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Hello and welcome to more or less, sounding the claxon of statistical truth in the face of a barrage of misinformation.

This week, how many people are dying as they wait for delayed ambulances,

maybe not as many as the Liberal Democrats imply?

We're told that the COVID inquiry will be scrutinising the ET out to help out program,

so we'll ask whether there's any evidence that subsidising people to gather together in pubs and restaurants

helped spark a new wave of infections in 2020, and it is a truth universally acknowledged

that a single woman cannot afford to rent a flat, but does the evidence support that belief?

Also, who will tell us the truth about goats, Jonathan Agnew or Phil Tuffnell?

But first, last series we couldn't take our eyes off the NHS, which was struggling on several fronts.

We took a close look at ambulance response times.

Ambulance services had been consistently missing their response targets for years,

but during the winter things went from bad to worse to awful.

No surprise then that politicians took an interest too.

In April, loyal listener Jeremy Marchand noticed a claim made on Twitter by the Liberal Democrats.

120 people died per day last year while waiting for an ambulance to arrive.

Jeremy asked us, can this possibly be true?

Well, our reporter Nathan Gower has been looking into this for a cell of Nathan.

Hi Tim. Nathan, 120 people a day, it sounds really bad.

Yes, it does sound bad. This claim comes from a piece of research.

The Lib Dems published in late April and all their claims relate to ambulance services in England.

They sent freedom of information requests to the 10 different ambulance trusts in England,

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