Rishi Sunak's Covid inquiry claims, fact-checked

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

18% Positive

  •   Conservative
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"Mr Sunak said that on 19 March 2020 he had received advice about a very significant move in gilt rates, which mean the cost of government borrowing had trebled in around a week."
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-6% Liberal
"But at the inquiry he said he had not been referring to discussions happening in government, but about the communication strategy."
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-8% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Mr Sunak said that on 19 March 2020 he had received advice about a "very significant move" in gilt rates, which mean the cost of government borrowing had trebled in around a week.
46% : But at the inquiry he said he had not been referring to discussions happening in government, but about the communication strategy.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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