OCTOBER'S I.C.s - INTRODUCTION & THE FULL LIST

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October has been a busy month for me with 318 interviews covered.
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It began with the close of the Labour conference and continued with the Conservative conference. Just as September saw a far higher proportion of Lib Dem interviews than usual, due to their conference, so October has seen a leap in coverage of the Tories. With that increased coverage has come bags more bias.
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As ever, I have covered every edition of:
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Today
The Daily Politics
The World At One
PM
The World Tonight
Newsnight
The Andrew Marr Show
Broadcasting House
The Politics Show
The World This Weekend
The Politics Show: Scotland
Dragon's Eye
The Record: Europe
Westminster Hour
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Every edition - with one exception. The Newsnight of 22/10/09 was never made available on the BBC i-Player.
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Just as a reminder - Interruption Coefficients (I.C.s) are calculated by dividing the number of interruptions by the length of the interview. The higher the I.C. the tougher the interview (as a rule). I.C.s of 0 have contained no interruptions! Interruptions are only classed as interruptions if they stop or significantly alter the speaker's flow. Muttered 'wells' and the like are classed as 'abortive interruption' and are not counted. Those that share an I.C., say of 0.8, are sub-ranked according to a hidden (inferior) measure called the Questions Coefficient, which is calculated by dividing thee number of questions by the length of the interview. The more questions there are, the likelier the interviewer is holding the reins in an interview. That means that everything is ranked where it should be!
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As usual I will begin with the full list (with apologies for the lack of punctuation!!):
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Andrew Neil 28/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 3.3
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Andrew Neil 06/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 3.1
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Andrew Neil 06/10 Andrew Lansley Conservative 2.9
Anita Anand 08/10 Alun Cairns Conservative 2.9
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Andrew Neil 27/10 Jeremy Hunt Conservative 2.8
Jo Coburn 09/10 Justine Greening Conservative 2.8
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Kirsty Wark 09/10 Greg Clark Conservative 2.7
Jeremy Paxman 20/10 Denis MacShane Labour 2.7
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Andrew Neil 13/10 Evan Harris Lib Dem 2.4
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Gavin Esler 15/10 Emily Thornberry Labour 2.3
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Andrew Neil 05/10 Boris Johnson Conservative 2.2
Andrew Neil 12/10 Stuart Bell Labour 2.2
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Jon Sopel 18/10 Lord Adonis Labour 2.1
Kirsty Wark 08/10 Jeremy Hunt Conservative 2.1
Andrew Marr 04/10 David Cameron Conservative 2.1
Andrew Neil 19/10 Hilary Benn Labour 2.1
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Andrew Neil 07/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 2
Jeremy Paxman 07/10 Phil Woolas Labour 2
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Carolyn Quinn 04/10 Douglas Carswell Conservative 1.9
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Andrew Marr 18/10 Liam Fox Conservative 1.8
Anita Anand 30/10 Mark Field Conservative 1.8
John Humphrys 03/10 Andrew Lansley Conservative 1.8
Glenn Campbell 11/10 Nicola Sturgeon SNP 1.8
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Jeremy Paxman 19/10 Peter Hain Labour 1.7
Anita Anand 14/10 John Hutton Labour 1.7
John Humphrys 22/10 Ken Clarke Conservative 1.7
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Andrew Neil 05/10 Dan Hannan Conservative 1.6
Andrew Neil 12/10 Lord Oakeshott Lib Dem 1.6
John Humphrys 09/10 Greg Clark Conservative 1.6
Jeremy Paxman 05/10 Boris Johnson Conservative 1.6
John Humphrys 13/10 Sir Patrick Cormack Conservative 1.6
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Anita Anand 02/10 Greg Clark Conservative 1.5
Kirsty Wark 26/10 Mark Francois Conservative 1.5
Martha Kearney 05/10 Boris Johnson Conservative 1.5
Jeremy Paxman 05/10 Theresa May Conservative 1.5
Andrew Neil 15/10 Mark Simmonds Conservative 1.5
Carolyn Quinn 05/10 Eric Pickles Conservative 1.5
Shirin Wheeler 11/10 Timothy Kirkhope Conservative 1.5
Shaun Ley 23/10 Alistair Darling Labour 1.5
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Andrew Neil 29/10 Nick Gibb Conservative 1.4
Jeremy Paxman 29/10 Jeremy Hunt Conservative 1.4
Glenn Campbell 11/10 Ruth Davidson Conservative 1.4
Jeremy Paxman 07/10 George Osborne Conservative 1.4
Andrew Neil 08/10 William Hague Conservative 1.4
Glenn Campbell 04/10 John Swinney SNP 1.4
Andrew Neil 21/10 Nick Herbert Conservative 1.4
Jim Naughtie 29/10 William Hague Conservative 1.4
Carolyn Quinn 17/10 Angus Robertson SNP 1.4
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Andrew Neil 07/10 Michael Gove Conservative 1.3
Andrew Neil 08/10 Theresa May Conservative 1.3
Jeremy Paxman 06/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 1.3
Glenn Campbell 11/10 Willie Bain Labour 1.3
Emily Maitlis 14/10 Bill Rammell Labour 1.3
Glenn Campbell 04/10 David Mundell Conservative 1.3
John Humphrys 24/10 George Osborne Conservative 1.3
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Jon Sopel 04/10 Nigel Farage UKIP 1.2
Ritula Shah 07/10 Phil Woolas Labour 1.2
Jim Naughtie 19/10 Barry Sheerman Labour 1.2
Jon Sopel 11/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 1.2
Shaun Ley 11/10 Gerry Kelly Sinn Fein 1.2
Anita Anand 28/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 1.2
Shaun Ley 08/10 Lord Young Labour 1.2
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Eddie Mair 07/10 Lord George Foulkes Labour 1.1
Eddie Mair 12/10 Nick Clegg Lib Dem 1.1
Anita Anand 20/10 Alan Duncan Conservative 1.1
Martha Kearney 29/10 Tony McNulty Labour 1.1
Carolyn Quinn 06/10 Ken Clarke Conservative 1.1
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Andrew Neil 12/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 1
Jeremy Paxman 12/10 Sir Stuart Bell Labour 1
Jeremy Paxman 12/10 Tony Wright Labour 1
Andrew Marr 18/10 Lord Myners Labour 1
Glenn Campbell 11/10 David Kerr SNP 1
Andrew Neil 01/10 Bill Rammell Labour 1
Carolyn Quinn 07/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 1
Eddie Mair 19/10 Ken Clarke Conservative 1
Andrew Neil 22/10 John Hutton Labour 1
Martha Kearney 13/10 Jack Straw Labour 1
Andrew Neil 15/10 Tony McNulty Labour 1
Ritula Shah 23/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 1
Ritula Shah 13/10 Sir George Young Conservative 1
Jim Naughtie 09/10 Harriet Harman Labour 1
Jeremy Paxman 21/10 Barbara Follett Labour 1
Kirsty Wark 09/10 Ed Miliband Labour 1
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John Humphrys 28/10 Roger Gale Conservative 0.9
Glenn Campbell 18/10 David Mundell Conservative 0.9
Martha Kearney 28/10 Lord Adonis Labour 0.9
Jo Coburn 09/10 Geoffrey Robinson Labour 0.9
Martha Kearney 06/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 0.9
Shaun Ley 12/10 Liam Byrne Labour 0.9
Andrew Neil 28/10 Peter Hain Labour 0.9
Jon Sopel 18/10 Nick Clegg Lib Dem 0.9
Martha Kearney 21/10 Peter Hain Labour 0.9
Anita Anand 28/10 Peter Hain Labour 0.9
Shaun Ley 09/10 Ed Miliband Labour 0.9
John Humphrys 14/10 Harriet Harman Conservative 0.9
Robin Lustig 20/10 Michael Fallon Conservative 0.9
Emily Maitlis 14/10 Caroline Lucas Green 0.9
Jeremy Paxman 29/10 Gary Titley Labour 0.9
Shirin Wheeler 11/10 Nigel Farage UKIP 0.9
Anita Anand 12/10 Dan Hannan Conservative 0.9
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Andrew Neil 01/10 Phil Woolas Labour 0.8
Anita Anand 08/10 Ruth Davidson Conservative 0.8
Martha Kearney 07/10 Michael Gove Conservative 0.8
Jo Coburn 23/10 James Gray Conservative 0.8
Jon Sopel 04/10 David Miliband Labour 0.8
Jo Coburn 23/10 Phil Woolas Labour 0.8
Martha Kearney 27/10 Bill Rammell Labour 0.8
Evan Davis 06/10 David Cameron Conservative 0.8
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Adrian Masters 11/10 Alun Cairns Conservative 0.7
Adrian Masters 11/10 Bethan Jenkins Plaid Cymru 0.7
Robin Lustig 14/10 John Walker BNP 0.7
Eddie Mair 07/10 Eric Joyce Labour 0.7
Jon Sopel 11/10 Hilary Benn Labour 0.7
Andrew Neil 19/10 John Mann Labour 0.7
Sarah Montague 28/10 Liam Fox Conservative 0.7
Eddie Mair 21/10 George Osborne Conservative 0.7
John Humphrys 28/10 Stuart Bell Labour 0.7
Anita Anand 02/10 Margaret Beckett Labour 0.7
Andrew Neil 29/10 Chris Huhne Lib Dem 0.7
Andrew Neil 08/10 George Osborne Conservative 0.7
Emily Maitlis 14/10 Zak Goldsmith Conservative 0.7
Carolyn Quinn 11/10 Tom Harris Labour 0.7
John Humphrys 01/10 Norman Lamb Lib Dem 0.7
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Jeremy Paxman 13/10 Sir George Young Conservative 0.6
Jeremy Paxman 07/10 Bob Stewart Conservative 0.6
Martha Kearney 21/10 David Gauke Conservative 0.6
Andrew Neil 13/10 Norman Baker Lib Dem 0.6
Glenn Campbell 11/10 Steven Purcell Labour 0.6
Martha Kearney 05/10 Theresa May Conservative 0.6
Jim Naughtie 17/10 Lord Goldsmith Labour 0.6
Anita Anand 16/10 Khalid Mahmood Labour 0.6
Jim Naughtie 19/10 Nick Herbert Conservative 0.6
Andrew Marr 11/10 Alan Johnson Labour 0.6
Glenn Campbell 11/10 Alistair Darling Labour 0.6
Carolyn Quinn 18/10 Pete Wishart SNP 0.6
Andrew Neil 21/10 Caroline Flint Labour 0.6
Anita Anand 21/10 Caroline Flint Labour 0.6
Evan Davis 12/10 Peter Mandelson Labour 0.6
Jon Sopel 25/10 Ken Clarke Conservative 0.6
Jon Sopel 04/10 Eric Pickles Conservative 0.6
John Humphrys 10/10 Bob Stewart Conservative 0.6
Kirsty Wark 26/10 Chris Bryant Labour 0.6
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Andrew Neil 05/10 David Cameron Conservative 0.5
Jo Coburn 15/10 Gerry Keating Lib Dem 0.5
Martha Kearney 15/10 Cathy Ashton Labour 0.5
Adrian Masters 25/10 Jeff Cuthbert Labour 0.5
Evan Davis 20/10 John McFall Labour 0.5
Jeremy Paxman 28/10 Shaun Woodward Labour 0.5
Emily Maitlis 16/10 David Miliband Labour 0.5
Anita Anand 21/10 Nick Herbert Conservative 0.5
Evan Davis 27/10 Bridget Prentice Labour 0.5
Sarah Montague 01/10 Bob Ainsworth Labour 0.5
Eddie Mair 15/10 Lord Drayton Labour 0.5
Martha Kearney 26/10 George Osborne Conservative 0.5
Eddie Mair 22/10 Margaret Hodge Labour 0.5
Eddie Mair 13/10 Richard Caborn Labour 0.5
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Shaun Ley 12/10 Albert Wharrad Labour 0.4
Anita Anand 30/10 Lord Desai Labour 0.4
Martha Kearney 19/10 Peter Kilfoyle Labour 0.4
Shaun Ley 11/10 Stuart Bell Labour 0.4
Shaun Ley 02/10 Mark Francois Conservative 0.4
Evan Davis 06/10 Lord Falconer Labour 0.4
Martha Kearney 27/10 Lindsay Hoyle Labour 0.4
Robin Lustig 28/10 Mike Hancock Lib Dem 0.4
Evan Davis 07/10 David Mundell Conservative 0.4
Sarah Montague 15/10 David Willetts Conservative 0.4
Glenn Campbell 18/10 John McFall Labour 0.4
Anita Anand 07/10 David Davis Conservative 0.4
Andrew Neil 14/10 John Hutton Labour 0.4
Martha Kearney 01/10 David Miliband Labour 0.4
Shaun Ley 08/10 Liam Fox Conservative 0.4
Carolyn Quinn 25/10 Paul Holmes Lib Dem 0.4
Evan Davis 07/10 George Osborne Conservative 0.4
John Humphrys 10/10 Peter Kilfoyle Labour 0.4
Carolyn Quinn 11/10 Ed Vazey Conservative 0.4
Evan Davis 12/10 Sir George Young Conservative 0.4
John Humphrys 13/10 David Blunkett Labour 0.4
Carolyn Quinn 18/10 John Mann Labour 0.4
Eddie Mair 20/10 Hilary Benn Labour 0.4
Andrew Neil 26/10 Austin Mitchell Labour 0.4
Ritula Shah 02/10 Sir Malcolm Rifkind Conservative 0.4
Martha Kearney 30/10 Dan Hannan Conservative 0.4
Carolyn Quinn 16/10 Baroness Uddin Labour 0.4
Shaun Ley 11/10 Baroness Ludford Lib Dem 0.4
Martha Kearney 14/10 David Laws Lib Dem 0.4
Anita Anand 16/10 Alex Salmond SNP 0.4
Carolyn Quinn 04/10 Evan Harris Lib Dem 0.4
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Martha Kearney 20/10 Nick Griffin BNP 0.3
Kirsty Wark 27/10 Tony Wright Labour 0.3
Adrian Masters 25/10 Jonathan Morgan Conservative 0.3
John Humphrys 02/10 Rhodri Morgan Labour 0.3
Ritula Shah 06/10 Eric Pickles Conservative 0.3
Jim Naughtie 19/10 Derek Clarke UKIP 0.3
Carolyn Quinn 17/10 Nick Harvey Lib Dem 0.3
Adrian Masters 11/10 Peter Hain Labour 0.3
Jim Naughtie 31/10 Adam Holloway Conservative 0.3
Anita Anand 13/10 Richard Kemp Lib Dem 0.3
Ritula Shah 19/10 Ed Miliband Labour 0.3
Shaun Ley 11/10 Jeffrey Donaldson DUP 0.3
Carolyn Quinn 18/10 Mark Field Conservative 0.3
Sarah Montague 22/10 Ken Livingstone Labour 0.3
Jeremy Paxman 28/10 Gerry Kelly Sinn Fein 0.3
Martha Kearney 29/10 Jeremy Hunt Conservative 0.3
Robin Lustig 14/10 Sir Menzies Campbell Lib Dem 0.3
Jo Coburn 29/10 Chris Huhne Lib Dem 0.3
Shirin Wheeler 04/10 Syed Kamall Conservative 0.3
Carolyn Quinn 16/10 Vernon Coaker Labour 0.3
Eddie Mair 22/10 Dominic Grieve Conservative 0.3
Andrew Marr 25/10 David Miliband Labour 0.3
Evan Davis 05/10 Michael Gove Conservative 0.3
Jane Hill 27/10 John Reid Labour 0.3
Evan Davis 07/10 Stuart Hosie SNP 0.3
Jim Naughtie 15/10 Jim Fitzpatrick Labour 0.3
Carolyn Quinn 25/10 Denis MacShane Labour 0.3
Evan Davis 29/10 Kit Malthouse Conservative 0.3
Carolyn Quinn 04/10 Emily Thornberry Labour 0.3
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Jon Sopel 18/10 Mark Hoban Conservative 0.2
Paddy O'Connell 04/10 Glenys Kinnock Labour 0.2
Andrew Neil 14/10 Theresa May Conservative 0.2
Eddie Mair 13/10 Harriet Harman Labour 0.2
Carolyn Quinn 16/10 David Miliband Labour 0.2
Jeremy Paxman 19/10 Ed Miliband Labour 0.2
Carolyn Quinn 25/10 Roger Helmer Conservative 0.2
Shaun Ley 04/10 William Hague Conservative 0.2
Ritula Shah 07/10 William Hague Conservative 0.2
Carolyn Quinn 09/10 John Hutton Labour 0.2
Anita Anand 19/10 Lord Myners Labour 0.2
Shirin Wheeler 25/10 Timothy Kirkhope Conservative 0.2
Anita Anand 06/10 Michael Portillo Conservative 0.2
Adrian Masters 11/10 Cheryl Gillan Conservative 0.2
Andrew Marr 18/10 Alex Salmond SNP 0.2
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Glenn Campbell 18/10 Alex Salmond SNP 0.1
Jim Naughtie 29/10 David Miliband Labour 0.1
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Martha Kearney 05/10 Andrew Rosindell Conservative 0
Jo Coburn 15/10 Katy Clark Labour 0
Martha Kearney 27/10 Mark Lancaster Conservative 0
Andrew Neil 05/10 Ian Taylor Conservative 0
Becky Milligan 15/10 Claire Curtis-Thomas Labour 0
Adrian Masters 18/10 Dai Lloyd Plaid Cymru 0
Ritula Shah 31/10 Afzal Akram Labour 0
Eddie Mair 07/10 Ed Miliband Labour 0
Carolyn Quinn 28/10 Diana Wallis Lib Dem 0
Adrian Masters 18/10 Nia Griffith Labour 0
Martha Kearney 05/10 Sir Malcolm Rifkind Conservative 0
Adrian Masters 25/10 Ann Jones Labour 0
Carolyn Quinn 04/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 0
Carolyn Quinn 05/10 Roger Helmer Conservative 0
Martha Kearney 06/10 Andrew Lansley Conservative 0
Robin Lustig 22/10 Sayeeda Warsi Conservative 0
Ritula Shah 23/10 Vince Cable Lib Dem 0
Jeremy Paxman 29/10 Malcolm Rifkind Conservative 0
Glenn Campbell 11/10 Eileen Baxendale Lib Dem 0
Martha Kearney 13/10 Ann Widdecombe Conservative 0
Robin Lustig 14/10 John Cruddas Labour 0
Andrew Neil 01/10 Tony McNulty Labour 0
Martha Kearney 21/10 John McFall Labour 0
Martha Kearney 26/10 David Miliband Labour 0
Sarah Montague 28/10 Vince Cable Lib Dem 0
Andrew Neil 05/10 Nigel Farage UKIP 0
Ritula Shah 08/10 Michael Gove Conservative 0
Ritula Shah 12/10 Geraldine Smith Labour 0
Paddy O'Connell 18/10 Jack Straw Labour 0
Jeremy Paxman 28/10 Bob Ainsworth Labour 0
Martha Kearney 28/10 Eric Pickles Conservative 0
Shaun Ley 30/10 Ed Miliband Labour 0
Justin Webb 02/10 Douglas Alexander Labour 0
Shirin Wheeler 04/10 Graham Watson Lib Dem 0
John Humphrys 13/10 Sir Stuart Bell Labour 0
Jeremy Paxman 13/10 Anne Begg Labour 0
Martha Kearney 14/10 Jim Knight Labour 0
Eddie Mair 21/10 John Robertson Labour 0
Shaun Ley 02/10 Mark Todd Labour 0
Evan Davis 05/10 Dominic Grieve Conservative 0
Ritula Shah 10/10 Desmond Swayne Conservative 0
Shirin Wheeler 11/10 Fiona Hall Lib Dem 0
Martha Kearney 19/10 Ed Balls Labour 0
Jim Naughtie 21/10 Baroness Miller Lib Dem 0
Robin Lustig 22/10 Chris Huhne Lib Dem 0
Carolyn Quinn 02/10 Ken Livingstone Labour 0
Eddie Mair 05/10 David Ford Alliance 0
Martha Kearney 07/10 Doug Henderson Labour 0
Carolyn Quinn 08/10 George Osborne Conservative 0
Ritula Shah 13/10 Barry Sheerman Labour 0
Anita Anand 20/10 John McFall Labour 0
Sarah Montague 21/10 David Kidney Labour 0
Martha Kearney 21/10 Norman Baker Lib Dem 0
Adrian Masters 25/10 Jane Davidson Labour 0
Felicity Evans 26/10 Mark Field Conservative 0
Martha Kearney 27/10 Andrew Mitchell Conservative 0
Sarah Montague 28/10 John McFall Labour 0
Jim Naughtie 31/10 Jeffrey Donaldson DUP 0
Shaun Ley 04/10 Leon Brittan Conservative 0
Justin Webb 07/10 Mike Foster Labour 0
Carolyn Quinn 11/10 Norman Baker Lib Dem 0
Martha Kearney 13/10 Martin Salter Labour 0
Justin Webb 16/10 Nicola Sturgeon SNP 0
Felicity Evans 16/10 Lord Carlisle Lib Dem 0
Shaun Ley 18/10 David Curry Conservative 0
Sarah Montague 28/10 David Heathcoat-Amory Conservative 0
Shirin Wheeler 18/10 Caroline Lucas Green 0
Martha Kearney 01/10 Ben Wallace Conservative 0
Shirin Wheeler 11/10 Richard Howitt Labour 0
Martha Kearney 19/10 John Prescott Labour 0
Shirin Wheeler 25/10 Stephen Hughes Labour 0
Carolyn Quinn 28/10 Angus Robertson SNP 0
Martha Kearney 14/10 Theresa May Conservative 0
Anita Anand 14/10 Theresa May Conservative 0
Glenn Campbell 18/10 Michael Moore Lib Dem 0
Martha Kearney 20/10 Paddy Ashdown Lib Dem 0
Martha Kearney 22/10 Austin Mitchell Labour 0
Glenn Campbell 25/10 Brian Wilson Labour 0
Shirin Wheeler 04/10 Arlene McCarthy Labour 0
John Humphrys 14/10 Stephen Pound Labour 0
Jim Naughtie 21/10 David Miliband Labour 0
Martha Kearney 28/10 Simon Hughes Lib Dem 0
Shirin Wheeler 25/10 Chris Davies Lib Dem 0
Shaun Ley 11/10 Charles Tannock Conservative 0
Andrew Marr 18/10 Helena Kennedy Labour 0
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