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🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Were there any suspicious claims in the election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer?
Do the claims in Reform UK’s policy documents on excess deaths and climate change make sense?
Can the Conservatives and Labour raise £6bn a year by cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion?
And do all the humans on earth weigh more than all of the ants?
Presenter: Tim Harford Reporters: Kate Lamble and Nathan Gower Producer: Beth Ashmead-Latham Series producer: Tom Colls Production coordinator: Brenda Brown Editor: Richard Vadon
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0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less, your statistical guide to life, liberty and the pursuit of a majority in the House of Commons. I'm Tim Harford. It's week two of the election |
0:46.1 | and we're ramping up our coverage. We've kissed a baby, bought some placards and made a new pledge to |
0:51.5 | reduce the bad jokes in the program by 10% |
0:54.0 | a pledge we will immediately find some we easily excuse to break. |
0:58.0 | This week we'll examine a couple of curious claims in a contract |
1:02.0 | namely Reform UK's self-described contract with Britain. |
1:06.7 | A loyal listener wants to know whether 1,000 people is really enough for a solid opinion poll. |
1:12.0 | And isn't it true that polling companies have had some shockers recently? |
1:16.4 | The two biggest parties are each promising to raise £6 billion a year by cracking down on |
1:21.5 | tax avoidance and tax evasion. |
1:24.0 | We'll ask why anyone should take that number seriously. |
1:27.4 | And for a break from politics, our long-running beef with Springwatch continues. This time we're on the lookout for 10 or 20 quadrillion ants. |
1:38.1 | But before we get into any of that good stuff, more or less veteran Kate Lamble watched the Tuesday night debate between Rishi |
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