Bonus episode - The Model Polling Method
Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips
Sky News
4.0 • 156 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bruce the Butterfly here. |
| 0:02.6 | And I'm really high up. |
| 0:04.9 | You see, Scottish Power has just been ranked top large energy supplier in the UK for customer service by citizens' advice. |
| 0:12.0 | We're reaching new heights of excellence. |
| 0:14.0 | Higher than any butterfly's been, that's for sure. |
| 0:16.5 | It takes a huge effort to get all the way up here. |
| 0:18.9 | There's a whole team of people working their socks off |
| 0:20.9 | to reduce call waiting times, |
| 0:22.5 | improve email response times, and handle complaints quicker. |
| 0:25.8 | But at Scottish power, we're not standing still. |
| 0:28.2 | We're going to keep setting standards that are higher |
| 0:30.5 | and higher and higher! |
| 0:33.4 | For details, go to citizensadvice.org.uk. |
| 0:36.0 | Large suppliers include those with a market share of at least 5% in either gas or electricity. |
| 0:47.7 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of the All-Out Politics podcast. I'm Harry Carr. |
| 0:52.3 | Today I'll be talking to Ben Lauderdale, Associate Professor |
| 0:55.2 | in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, |
| 0:59.3 | and the man behind UGov's MRP model, which successfully predicted the hung parliament in the |
| 1:03.7 | 2017 general election. Polsters and public opinion experts have taken a lot of flack over the last |
| 1:09.2 | few years, some failure and some less so. For Ben, the 2017 general election was a triumph against the odds. When UGov's model |
| 1:16.1 | suggested the Conservatives could fail to win a majority, Conservative advisor and former |
| 1:20.3 | staffer for President Obama, Jim Messina tweeted that he spent the day laughing at yet another |
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