Nigel Farage
16claims assessed
Supported5False0Misleading8Unresolved3
Open Nigel Farage claim breakdown ↓Presidential Integrity Quotient methodologyMatched 100-day public records
Farage vs. Binface
The politician and the satirist.
The same 100-day window.
A claim-level comparison of the 100 days leading through the Clacton by-election on 13 August 2026. Satire, jokes, opinions, fictional biography and policy promises without a testable factual premise are excluded.
Independent research is complete for the fixed 6 May–13 August 2026 comparison window. The official Clacton result records Nigel Farage elected with 22,239 votes, Count Binface second with 9,455 votes, and 44.37% turnout. The window is now closed; later changes require credible retrospective evidence that materially changes an assessment. Both sides cover the same fixed Clacton campaign window. Every calendar day remains accounted for, with consecutive no-record days compressed into dated ranges; the small and unequal claim counts make the percentages descriptive rather than broadly representative.
Matched window
Two records, one date range
6 May 2026–13 August 2026 · exactly 100 inclusive calendar days
Count Binface
8claims assessed
Supported6False1Misleading1Unresolved0
Open Count Binface claim breakdown ↓Head to head
PRIQ score comparison
Hover or focus a score to see the verdict counts behind it. Unequal claim totals sharply limit direct inference.
On the left side, a populist politician with flexible morals
On the right side, a popular garbage bin with class and style
| Score | Nigel Farage | Count Binface |
|---|---|---|
| IntegrityHigher is better | 31.3% | 75.0% |
| VeracityHigher is better | 50.0% | 75.0% |
| EvasivenessLower is better | 50.0% | 12.5% |
| EntropyLower is better | 68.8% | 12.5% |
Claims breakdown
Both verdict distributions
The Farage and Binface counts and shares are shown side by side before their complete dated records.
| Verdict | Nigel Farage | Farage share | Count Binface | Binface share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported | 5 | 31.3% | 6 | 75.0% |
| False | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 12.5% |
| Misleading | 8 | 50.0% | 1 | 12.5% |
| Unresolved | 3 | 18.8% | 0 | 0.0% |
Nigel Farage audit
Nigel Farage
6 May 2026–13 August 2026 · exactly 100 calendar days. Consecutive no-record days are grouped into dated ranges.
13public records reviewed
16claims assessed
13recorded days located
Days 1–5No qualifying public records located
Day 61 record · 2 claims
Records reviewed
Article attributed to Nigel FarageNow we have to show that, when you vote Reform, you get real change ↗
Election-result assertions were checked against reported final results; political conclusions and predictions were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
Final-result reporting records 1,451 gains and majority control of 14 councils, matching the rounded claim.
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- Nigel Farage
- Attribution
- Post-election article, 11 May 2026 ↗
The election returned 34 Reform members and displaced Labour as Wales's governing party after the devolution-era period of Labour-led government.
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- Nigel Farage
- Attribution
- Post-election article, 11 May 2026 ↗
Days 7–22No qualifying public records located
Day 231 record · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Article attributed to Nigel FarageReform UK is the real party for workers ↗
The economic premise was assessed separately from the policy argument and campaign positioning.
Attributable claims assessed
Migration can suppress wages in some exposed occupations, but the categorical national-growth claim omits its contribution to labour supply, tax receipts and aggregate output. The size and direction of per-person effects depend on migrants' skills, earnings, age and public-service use rather than migration alone.
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- Nigel Farage
Days 24–43No qualifying public records located
Day 441 record · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Attributed interview summaryWe have 10 years to save Brexit — and Britain ↗
Claims about EU accession rules were retained; predictions and claims about opponents' intentions were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
EU accession rules require new members to commit to economic and monetary union and eventual euro adoption unless a negotiated opt-out is obtained; Denmark is the existing treaty exception. The claim describes the default accession obligation, not a fixed adoption date.
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- Nigel Farage
Days 45–48No qualifying public records located
Day 491 record · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Attributed broadcast interview summaryBrexit was an earthquake in British politics ↗
Specific election-result descriptions were assessed; slogans, counterfactuals and predictions were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
Reform made major gains and Labour suffered severe losses in those areas, but 'wiped out' overstates a mixed set of council and devolved-election results: Labour retained representatives and Reform did not take every contested seat or authority across the named regions.
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- Nigel Farage
Day 501 record · 2 claims
Records reviewed
Attributed public video statementDEI has thrown meritocracy out the window ↗
Two statistical education claims were retained; broader value judgments and causal rhetoric were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
Official attainment gaps do show persistently poor results for White British boys eligible for free school meals, but 'white working-class boys' is not a single official category and the lowest group varies by measure, age, geography and disadvantage definition. The statement turns a narrower documented disparity into an absolute system-wide ranking.
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- Nigel Farage
Oxford publishes admissions and grade-profile data, including by background, but the located public tables do not establish this specific four-to-one comparison among offer-holders who missed their grades. Broader offer-rate data cannot validate the narrower claim.
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- Nigel Farage
Days 51–62No qualifying public records located
Day 631 record · 0 claims
Records reviewed
Public statement reported by EuronewsClacton resignation and by-election announcement ↗
The announcement was reviewed for specific factual assertions; campaign framing and predictions were excluded.
The located record was reviewed and produced zero sufficiently specific attributable factual claims for assessment.
Day 641 record · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Article attributed to Nigel FarageA statement on my future ↗
Specific polling, membership and economic assertions were reviewed. The polling-streak and party-membership claims remain evidence gaps because no complete independently maintained series was located.
Attributable claims assessed
The statement does not identify a confidence index, and contemporaneous measures did not show a common 16-year low. The Institute of Directors recorded exceptionally weak confidence, while June readings from ICAEW and Lloyds described materially different levels and time comparisons for different business populations.
- Speaker
- Nigel Farage
Days 65–76No qualifying public records located
Day 771 record · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Reform UK article attributed to Nigel FarageThere must be a general election now ↗
The attributed article was reviewed; opinion, rhetoric and claims about opponents' motives were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
Burnham was directly elected as Makerfield's MP and, like other prime ministers, was not separately elected to the premiership by a nationwide ballot. Describing him simply as unelected omits that parliamentary basis, while the absence of a general-election mandate is a political criticism rather than evidence that he held no democratic mandate at all.
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- Nigel Farage
Days 78–91No qualifying public records located
Day 921 record · 4 claims
Records reviewed
Article attributed to Nigel FarageReform will end the invasion of Britain once and for all ↗
Specific descriptions of named criminal cases were checked independently. Policy promises, predictions and the article's broader migration framing were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
His Brighton rape conviction is independently established. Prosecutors also told the court that he had been convicted of murder in Egypt and that evading that sentence formed the basis of his asylum claim, but the defence contested the foreign conviction and no independent Egyptian court record was located.
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- Nigel Farage
Court reporting records that Abdulrahimzai was convicted in his absence of two murders in Serbia, was placed in foster care after presenting himself as a child in the UK, and received a life sentence for murdering Thomas Roberts.
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- Nigel Farage
Majdi's conviction for raping a 14-year-old and his claim to be an unaccompanied Syrian minor are documented. The located record says he claimed his papers were lost at sea; it does not independently establish that he deliberately discarded them.
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- Nigel Farage
Court reporting records that Khan live-streamed his small-boat crossing, was convicted of making a threat to kill Farage, and received a five-year prison sentence.
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- Nigel Farage
Days 93–96No qualifying public records located
Day 971 record · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Attributed press-conference reportOnly Reform will keep criminals behind bars ↗
The specific population-and-prison-capacity comparison was checked against official series. Policy promises, projections and broader law-and-order rhetoric were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
The comparison is broadly right when 455 is treated as the net change in operational capacity: official figures put UK population growth from mid-2010 to mid-2024 at about 6.5 million and the prison estate's net capacity increase from May 2010 to July 2024 at 455 places. But it is misleading to call 455 the number built: the Ministry of Justice separately estimated 13,009 places were built or created from 2010 to 2023 while about 12,500 places were closed or reconfigured.
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- Nigel Farage
Day 981 record · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Attributed reportingAP review of the Clacton contest and Farage's financial-interest explanation ↗
The report preserves Farage's explanation of the gift and the unresolved parliamentary inquiry; no verdict is inferred from the allegation alone.
Attributable claims assessed
The House rules require new MPs to register benefits received in the preceding 12 months when they are related to parliamentary or political activities, while genuinely personal gifts may be excluded. The available public record does not yet establish which side of that boundary the payment falls on, and the parliamentary inquiry remained open when this assessment was made.
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- Nigel Farage
Day 991 record · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Attributed public statementBritish communities have had enough of illegal immigrants in their areas ↗
Farage's description of the prime minister's stated asylum-dispersal position was checked against the reported words and official asylum-entry data. Hyperbole, policy promises and broader rhetoric were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
Burnham said all parts of the country should play a part in the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers; he did not describe every person covered by that policy as an illegal migrant. Home Office data also shows that asylum seekers reach the UK through mixed routes, including prior lawful entry, so the substituted label materially broadens and distorts his statement.
- Speaker
- Nigel Farage
Day 1001 record · 0 claims
Records reviewed
Official election resultClacton by-election result ↗
The official result records Farage elected with 22,239 votes, Count Binface second with 9,455, and 44.37% turnout. It is an election record, not a candidate assertion.
The located record was reviewed and produced zero sufficiently specific attributable factual claims for assessment.
Count Binface audit
Count Binface
6 May 2026–13 August 2026 · exactly 100 calendar days. Consecutive no-record days are grouped into dated ranges.
7public records reviewed
8claims assessed
6recorded days located
Days 1–43No qualifying public records located
Day 441 record · 0 claims
Records reviewed
Official election resultMakerfield by-election result ↗
The official result was reviewed as context for later campaign claims; it is not itself treated as a candidate assertion.
The located record was reviewed and produced zero sufficiently specific attributable factual claims for assessment.
Days 45–63No qualifying public records located
Day 641 record · 2 claims
Records reviewed
Full broadcast interviewBBC News full interview with Count Binface ↗
The full interview was reviewed; literal election-record and by-election-cost claims were separated from jokes, fictional biography, predictions and policy pledges. The prediction that another election would occur was excluded from assessment.
Attributable claims assessed
The official result lists 14 candidates and places Count Binface seventh with 95 votes.
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- Count Binface
The government reported that the mean cost of UK parliamentary by-elections from 2021 to 2025 was about £343,768 including candidate mailing, while the statutory maximum for returning-officer services and expenses in Clacton was £237,422 before candidate-mailing costs. With no settled 2026 expenditure account, £380,000 was neither a fixed cost nor the published Clacton estimate.
- Speaker
- Count Binface
Days 65–84No qualifying public records located
Day 852 records · 1 claim
Records reviewed
Attributed interviewAssociated Press interview with Count Binface ↗
The interview was reviewed; satire, fictional biography, slogans and non-testable promises were excluded.
Full broadcast interviewCNN full interview with Count Binface ↗
The full interview was reviewed; the literal candidate-count and parliamentary-election-record assertion was retained, while satire, predictions, opinions and promises were excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
Tendring District Council confirmed that 34 candidates were standing and described the field as a record for a UK parliamentary election; the official UK Parliament result also lists a total of 34 candidates.
- Speaker
- Count Binface
Days 86–96No qualifying public records located
Day 971 record · 0 claims
Records reviewed
Attributed campaign reviewClacton manifesto highlights ↗
The manifesto summary was reviewed; policy pledges without a factual premise were excluded.
The located record was reviewed and produced zero sufficiently specific attributable factual claims for assessment.
Day 98No qualifying public record located
Day 991 record · 5 claims
Records reviewed
Official campaign websiteCount Binface campaign biography and election record ↗
Only checkable claims about real election results were retained; the fictional character biography was excluded.
Attributable claims assessed
The official result records 24,775 first preferences; the stated total corresponds to first and second preferences attributed to Binface under the supplementary-vote count.
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- Count Binface
The official parliamentary result records 190 votes for Count Binface.
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- Count Binface
The 2023 total was about 275% of the 2019 total, but the increase was 121 votes: approximately 175%, not 275%.
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- Count Binface
The official declaration records 24,260 votes for Count Binface and 20,519 for Britain First candidate Nick Scanlon.
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- Count Binface
The official UK Parliament constituency result records 308 votes for Count Binface.
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- Count Binface
Day 1001 record · 0 claims
Records reviewed
Official election resultClacton by-election result ↗
The official result records Farage elected with 22,239 votes, Count Binface second with 9,455, and 44.37% turnout. It is an election record, not a candidate assertion.
The located record was reviewed and produced zero sufficiently specific attributable factual claims for assessment.
PRIQ measures the mix of verdicts among specific attributable factual claims located and assessed. It is not an approval rating or proof of knowledge or intent. Count Binface’s satirical character biography, jokes and non-testable promises are excluded rather than being misclassified as falsehoods.