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🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Luke Jones sits in for Matt Chorley and he speaks to the UK's National Statistician Professor Sir Ian Diamond on why data is key. Plus Robert Crampton and Rosamund Urwin on vaccine passports and female billionaires. And the incredible life of Dr Ike McKinnon, the former Detroit Police chief on the Chauvin trial.
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| 1:42.4 | Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics podcast. I'm sorry, yes, maturly is still on holiday. |
| 1:48.0 | He's at a special home purposely built for resting broadcasters. It's K-Billy's garden, I think. |
| 1:53.9 | I'm Luke Jones sitting in all week. Today we have got the incredible story of one Black |
| 1:59.8 | police officer, police chief and how he tried to stamp out racism in his force in the US, |
| 2:05.4 | what his thoughts are on the Chauvin trial. Also, we'll hear from the man in charge of statistics |
| 2:10.6 | in the UK, Sir Ian Diamond, who runs the Office for National Statistics on the pandemic, |
| 2:17.1 | on the census and also on questions about sex and race around the country as well. |
| 2:23.2 | First though, a new pairing of columnist Rosman Irwin and Robert Crampton, who we're calling |
| 2:28.3 | Cramp-Win. |
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