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| Andrew Marr |
Today's utterly delightful edition of The Andrew Marr Show featured three big political interviews.
By my reckoning: The one with UKIP's Paul Nuttall lasted 6m 17s and contained 10 interruptions; the one with Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood lasted 4m 07s and contained 2 interruptions; and the one with Labour's Jeremy Corbyn lasted 23m 41s and contained 28 interruptions.
By my reckoning: The one with UKIP's Paul Nuttall lasted 6m 17s and contained 10 interruptions; the one with Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood lasted 4m 07s and contained 2 interruptions; and the one with Labour's Jeremy Corbyn lasted 23m 41s and contained 28 interruptions.
Using my old 'interruption coefficients' - where you simply divide the number of interruptions (made by the interviewer) by the length of the interview and the higher the interruption coefficient (I.C.) the tougher the interview - that works out today as (drum roll please!): an I.C. of 1.6 for Paul Nuttall, and I.C. of 1.2 for Jeremy Corbyn and an I.C. of 0.5 for Leanne Wood - meaning that Paul Nuttall fared worst, interruptions-wise, at the hands of Andrew Marr today.
Who'd have expected that?
And going for statistical overkill (possibly)...
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| Paul Nuttall |
The Paul Nuttall interview mainly focused on the burqa ban question (taking up 67% of the interview), with shorter sections on how UKIP might not stand against strongly pro-Brexit MPs from other parties (27%) and if/where Mr Nuttall himself might stand in the general election (6%).
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| Leanne Wood |
The Leanne Wood interview mainly focused on questions of Plaid's 'constitutional vision' (taking up 59% of the interview), with other sections on Ms Wood's views on Labour's bank holiday plan (she approves of , 21%) and if/where she herself might stand (20%).
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| Jeremy Corbyn |
The Jeremy Corbyn interview devoted 37% of the interview to foreign policy questions, though Britain's nuclear weapons were, by far, the single biggest issue for Andrew Marr in this section - though NATO, Russia and whether or not al-Baghdadi should be killed were other questions. Party political matters took up 13% of the interview; the bank holidays question 8%, matters related to private v public in the NHS and schools 19%, and Brexit 23%.
Calculators down!
