Election Special 1/2

More or Less: Behind the Stats

BBC

Business, Mathematics, Science, News Commentary, News

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

50,000 nurses? 40 new hospitals? Big corporate tax rises? Childcare promises? Election pledges might sound good, but do they stand up to scrutiny? In the run up to the General Election on 12th December, Tim Harford takes his scalpel of truth to the inflamed appendix of misinformation. Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Neal Razzell

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.8	Hello and welcome to the more or less Christmas special
0:08.9	with me, Tim Halford.
0:14.7	Oh, OK, it's not really a Christmas special.
0:17.1	It is the first of a pair of election specials,
0:20.5	in which we help you to filter out the sound and fury
0:24.0	and understand the issues in front of us all as voters.
0:27.8	Zero, a fifth, three, four, ten,
0:31.8	twelve, thirty.
0:32.8	Twenty, twenty, two.
0:33.8	The candidates are bidding for your votes.
0:36.8	Three hundred and twenty-six.
0:37.8	Five hundred and six hundred.
0:39.8	A thousand, two thousand.
0:41.8	Throwing numbers back and forth like snowballs.
0:43.8	Fifty thousand, one million.
0:45.8	Twenty-two million.
0:46.8	Fifty million.
0:47.8	One billion, two billion.
0:48.8	Nine billion.
0:49.8	One hundred and thirty billion.
0:51.8	It all adds up to a big gift to those of us
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