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Partly supported75% confidence
“we commissioned the Rycroft review, capped overseas donations and introduced a moratorium on crypto donations”
Claim checkedThe Government has commissioned the Rycroft review of political donations, capped donations from overseas and introduced a moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to political parties.
The Government commissioned Philip Rycroft's review in December 2025 and, responding on 25 March 2026, announced a moratorium on cryptoasset donations and a £100,000 annual cap on donations from overseas electors, both backdated to 25 March 2026. Both are delivered through amendments to the Representation of the People Bill, which was still before Parliament in June 2026 (the Lords debated it on 14 September 2026), so neither measure was yet in law when the claim was made.
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Supported75% confidence
“The last Government cancelled work to address this”
Claim checkedThe previous Conservative government stopped work on the Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme to remove the Croydon rail bottleneck, as Keir Starmer said on 3 June 2026.
The Brighton Main Line upgrade, including the Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme and Norwood Junction works, was paused at outline business case stage under the Conservative government (Network Rail cites the pandemic; a transport minister said in March 2026 it had been dropped in 2021) and was not funded in later spending reviews.
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Supported85% confidence
“the first freeze in rail fares for 30 years”
Claim checkedRail fares have been frozen for the first time in 30 years.
Regulated rail fares in England were frozen from 2 March 2026 until March 2027, which trade and news reports describe as the first freeze of regulated fares in 30 years. Regulated fares cover about 45% of fares, so unregulated fares were not covered by the freeze.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“apprenticeship starts fell by 40% on their watch”
Claim checkedApprenticeship starts in England fell by 40% while the Conservatives were in government (2010-2024), as Keir Starmer said on 3 June 2026.
Apprenticeship starts in England did fall sharply under the Conservatives, from about 509,000 in 2015/16 to about 321,000 in 2020/21 (37%) and from about 491,000 in 2016/17 to 340,000 in 2023/24 (about 31%). Even from the coalition-era peak of about 520,000 in 2011/12 the fall to the 2020/21 low was about 38%, so the 40% figure is somewhat overstated.
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Partly supported50% confidence
“It soared by £88 billion on their watch.”
Claim checkedThe welfare bill rose by £88 billion while the Conservatives were in government.
The £88 billion figure matches a line Keir Starmer posted on X (around December 2025), but no published source or method for it was found. In cash terms welfare spending rose by a sum of roughly this size or more between 2010 and 2024 (the OBR put 2010-11 welfare spending at about £192 billion). As a share of GDP, the Resolution Foundation reports that total welfare spending fell after 2012-13, so 'soared' applies to cash totals rather than to real or relative terms.
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Supported75% confidence
“Nearly 3 million people were written off.”
Claim checkedNearly 3 million people were written off by the benefits system while the Conservatives were in government.
ONS figures show about 2.8 million people aged 16 to 64 economically inactive because of long-term sickness, a record of about 2.83 million in 2024 and about 2.81 million in August to October 2025, which fits 'nearly 3 million'. 'Written off' describes these people rather than stating a measurable fact.
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Supported75% confidence
“The fastest growing economy in the G7”
Claim checkedThe UK had the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in the first quarter of 2026, the latest figures available when Keir Starmer spoke on 3 June 2026.
ONS figures published on 14 May 2026 showed UK GDP grew 0.6% in the first quarter of 2026, the fastest in the G7 that quarter (Japan was next at 0.4%). The OECD's June 2026 forecast put the UK joint second in the G7 for 2026 as a whole, but the claim refers to growth so far.
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Supported70% confidence
“the OECD forecasts that UK growth is up and inflation is down”
Claim checkedThe OECD's latest forecasts have UK economic growth going up and inflation coming down, despite the war in the Middle East.
The OECD Economic Outlook published on 3 June 2026 raised its UK 2026 growth forecast from 0.7% (March 2026) to 0.9% and cut its 2026 inflation forecast from 4.0% to 3.7%, despite the Middle East conflict. Compared with 2025 rather than with the earlier forecast, the same outlook still had growth slowing (from 1.4%) and inflation rising (from 3.4%).
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Supported85% confidence
“Net migration, which reached nearly a million under the Conservatives—the Leader of the Opposition was the cheerleader—is down by a staggering 82%.”
Claim checkedUK net migration, which peaked at nearly one million under the Conservative government, has fallen by 82% (to the latest figure available on 3 June 2026).
Revised ONS estimates put net migration at a peak of 944,000 in the year ending March 2023, under the Conservative government, and provisional figures published on 21 May 2026 put it at 171,000 in the year ending December 2025, a fall of about 82%.
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Supported80% confidence
“The asylum backlog is down by 46%.”
Claim checkedThe UK asylum backlog has fallen by 46%.
Home Office data put the initial-decision asylum backlog at about 49,000 cases at the end of 2025, 46% lower than a year earlier. The figures for the end of March 2026, the latest available on 3 June 2026, showed a larger fall: 48,758 people waiting, down 55% on March 2025 and 72% below the June 2023 peak. Over the same period the appeals backlog rose sharply.
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Not supported65% confidence
“We are delivering the fastest reduction in waiting times in the history of the NHS.”
Claim checkedThe Labour government is delivering the fastest reduction in NHS waiting times in the history of the NHS, as Keir Starmer said on 3 June 2026.
NHS England figures to March 2026 show the waiting list fell by about 312,000 over the year, the largest year-on-year fall in 16 years, and the 18-week performance had its biggest improvement since 2010. That is a record for about 16-17 years, not for the history of the NHS; the government itself said only that it was 'on track' to deliver the fastest reduction.
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Not supported80% confidence
“We have lifted half a million children out of poverty.”
Claim checkedThe Labour Government has lifted half a million children out of poverty.
Half a million is a projection, not a measured outcome. The Government's child poverty strategy (December 2025, updated March 2026) projects 550,000 fewer children in relative low income by 2029-30, 450,000 of them from removing the two-child limit, which only took effect in April 2026. The latest official figures (HBAI 2024/25, published 26 March 2026) show child poverty after housing costs unchanged at 31%.
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Supported80% confidence
“Every pub will get 15% off its new business rates bill”
Claim checkedEvery pub in England will get 15% off its new (2026) business rates bill, with bills then frozen in real terms for two more years, as Keir Starmer said on 3 June 2026.
The Treasury announced in January 2026 that pubs and live music venues in England would get 15% off their business rates bills from April 2026 under the revaluation, with bills then frozen in real terms for 2027-28 and 2028-29.
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Supported75% confidence
“a self-professed sexist who said women who get an abortion do it for “vanity purposes”, who encouraged people not to get the covid vaccine and who said Russia was “within its rights” to invade Crimea”
Claim checkedReform UK's candidate for Makerfield has called himself sexist, said women have abortions for “vanity purposes”, encouraged people not to get the Covid vaccine and said Russia was “within its rights” to invade Crimea.
Reform UK's Makerfield candidate, Wigan councillor Robert Kenyon, was reported in May and June 2026 to have posted online 'I'm sexist, sorry but I am', to have said in 2019 that women have abortions for 'vanity purposes', to have written in 2022 'stop having boosters' and told Chris Whitty to 'f*** right off' over booster jabs, and to have written that Russia was 'well within their rights' over Crimea. Mr Kenyon said he is not anti-vaccine and had his first Covid jabs, and Reform said he never endorsed Russia's actions, so the vaccine remark concerned boosters in particular.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“investing £7 million to tackle antisemitism within our universities”
Claim checkedThe Government is investing £7 million to tackle antisemitism in universities.
The £7 million covers antisemitism work across schools, colleges and universities, not universities alone; £500,000 of it went to the University Jewish Chaplaincy. The money was first committed by the previous government in the 2023 Autumn Statement, and the current Government resumed it in October 2024.
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Supported75% confidence
“the £450 million investment that we have provided to expand urgent and emergency care capacity”
Claim checkedThe Labour government has provided £450 million to expand urgent and emergency care capacity across England (in the 2025/26 urgent and emergency care plan), as Keir Starmer said on 3 June 2026.
The government's Urgent and Emergency Care Plan 2025/26, published in June 2025, committed about £450 million, including around 40 new same day emergency care and urgent treatment centres, up to 15 mental health crisis centres and about 500 new ambulances. Whether patients are benefiting is broad but the funding was provided.
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Partly supported80% confidence
“We have invested £39 billion to deliver more social and affordable homes”
Claim checkedThe Government has invested £39 billion to deliver more social and affordable homes.
The Government committed up to £39 billion to the Social and Affordable Homes Programme at the June 2025 Spending Review, to be spent over ten years from 2026-27 to 2035-36. Bidding opened in February 2026 and the first allocation decisions were due from December 2026, so 'invested' overstates what had been spent by June 2026: it was a funding commitment, not money already invested.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“This programme is England’s first targeted cancer screening programme.”
Claim checkedThe new targeted prostate cancer screening programme for high-risk men is England's first targeted cancer screening programme, as Keir Starmer said on 3 June 2026.
The government accepted the UK National Screening Committee's recommendation for England's first targeted prostate cancer screening programme (PSA tests every two years for men aged 45-61 with a BRCA2 variant), due to roll out from 2027. But it is not England's first targeted cancer screening programme: the NHS lung cancer screening programme, targeted at people aged 55-74 with a smoking history, has been rolling out nationally since 2023.