Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Has trade with the EU increased since Britain left the European Union? Tim Harford and the team look at a claim suggesting just that. There’s a row over the renaming of a street in North London previously called Black Boy Lane – but how much has it really all cost? Also are there more pensioners in “millionaire households” than pensioners in poverty. And mathematician Hannah Fry talks about a new study suggesting cases of ovarian cancer can be detected by looking at spending on loyalty cards.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello and welcome to More or Less, your scientific calculator in a world full of hard sums.
0:11.1	This week we'll ask whether the typical pensioner is swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck.
0:16.3	Can your store loyalty card give you a life-saving early warning of cancer?
0:21.6	And how much did it really cost to rename Black Boy Lane in North London?
0:27.0	But first, the 31st of January was the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU.
0:34.0	So what's happened to the UK's international trade?
0:37.4	According to a tweet from David Baneman, formerly a Conservative MP, things are going well.
0:43.4	Trade has actually increased since Brexit.
0:46.2	Not what Remainers would have us believe.
0:48.6	These are official ONS statistics.
0:51.6	Don't let them get away with their misleading propaganda.
0:54.9	The tweet came with a photo of a clipping from the Spectator magazine,
0:58.8	which detailed the UK's import and export figures,
1:02.2	comparing September 2019, a few months before Brexit, with September 2022, three years later.
1:10.2	The numbers show that the cash value of the UK's imports has increased over that period.
1:15.7	And the UK's exports to the EU have also increased,
1:19.2	and seemingly by quite a lot, rising from being worth £14.3 billion in September 2019
1:26.4	to £16.8 billion in September 2022, a 17% increase.
1:33.0	And a footnote to these figures says,
1:35.5	Source ONS. So it looks pretty reliable.
1:39.9	Well, we've been looking into it, and Charlotte McDonnell is here in the studio with me.
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