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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Can we be sure that thousands of millionaires are leaving the UK? How much do asylum seekers cost the state? Who will win a geeky bet on private school pupil numbers? What does a string quartet teach us about the woes of the National Health Service?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Caroline Bayley, Natasha Fernandes and Bethan Ashmead-Latham Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: Sarah Hockley Editor: Richard Vadon
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0:44.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less, your guide to the numbers in the news and all around us. |
0:48.8 | I'm Tim Harford. |
0:50.9 | We're told that 9,500 millionaires will leave the country this year because of |
0:56.4 | labour's tax policies, which raises the question. How would anyone go about |
1:01.5 | figuring that out? |
1:03.4 | Our listeners told us we missed the point with last week's fact check about the benefits paid to asylum seekers. |
1:09.3 | Well, perhaps we'll take aim again this time. We don't generally endorse gambling, but if it's two |
1:15.4 | policy wonks making a bet about who's right, we're here all day for that. And what does a string |
1:21.0 | quartet teach us about the woes of the National Health Service? |
1:27.0 | Are millionaires leaving the UK in droves because they're terrified of the Labour government. |
1:33.0 | That is what you might think from recent newspaper headlines. |
1:37.0 | Rich ready to leave UK over budget tax threats. |
1:41.0 | Millionaires look to flee the UK in their droves, with record number of Britons predicted to leave |
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