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Quantifying last night's Question Time reveals the following stats:
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Who got most time to speak?
1. Liam Byrne - 11 minutes 7 seconds
2. Richard Madeley - 8 minutes 34 seconds
3. Sarah Teather - 8 minutes 25 seconds
4. Caroline Spelman - 8 minutes 7 seconds
5. Andrew Roberts - 7 minutes 30 seconds
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Who received the most interruptions from David Dimbleby?
1. Caroline Spelman - 15
2. Sarah Teather - 11
3. Liam Byrne - 7
4. Andrew Roberts - 3
5. Richard Madeley - 1
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Who scored the highest interruption coefficient?
1. Caroline Spelman - 1.9
2. Sarah Teather - 1.3
3. Liam Byrne - 0.6
4. Andrew Roberts -0.3
5. Richard Madeley - 0.1
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Who was asked the most supplementary questions by David Dimbleby?
1. Caroline Spelman - 17
2. Sarah Teather - 9
3. Liam Byrne - 6
4. Andrew Roberts - 4
5. Richard Madeley - 1
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Not a bad night out for oily Liam Byrne and the Labour Party was it?
Excellent job Craig, your analysis is very revealing. Why Conservative Central Office don't push this sort of analysis is beyond me.
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ReplyDeleteI've e-mailed the information to Caroline Spelman. Hopefully it might made her think.
The worst one recently featured Andrew Lansley (3/12), who was interrupted 21 times (as compared to 5 times for Margaret Beckett). I've e-mailed him too!
In fact, from now on I'm going to e-mail anyone from the Centre Right who's on the receiving end of Dimbleby's interruptions.
(That means I won't be e-mailing Peter Hain!! Was last week's very unusual, very unexpected assault on him by Dimbleby the result of his continuing resentment at Hain's strong attacks on the programme over the BNP, I wonder?)
Unfortunately I think Caroline Spelman may well be a waste of space on this issue; she comes over very poorly on Question Time etc. and I think has been over promoted. There are too many 'nice' Conservative MPs who don't attack anything because they are scared of not being loved by the media.
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