Accountability
Claims, checked against the record
A claim is recorded with who said it, where and when, from a captured source. A fact check compares it with the official record — results, tenders, awards, projects, budgets, audit opinions, funding declarations — and gives one verdict from a fixed scale, with every piece of evidence linked. We rate statements, not motives; a claim the record cannot settle is marked “insufficient evidence”, never false.
- The record supports the claim as made.
- Part of the claim is supported; the rest is not, or is overstated.
- The record states otherwise.
- Nothing on the record supports the claim and the claimant has produced no evidence.
- The record does not hold enough to judge either way. Not a finding of falsehood.
- Official sources disagree with each other; both are shown.
Fact checks appear here once the editorial team publishes them.
The claims system is live: claims are recorded and checked in the editorial desk, reviewed by a second editor, and published here with their evidence. Until then the public-money record itself is open: tenders, projects, budgets and audits, party funding.