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🗓️ 22 September 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:03.8 | Hello and welcome to more of Less, |
0:06.1 | we're your ever-ready guide to the numbers all around us in the news and in life. |
0:10.8 | This week, Scottish students, Spanish vets, |
0:13.7 | and the price of a pint in 1887. |
0:16.3 | I did look that up, two and a half old pence, yes. |
0:19.2 | But we start with Boris Johnson. |
0:21.7 | Oh, do we have to really? |
0:24.1 | Well, he is the foreign secretary and he's just been slapped down by the chairman |
0:28.4 | of the UK Statistics Authority. |
0:30.0 | And we're of the £350 million a week claim. |
0:33.5 | We've, I mean, Charlotte, we've proved that this is on at least twice. |
0:37.1 | Yeah, I know. |
0:37.7 | But this is the third time the statistics authority has got involved with this claim. |
0:42.2 | Even Nigel Farage distanced himself from it the morning after the referendum. |
0:46.0 | We thought everyone had stopped using it. |
0:48.8 | But last weekend, Mr Johnson wrote the following. |
0:52.8 | Once we've settled our accounts, |
0:54.6 | we will take back control of roughly £350 million per week. |
1:00.0 | But the £350 million a week figure ignores the rebates that we get back from the EU. |
1:06.4 | So we could take back control of £350 million a week |
1:11.0 | if the Germans, the French, the Dutch and other net payers to the EU |
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