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Hello and welcome to more or less, your weekly guide to the numbers all around us in the

news in life and yet again in politics.

This week we'll be asking what we can learn from the opinion polls which disagree with each other

and which have often been wrong in the past. We'll look at a study by the Guardian of

sexual harassment on campus and Kyle Evans returns to answer that age-old question. Out of Kate Bush, Bob

Dylan and George Harrison, who's the best at maths? 3.14. But first, 2.14.59.

But first, Theresa May has called a snap general election, so you can be sure that more or less will be here keeping an eye on the campaigns as they get going.

One of the first things that caught our attention was something that the Labour leader

Jeremy Corbyn said in response to the announcement of the election.

He said that the government has delivered falling living standards.

This is something we've seen him say before.

We asked the Labour Party to send us the source for this claim and they sent us data on wages instead.

Median full-time wages have indeed been lack-loster for years

and after inflation they're well below the levels of 2008

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