LADIES' NIGHT WITH DAVID DIMBLEBY

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Late on parade, here comes this week's Dimbledata:
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Who got most time to speak?
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1. Caroline Flint (Lab) - 13 minutes 49 seconds
2. Kelvin MacKenzie (journalist) - 8 minutes 39 seconds
3. Jo Swinson (LD) - 6 minutes 46 seconds
4. Justine Greening (Con) - 5 minutes 51 seconds
5. Monty Don (gardener) - 4 minutes 32 seconds (yes I know, it felt like longer!!)
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Who received the most interruptions from David Dimbleby?
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1. Caroline Flint (Lab) - 10
2. Kelvin MacKenzie (journalist) - 6
3. Jo Swinson (LD) - 6
4. Monty Don (gardener) - 4
5. Justine Greening (Con) - 1 (who would have thought it!!!)
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Who scored the highest interruption coefficient?
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1. Monty Don (gardener) - 0.9
2. Jo Swinson (LD) - 0.9
3. Caroline Flint (Lab) - 0.7
4. Kelvin Mackenzie - 0.7
5. Justine Greening (Con) - 0.2
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Who was asked the most supplementary questions by David Dimbleby?
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1. Caroline Flint (Lab) - 11
2. Kelvin MacKenzie - 8
3. Jo Swinson (LD) - 5
4. Monty Don - 3
5. Justine Greening (Con) - 1
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This was an untypical programme in many ways. It had an all-women audience and, more importantly, a wider range of opinion in the audience - quite a bit of it sensible! - and few obvious Labour plants. You don't expect any of that from the usual run of Question Time audiences!
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After taking against Kelvin MacKenzie over the Venables story, Dimbleby redeemed himself by taking against Caroline Flint over defence. She can't have enjoyed the experience. In contrast Justine Greening came off unscathed. I wasn't expecting that at all!! Justine's only grounds for complaint were that Caroline Flint got well over double the amount of time that she got. Indeed, it was The Caroline Flint Show at times!