OCTOBER'S I.C.s - ANITA ANAND

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Andrew Neil's left-wing co-host on the Daily Politics Anita Anand can usually be relied on to beat up on a Tory, or UKIPer, or English Democrat - especially when left to her own devices. October was no exception in that respect:

08/10 Alun Cairns Conservative 2.9
30/10 Mark Field Conservative 1.8
14/10 John Hutton Labour 1.7
02/10 Greg Clark Conservative 1.5
28/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 1.2
20/10 Alan Duncan Conservative 1.1
28/10 Peter Hain Labour 0.9
12/10 Dan Hannan Conservative 0.9
08/10 Ruth Davidson Conservative 0.8
02/10 Margaret Beckett Labour 0.7
16/10 Khalid Mahmood Labour 0.6
21/10 Caroline Flint Labour 0.6
21/10 Nick Herbert Conservative 0.5
30/10 Lord Desai Labour 0.4
07/10 David Davis Conservative 0.4
16/10 Alex Salmond SNP 0.4
13/10 Richard Kemp Lib Dem 0.3
19/10 Lord Myners Labour 0.2
06/10 Michael Portillo Conservative 0.2
20/10 John McFall Labour 0
14/10 Theresa May Conservative 0

The high I.C. scored against John Hutton has skewed the results slightly because Anita vehemently attacked him over Sir Thomas Legg - for defending Sir Thomas against all those poor hard-done-to Labour MPs. This was not an anti-Labour attack. Far from it. (Similarly, her remarkably aggressive assault on Labour's Barry Gardiner yesterday was an assault on his defence of the sacking of the horse-riding-averse, not-so-cannabis-averse Dr David Nutt and Mr Gardiner's own hard-line on drugs.)
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Still, these are Anita's interruption coefficients for October:
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Conservatives - 1.03
Labour - 0.64
SNP - 0.4
Lib Dems - 0.3
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This seem pretty clear-cut, but what of her behaviour over the last five months? There are 53 interviews to consider and these are even stronger proof of active bias:
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UKIP (1) - 2.8
Conservatives (18) - 0.98
English Democrats (1) - 0.8
Labour (22) - 0.5
Lib Dems (7) - 0.43
SNP (3) - 0.4
Greens (1) - 0
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This emphatically demonstrates left-wing bias against the three right-of-centre parties, and a far softer line on those of the Left. Quelle surprise!