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Andy Burnham

Prime Minister of the UK · Labour Party

Mostly straight talk

Bluff17%Spin28%

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Against the field

Andy Burnham

Labour · UK

Joint 7th highest BS Index of 9

Mostly straight talk

BS Index · 22Lower is better

0 · straight talk50

Accuracy · 83% of checked claims hold upHigher is better

0%100%

Answers · 72% of questions answered straightHigher is better

0%100%

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Five Tells

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Unsupported claims 17% Checked claims that did not hold up (partly supported counts as half) Self-contradictions – Not checked yet Dodged questions 28% Questions not answered straight (partly answered or openly declined counts as half) Emotional appeal 9% Emotional passages used in place of an answer or evidence, or off the subject. Emotion that fits the subject is not counted Vague answers Shown, not scored – Not measured yet

Each spoke shows how often it happened: further out means more often. The BS Index goes up with the first four; a hollow dot is context only and does not change the score.

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Accuracy83%

Checked claims that hold upadds 8.5 of 50.0

Supported“I didn't hesitate to call the Cobra meeting this week.” Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · LBC · LBC

Partly supported“there's a clear majority of people in Britain who say the privatization of water has been a disaster” Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Water Magazine · Euronews

Partly supported“I didn't talk about the other party leaders or the other parties.” Interview, 30 Sep 2026 · Brussels Signal · The Spectator

All 91 checked claims, with sources

Answers questions72%

Questions answered straightadds 14.0 of 50.0

Partly answeredQ: “Prime Minister, I'm going to get on to your incredibly consequential speech in a moment, but before I do, you've said there is a strong indication tha…” Sky News interview with Beth Rigby: Iran, the cost of living and Europe, 30 Sep 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “Will you recall parliament?” Sky News interview with Beth Rigby: Iran, the cost of living and Europe, 30 Sep 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “Okay. And right, okay, Prime Minister, thank you for that. Now, you said in your speech yesterday that you want to draw a line on a decade of division…” Sky News interview with Beth Rigby: Iran, the cost of living and Europe, 30 Sep 2026 · video

All 73 questions

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.

Substance91%

Emotion that comes with substanceshown, not in the score

23 emotional passages labelled, 2 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.