhile Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband gave his Labour conference speech, police were arresting protesters holding signs just outside the venue.
Merseyside Police arrested 82 people outside the Labour conference venue in Liverpool under the Terrorism Act for holding signs supporting Palestine Action, and pensioners were among them. Reports place those arrests on Sunday 27 September 2026, the day before Miliband's speech on Monday 28 September, not while he was speaking.
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Supported80% confidence
“Hundreds of [Labour] MPs willing to label people terrorists, to troop through the voting lobbies to approve it.”
Claim checkedHundreds of Labour MPs voted in July 2025 to approve the order proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
On 2 July 2025 the Commons approved the order proscribing Palestine Action (and other groups) by 385 votes to 26; 276 Labour MPs voted for it. The vote proscribed organisations, not individuals, but supporting a proscribed group became a terrorism offence.
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Supported90% confidence
“Our MPs didn't troop through the yes lobby.”
Claim checkedGreen MPs did not vote for the July 2025 order proscribing Palestine Action.
Division records for the 2 July 2025 vote on the proscription order show that all four Green MPs at the time (Carla Denyer, Ellie Chowns, Siân Berry and Adrian Ramsay) voted against it and none voted for it.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“it was only after we demanded that the Prime Minister call a Cobra meeting that he finally did it.”
Claim checkedThe Prime Minister called a Cobra meeting on the August 2026 heatwave only after the Green Party demanded one, and its outcome was a ban on disposable barbecues.
Polanski called for a Cobra meeting on the heatwave in early August 2026, and the government at first refused (around 10 August). PM Andy Burnham then chaired Cobra on 12 August, so the order of events matches, but the record does not show the Green call caused the meeting. ITV also reports an earlier heatwave Cobra in June. The outcome was not an outright ban: the government urged retailers to stop selling disposable barbecues, extended the restrictions on their sale and said it would consider a temporary summer ban.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“But what was the outcome? To ban disposable barbecues.”
Claim checkedThe outcome of the August 2026 COBR meeting on wildfires was a ban on disposable barbecues.
After the COBR meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, the government announced on 14 August 2026 an immediate, temporary nationwide ban on selling disposable barbecues. The same package also included an Emergency Alert, emergency funding for fire services and military support in South Wales. The ban was therefore one outcome among several, not the only one.
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Supported85% confidence
“reports that the same government is set to give the go-ahead to dangerous new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.”
Claim checkedSome weeks after the August 2026 Cobra meeting, there were reports that the government was set to approve new oil and gas development in the North Sea.
In September 2026 the BBC and the Guardian, citing government and industry sources, reported that the government was expected to approve the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea in mid-September. The Guardian also reported that the Rosebank oil field could be approved in the coming months. These reports came weeks after the 12 August Cobra meeting. Calling the drilling 'dangerous' is an opinion and was not checked.
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Supported60% confidence
“We know that drilling for new fossil fuels, it won't bring down bills.”
Claim checkedDrilling for new oil and gas in the North Sea will not bring down UK energy bills.
Ministers have themselves said that gas prices are set internationally, so new North Sea licences 'would not take a penny off bills'. A minister said this in the Commons on 15 June 2026, and Ed Miliband used the same words in May 2026. How much new fields would add to energy security is still debated.
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Partly supported50% confidence
“we heard that the government had delayed giving the green light to new oil and gas drilling at Rosebank and Jackdaw.”
Claim checkedIn September 2026 it was reported that the government had delayed approving new oil and gas drilling at the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields.
Decisions on Rosebank and Jackdaw were still pending after the consultations closed in August 2026; the minister told MPs on 3 September they would come 'in due course'. On 15 September Conservative MPs said in the Commons that there were further delays linked to a by-election. The government has not given that reason, so the motive Polanski gives is an inference.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“Ed Miliband took the first long overdue step by banning trade with illegal settlements.”
Claim checkedIn September 2026 Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband banned trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
On 8 September 2026 Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced plans to ban imports of goods from illegal Israeli settlements, along with new sanctions powers and a ban on advertising settlement property. These were announced as new powers still to be brought in, and they cover settlement goods and related services rather than all trade.
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Supported70% confidence
“The UN Secretary-General said, "This is the crucial decade for climate action."”
Claim checkedThe UN Secretary-General has said that this is the crucial decade for climate action.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly called the 2020s the critical or decisive decade for climate action, including in his COP26 address of November 2021, 'Action and Solidarity – The Critical Decade'. The quoted words are a close paraphrase rather than his exact wording.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“Under Labour, rents are set to rise, energy bills are spiking”
Claim checkedUnder the Labour government in autumn 2026, private rents are rising and energy bills are rising sharply.
ONS data show average UK private rents rose 3.8% in the year to August 2026, and the Ofgem price cap rose by 4% on 1 October 2026 because of wholesale price volatility. Rents and energy bills are both rising, but 'spiking' overstates a 4% rise in the cap.
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Supported85% confidence
“It has fueled our membership to record levels”
Claim checkedOver the year to October 2026, Green Party of England and Wales membership rose to the highest level in its history.
Green Party of England and Wales membership grew from about 68,500 when Polanski became leader in September 2025 to 230,000 by June 2026, as reported by HuffPost UK and the Guardian. This is well above any earlier total for the party.
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Procedural claims (the speaker's own dates, petition counts, who said what, background), clear slips of the tongue, and words read out from someone else. They stay on the record and do not count in Accuracy.
Supported“Hannah Spencer, MP, putting forward a law to protect workers from extreme temperatures.”Procedural: Says a colleague is putting forward a bill; an event, not a claim. · Speech to Green Party conference, Brighton, 2 Oct 2026
Supported“our MP, Adrian Ramsay, led a vital debate in Parliament. He called on the government to release a buried report detailing the threat posed by our national security by the climate and nature crisis.”Procedural: Says a colleague led a debate; an event, not a claim. · Speech to Green Party conference, Brighton, 2 Oct 2026