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13 recorded statements, the most serious of them threatening. 3 tested claims: read plainly, 1 holds and 1 mixed and 1 fails; read at their widest, 1 mixed and 2 fails.

Statements. Nothing to check, so these carry a severity instead.

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What was said

In front of a crowd estimated at 60,000, he said he would stop Islam and that it was time for many Muslims to leave.

Who it targets

Muslims in Britain

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What was said

A conservative magazine described immigration to Europe as a flood putting Western civilization in mortal danger.

Who it targets

Immigrants to Europe, treated as one undifferentiated mass

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What was said

Britain First's leader called the King a Taliban arsehole for visiting a mosque.

Who it targets

Muslims, with the King as the hook

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What was said

He said his ambition is for Britain to have as many mosques as Saudi Arabia has churches.

Who it targets

Muslims in Britain, and their places of worship

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What was said

Millions must go, he wrote, and called it the kindest option.

Who it targets

Migrants to Western Europe, millions of them

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What was said

He called one man an inbred and said it's how all unwelcome guests on our island think.

Who it targets

People described as unwelcome guests on the island

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What was said

Another day, another invader, he wrote, in a template he ran three times that week.

Who it targets

Migrants to Britain, as a class

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What was said

A town looks Third World because it's been colonised by Third World immigrants, he wrote.

Who it targets

Immigrants described as Third World

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What was said

Another mohammed jailed, he wrote, using a first name as a word for Muslims.

Who it targets

Muslims, through a first name used as a category

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What was said

Farage called this week's arrivals an invasion and asked how many were Iranian terrorists.

Who it targets

People arriving across the Channel, as a group

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What was said

The owner of X told 7.5 million people that migrants to Britain are an invading army.

Who it targets

Migrants to Britain, described as an army

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What was said

A sitting MP said parts of Manchester had been vandalised and bastardised by the people living there.

Who it targets

People in Greater Manchester identified by where they came from

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What was said

The same MP listed Muslim-coded businesses, called them filthy, and said lawful residents have to go home.

Who it targets

Muslims, through the businesses coded as theirs

Claims we tested, and the roundups that collect them.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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UKInstitutional impartiality and professional regulation The claim

The timing and disclosure of the nursing regulator's suspension of Restore Britain's mayoral candidate shows it meant to damage the campaign.

The catch

Interim orders are published on the register as a matter of routine, and this one was.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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UKMedia legitimacy and political labelling The claim

An Economist interview shows the mainstream media applies the far-right label in bad faith, out of hostility rather than description.

The catch

The label has a documented basis for at least one of the organisations involved, which is the opposite of description-free.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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UKImmigration The claim

Reform UK says Andy Burnham intends to leave the border open, and his silence in week one proves it.

The catch

He kept the responsible minister in post and had voted weeks earlier for a bill tightening asylum enforcement.

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