OCTOBER'S I.C.s - ANDREW NEIL

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Andrew Neil (in his Daily Politics incarnation), widely considered to be the only right-winger among the Beeb's band of interviewers, headed the BBC's party conference coverage, so there are a lot of interviews to list for October, when the end of the Labour conference and the whole of the Conservative conference took place:
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28/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 3.3
06/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 3.1
06/10 Andrew Lansley Conservative 2.9
27/10 Jeremy Hunt Conservative 2.8
13/10 Evan Harris Lib Dem 2.4
05/10 Boris Johnson Conservative 2.2
12/10 Stuart Bell Labour 2.2
19/10 Hilary Benn Labour 2.1
07/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 2
05/10 Dan Hannan Conservative 1.6
12/10 Lord Oakeshott Lib Dem 1.6
15/10 Mark Simmonds Conservative 1.5
29/10 Nick Gibb Conservative 1.4
08/10 William Hague Conservative 1.4
21/10 Nick Herbert Conservative 1.4
07/10 Michael Gove Conservative 1.3
08/10 Theresa May Conservative 1.3
12/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 1
01/10 Bill Rammell Labour 1
22/10 John Hutton Labour 1
15/10 Tony McNulty Labour 1
28/10 Peter Hain Labour 0.9
01/10 Phil Woolas Labour 0.8
19/10 John Mann Labour 0.7
29/10 Chris Huhne Lib Dem 0.7
08/10 George Osborne Conservative 0.7
13/10 Norman Baker Lib Dem 0.6
21/10 Caroline Flint Labour 0.6
05/10 David Cameron Conservative 0.5
14/10 John Hutton Labour 0.4
26/10 Austin Mitchell Labour 0.4
14/10 Theresa May Conservative 0.2
05/10 Ian Taylor Conservative 0
01/10 Tony McNulty Labour 0
05/10 Nigel Farage UKIP 0
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The resultant averages for October are intriguing:
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Conservatives - 1.6
Lib Dems - 1.33
Labour - 0.93
UKIP - 0
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This result is not untypical. Here are the super-averages over all 77 of his interviews since I began my study:
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Conservatives (24) - 1.82
SNP (3) - 1.23
Lib Dems (16) - 1.19
Labour (33) - 1.04
UKIP (1) - 0
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Surprised? Well, at least no lefties can accuse Andrew of pro-Tory bias!!!
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