👤 Brian Wheeler

7 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
7
2026-09-22 – 2026-10-28
Claims per article
30
208 extracted in total
Hedged claims
12%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,829
characters
Writes for BBC News.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
86%
Technology
14%
Most-tagged topics
LabourConservativeReform UKToryBBCBirminghamBritainBritish

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
3 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.17 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-28 · BBC News · Politics
Healey unveils £100 for energy bills and bank tax in first Budget
7 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-06 · BBC News · Politics
Why Tories are talking about winning the next election
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-04 · BBC News · Politics
I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
5 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-09-27 · BBC News · Politics
Healey to promise 'new age of industrialisation' for UK in conference speech
4 outlets covered this event
2026-09-22 · BBC News · Politics
Davey promises tax cuts for millions if UK rejoins EU single market
4 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-22 · BBC News · Politics
Who is Chancellor John Healey? Labour veteran who quit as defence secretary
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-22 · BBC News
Davey promises tax cuts for millions if UK rejoins EU single market
🔮 - Published The Liberal Democrats will fight the next general election on a promise to cut taxes for millions of workers, Sir Ed Davey has said in a speech to his party conference. assertive
2026-09-27 · BBC News
Healey to promise 'new age of industrialisation' for UK in conference speech
🔮 - Published John Healey will promise "a new age of industrialisation" for the UK, when he delivers his first Labour conference speech as chancellor on Monday. assertive
2026-09-28 · BBC News
UK needs plan in case of 'unprecedented' AI job losses, says minister
🔮 Carsten Jung, of the IPPR think tank, said: "In a worst case scenario you could have about 8 million jobs being negatively affected by this." mixed
2026-10-04 · BBC News
I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
🔮 The essay says the "next Conservative government will have one central principle: business, not government, creates growth". assertive
2026-10-06 · BBC News
Why Tories are talking about winning the next election
🔮 If you spend enough time drinking and socialising with like-minded people anything can seem possible. That could be one explanation for the upbeat mood of this year's Conservative gathering in Birmingham. assertive
2026-10-28 · BBC News
Who is Chancellor John Healey? Labour veteran who quit as defence secretary
🔮 It's not that the 66-year-old lacked experience or credibility - just that he had not been seen as a likely contender, with all the speculation about who would replace Rachel Reeves centring on more high-profile figures. Healey had flown under the radar since his explosive resignation as Sir Keir Starmer's defence secretary in June this year. assertive
2026-10-28 · BBC News
Healey unveils £100 for energy bills and bank tax in first Budget
🔮 - Published Millions of households will get £100 to help with soaring energy bills to be paid for by a tax on bank profits, John Healey has announced in his first Budget. assertive
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