Financial Times Article Rating

'We have the momentum': Reform's pitch to disaffected Scottish voters

Jan 12, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    18% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    18% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    55% Positive

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

23% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "Section him," heckled a woman sporting a red Donald Trump "Make America Great Again" campaign cap at a mention of Miliband, the man who is leading the Labour government's plans to expand renewable energy to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030.
51% : The staunchly unionist party hopes to become the natural home for Scottish Conservatives and peel away voters from Labour, and even the SNP, by pledging to ditch renewable energy in favour of more oil and gas exploration and onshore shale fracking.
46% : The former SNP first minister in a 2020 parliamentary speech characterised the dominance of white people in senior positions as structural racism.
45% : "In 2013, Farage -- then leader of the pro-Brexit UK Independence party -- had to hide in an Edinburgh pub to avoid protesting students and anti-racism and pro-independence campaigners.
41% : The UK's ageing North Sea oil and gas basin employs up to 90,000 people in north-east Scotland, many of whom feel their jobs are under threat as the government prioritises renewable energy.

*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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