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More or Less: Behind the Stats

Fact-checking Boris Johnson

More or Less: Behind the Stats

BBC

Business, Mathematics, Science, News Commentary, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Giant bombs, a war hero and the foreign secretary's stats.

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0:00.0

Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

0:04.6

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

0:08.4

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable

0:14.3

experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

0:20.4

makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

0:24.6

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

0:29.7

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

This is the BBC.

0:40.0

Thanks for downloading the longer Radio 4 edition of more or less.

0:44.0

First broadcast on Friday the 28th of April.

0:49.0

Hello and welcome to more or less,

0:51.0

your weekly guide to the numbers all around us in the news, in life, and in politics,

0:56.8

some of which are pretty explosive.

1:00.0

We find out whether 3 million children are facing hunger in the holidays.

1:04.3

And we'll ask what's happening to spending in schools and what different political parties

1:08.7

plan to do about it.

1:10.5

But first, let's look at the big election interview of the week, the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appearing on the today program with John Humphreys.

1:18.0

It was a Clash of the Titans, Bobby Fisher versus Boris Spasky, except with no chess and a lot more shouting and interrupting.

1:26.1

The first topic was the notorious referendum claim that the UK sends the EU 350 million pounds a week that could be being spent on the National

1:35.7

Health Service. If you're talking about the 350 million that was on the side of

1:40.7

the bus that was going to go to the NHS

1:43.4

instead let me let me go back over it mr. Johnson went on to explain the

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