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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Will Conservative policies raise mortgages by £4800, as Labour claim? Are primary school kids in England the best readers in the (western) world, as the Conservatives claim? Are there more potholes in the UK than craters on the moon?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford Reporter: Kate Lamble Producers: Nathan Gower, Simon Tullet Beth Ashmead-Latham and Debbie Richford Production coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon
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0:44.4 | and the euros this summer and I'm Tim Harford. This week we examine a scary |
0:49.2 | number about mortgage costs that's been used by labor to attack the Conservatives. |
0:54.0 | We try to make sense of the Green Party's plans for spending on home insulation, |
0:58.6 | which is no easy task. |
1:00.6 | Nigel Farage has been making claims about exports. It seems he's been too busy to listen to the first program in this series. |
1:08.0 | Once more into the breach. The Conservatives are proud to claim that English primary school |
1:15.1 | children are some of the best readers in the world. Are they and how would we |
1:19.1 | know? Kirstie Walk tells us that a fifth of the population of Scotland is currently soaking up the football atmosphere in Germany. |
1:27.0 | We're going to go to VAR on that one. |
1:29.0 | And as a final flourish, Labour tell us there are more potholes in the UK than craters on the moon? |
1:36.0 | Goodness me. How long is this election going on for? First, much of the debate this campaign has centered on taxation and spending, but pledges |
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