JULY'S I.C.s - CAROLYN QUINN

Busy Carolyn Quinn visits an ardent Radio 4 listener's ears with considerable regularity. As a result, this listener feels he knows her and knows her to be biased. Do the I.C.s confirm this feeling or is this listener going to have to eat his hat?

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Here are the July interruption coefficients for Carolyn Quinn:

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Bill Rammell, Labour (7/7) - 1.6

John Fitter, Conservative (10/7) - 1.6

Nick Clegg, Lib Dem (19/7) - 1.1

Maria Eagle, Labour (6/7) -1.0

Mark Field, Conservative (5/7) - 1.0

George Osborne, Conservative (8/7) - 0.9

John McDonnell, Labour (20/7) - 0.9

Mark Field, Conservative (19/7) - 0.8

Caroline Lucas, Green (5/7) -0.5

Liam Fox, Conservative (7/7) - 0.4

Damien Green, Conservative (31/7) - 0.4

Tom Harris, Labour (5/7) - 0.3

Douglas Alexander, Labour (6/7) - 0.3

Keith Simpson, Conservative (26/7) - 0.3

Lord Bach, Labour (28/7) - 0.2

Bob Ainsworth, Labour (10/7) - 0.2

Louise Ellman, Labour (2/7) - 0

Joanne McCartney, Labour (9/7) - 0

Tom Watson, Labour (5/7) - 0

Charles Kennedy, Lib Dem (25/7) - 0

Andrew Mitchell, Conservative (6/7) - 0

Andrew McKinley, Labour (31/7) - 0

Lord Phillips, Lib Dem (18/7) - 0

Tom Harris, Labour (19/7) - 0

Denis MacShane, Labour (26/7) - 0

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Average number of interruptions per political party:

Conservatives - 0.7

Labour - 0.4

Lib Dems - 0.4

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I have to confess that I though it would be more, but my hat isn't yet going to be eaten, as there is still statistically significant evidence of bias here, or at least a suggestion of it.

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That said my hat's survival is not helped by Carolyn's June averages - 0.9 for the Conservatives,

0.8 for Labour and 0.6 for the Lib Dems.

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My hat awaits the coming months with confidence.