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🇬🇧 UK Politics Fact-Check League
Each day we take the most-discussed claim in UK politics, fact-check it against primary sources, and score it 0–100 on a truth meter. Everyone featured earns a place in the running league table.
Running league
Honesty League
Ranked by average truth score across every claim we've checked. Click a column to sort.
| # |
Figure |
Party |
Claims |
Avg score |
Best |
Worst |
Every claim checked
Jump to a day, or click any claim to see the full verdict, evidence and sources.
How this works & how it's scored
Daily method
- Identify the most-discussed claim in UK politics that day (PMQs, major speeches, broadsheet coverage, social reach).
- Fact-check it against primary sources first (ONS, NAO, House of Commons Library, Hansard) and established fact-checkers (Full Fact, BBC Reality Check, Channel 4 FactCheck).
- Score it 0–100 on the truth meter and write a plain-English verdict with the evidence and sources.
- Append it to
data/entries.json; the league recomputes automatically from every entry.
Truth meter bands
League scoring
- Each figure's average score is the mean truth score of every claim attributed to them.
- Higher = more truthful. The table also shows their best and worst single claim.
- Claims are scored as used; where accuracy depends on the time period, the verdict says so.