Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
64/100
Daily Mail's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
5
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A Reform activist and potential parliamentary candidate caught on camera saying 'you cannot be a Muslim and British' and advocating for migrant concentration camps has been suspended by the party.
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you → catch → party
Jason Powell is being investigated by the party after being filmed by an undercover ITV Exposure team making the remarks at a 'Farage Fest' in the summer after the party leader was re-elected as MP for Clacton.
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leader → investigate → Clacton
Mr Powell, who said he had passed vetting required to stand to be a Reform MP, told an undercover reporter he was 'pretty hardline about Islam' and was likely to have disagreements with the party's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf, a British Muslim.
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he → say → spokesman
He was also outspoken about migrant boats, saying that on the first day of a Reform government 'they just need to be rounded up, every single last one of them, and sent to those concentration camps'.
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they → say → camps
He said if they failed to reveal their true country of origin they should be told: 'You're staying here for the rest of your life.'
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You → say → life
Asked if Mr Powell had been suspended, a Reform spokesman said: 'Where members, activists and councillors have clearly behaved inappropriately, investigations have commenced.
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investigations → ask → ?
In some cases, there have been suspensions and due process must be followed.'
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process → follow → cases
Jason Powell is being investigated after being filmed by an undercover ITV team making the remarks at a 'Farage Fest' after the party leader was re-elected as MP for Clacton
It comes ahead of the broadcast of the year-long probe into Reform by ITV Exposure and Hardcash Productions, which is due to be aired tonight.
Several Reform councillors have already quit after the probe filmed them describing black children as 'animals', making sexist jokes – including about incest – and suggesting the King should be beheaded for being a secret Muslim.
In other scenes released ahead of broadcast one member said the party had a vetting philosophy that asked if applicants were 'a f***ing lunatic' and likely to create bad headlines.
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applicants → investigate → headlines
In another, Runcorn and Helsby MP Sarah Pochin branded the party 'so f***ing chauvinistic', telling an undercover reporter: 'I go out on all the shows, and go: 'Oh no, it's lovely, oh they're all so welcoming.'
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they → brand → shows
Shit… they just exclude you if you're a woman…
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you → exclude → you
It's really tough being a girl with all of this alpha male shit going on.'
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It → go → shit
Other footage included a councillor saying the party's board was 'hardline', adding they held views that would result in their expulsion if expressed publicly.
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that → include → expulsion
Reform UK has insisted there is 'no room for racism' in its ranks, while the party's leader Nigel Farage said the ITV Exposure investigation was carried out 'because the establishment frankly want us out of the picture'.
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us → insist → picture
Reform has been embroiled in a separate row over what it means to be English.
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it → embroil → what
Earlier this month Suella Braverman, who was home secretary in the previous Tory government before defecting to Reform UK, suggested that British Asians like herself can't be English.
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Asians → defect → herself
In an appearance on BBC's Question Time the Reform MP said she is 'British of Asian ethnicity' rather than English because of her family's foreign heritage.
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she → say → heritage
She followed up on social media saying 'Englishness is an ethnicity,' sparking criticism from figures including Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.
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Englishness → follow → Badenoch
She was also criticised by Mr Yusuf, her party colleague.
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She → criticise → Yusuf
Asked by Sky News about the nationality of black England footballers Ashley Cole, Bukayo Saka and Jude Bellingham, he replied: 'Every single person that you just mentioned there, whether it's Saka, Ashley Cole, Rio Ferdinand, Nasser Hussain, who I grew up watching when I went to the cricket, the idea that those people aren't English, is an alien concept to me.
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people → ask → me
'I would respectfully disagree with people, who make the opposite argument.'
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who → disagree → argument
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