Post-Election Special
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The results of the general election are in - but what do they mean? Did more young people vote than expected? Have we now got a more diverse parliament? How many extra votes would Jeremy Corbyn have needed to become Prime Minister - these are just some of the claims and questions that have been floating around on social media and in the press. Tim Harford and the team are going to analyse, add context and try and find answers.
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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. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello and welcome to this special edition of More or Less. |
| 0:43.4 | To those who may not have heard our program before, we are the geeks who keep an eye on the |
| 0:47.5 | numbers and statistics you see on the news, banded around by politicians and experts and well just about anybody. |
| 0:54.7 | Today our task is clear to shed some light on the general election. |
| 0:59.9 | Many listeners have got in touch to ask questions. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, so many questions. |
| 1:04.9 | So on today's special program, |
| 1:07.4 | we're going to look at the details of this election |
| 1:10.0 | and get to the bottom of what's going on. |
| 1:12.4 | Is it true, for example, that just 2,000 more votes |
| 1:16.2 | would have put Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street? A viral video accuses the Conservatives of |
| 1:21.6 | lying about crime statistics, but is the video itself untrue? |
| 1:26.0 | And boundary changes are scheduled to come in. |
| 1:29.0 | Would those changes have made a difference if they had applied this time around. But first, by Friday lunchtime |
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