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Interview · 4 Jan 2026
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela
Video: YouTube: BBC News (official channel). Retrieved 7 Oct 2026.
Mostly straight talkProvisional
157 sentences · 28 checked claims · 23 questions
What makes up this item's score
DefinitionsAccuracy84%
Checked claims that hold upadds 8.0 of 50.0
Partly supported“since the crash in08, most people haven't seen their living standards improved.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · Resolution Foundation
Supported“previous prime ministers acted in exactly the same way in the actions they took to try to get him released”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · The New Arab · Euronews
Supported“that is a failing within the system which is why we're carrying out a review”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · The New Arab
Partly supported“The number of people employment has gone up.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · Office for National Statistics
Supported“the number of people who are inactive and now looking for work has gone up.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · Office for National Statistics
Supported“we put in place a number of measures to ameliate that situation.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · GOV.UK (Department for Work and Pensions) · Work Foundation, Lancaster University
Supported“the IMF which looks across the board at different countries is likely to predict that 2025 we were the second highest growth in the G7.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · City AM · MHA
Supported“there are key components of that deal which are in place and safeguarding jobs right now.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · GOV.UK (Department for Business and Trade) · Thomson Reuters
Supported“we got the best deal in relation to tariffs on car exports the US.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · GOV.UK (Department for Business and Trade) · Yahoo Finance
Supported“I've always been clear that we need a closer relationship with the EU.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · The Spectator
Supported“we've taken important steps towards that with the EU UK reset”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · Northern Ireland Assembly
Partly supported“We've already taken steps on food and agriculture to align with the single market.”
Interview, 4 Jan 2026 · Seafish · British Agriculture Bureau
Answers questions67%
Questions answered straightadds 16.3 of 50.0
Partly answeredQ: “Prime Minister, 2026 could transform or perhaps even terminate your leadership. So I wonder what's your New Year's resolution?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “You seem very cheerful and some people might be almost surprised that you're optimistic because you've had a very torid time. I mean, I thought your r…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “And if this long form interview works, we can try it again in January of next year as well. In September, we had a bit of a similar conversation. You …”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “But isn't it also the case that there have been an awful lot of unforced errors in your government? This is not just about people's impatience, which …”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “But it's almost impossible to understand that no one in the government had bothered to check what he'd said before and then that the prime minister of…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “Let's then talk about the economy in a bit more detail. You've already referenced it. Now, you promised that you would use the power that you have in …”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “But just at the very end of 2025, the 31 billion pound deal that you had hailed with Donald Trump signing it at checkers that was put on ice. And a lo…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “There are a lot of people in your party, um, even some people in your own cabinet who quite openly suggest that actually you should do something much …”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “But what's next?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “So what do you mean by that? So countries like Switzerland and Norway have access to the single market which is the one of the biggest economic tradin…”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Would you be willing to revisit freedom of movement allowing EU citizens with an with no limit to come to the UK again?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “and it's going to cost 55 570 million pounds?”
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg New Year interview: unpopularity, the EU, asylum hotels, Ukraine and Venezuela, 4 Jan 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
7 emotional passages labelled, 3 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.
How the number is built
8.0 + 16.3 = 24.3Bluff = 50 × (1 − Accuracy 84%) = 8.0
Spin = 50 × (1 − Answers questions 67%) = 16.3
BS Index = Bluff + Spin = 24.3 → shown as 24
The same fixed weights for everyone. Consistency and Substance are shown alongside, never in the number.
The record
Keir Starmer tells BBC he'll still be UK prime minister in 2027 | BBC News - YouTube. YouTube: BBC News (official channel), 4 Jan 2026. Open the video · hash and fetch details