JULY'S I.C.s - ANITA ANAND

Throughout the course of July's editions of 'The Daily Politics', Anita Anand interviewed 15 politicians.

Here are her Interruption Coefficients, in descending order of toughness:

Glenn Tingle, UKIP (14/7) - 2.8

Grant Shapps, Conservative (1/7)- 2

Gerald Howarth, Conservative (13/7) - 1.4

Roy Hattersley, Labour (3/7)- 1

Chris Ostrowski, Labour (14/7) - 0.9

Chloe Smith, Conservative (14/7)- 0.7

April Pond, Lib Dem (14/7) - 0

John Hutton, Labour (15/7) - 0

Lindsay Hoyle, Labour (13/7) - 0

Rupert Read, Green (14/7) - 0

Ming Campbell, Lib Dem (15/7) - 0

Tessa Jowell, Labour (8/7) - 0

David Davis, Conservative (15/7) - 0

Danny Alexander, Lib Dem (1/7) - 0

Alex Salmond, SNP (8/7) - 0

Number of interviewees from each political party:

Labour - 5

Conservatives -4

Lib Dems - 3

UKIP - 1

Greens - 1

SNP - 1

Average number of interruptions for each political party:

UKIP - 2.8

Conservatives - 1

Labour 0.5

Lib Dems - 0

Greens - 0

SNP - 0

We can now compare this with Anita's performance in June, when her two highest I.C.s were also scored against politicians to the right of centre (Michael Gove, 1.2 & Louise Bagshawe 1, both Conservatives) and where her average number of interruptions per party were 1.1 for the Conservatives, 0.8 for the SNP and 0.4 for Labour.

Conclusions

Anita Anand's stats strongly suggest persistent bias towards the Left, and against the Right. Please click on the label for Anita Anand to find out how she achieved such a high score against poor Glenn Tingle of UKIP, and such a low score against the Greens and the Lib Dems.