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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign.

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Election claims and erection claims

What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?

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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

The UK's money troubles, NHS managers and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis.

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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanian nurses in the UK.

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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

Plus migrants v pensioners and Ed Miliband鈥檚 energy auction claim.

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How do you count millionaires?

Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease

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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong.

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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.

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Should the government target persnuffle?

Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter鈥檚 origin story.

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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?

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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits.

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Are older drivers more dangerous?

Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.

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