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More or Less: Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

Will Rishi Sunak's pledge to halve inflation happen?

One of Rishi Sunak's five priorities for 2023 is to halve inflation. Given prices are still rising, we discuss whether it's going be possible. Also does Scotland have more tidal power capacity than the rest of the world combined, as has been claimed? We look at competing claims about how prepared the NHS was before the pandemic, ask whether scrapping VAT on products like tampons and e-books has actually benefitted consumers and look at the claim that one in three women in the UK has had an abortion.

**This programme has been updated to include corrected figures for inflation in the first item.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Series Producer: Jon Bithrey
Reporters: Josephine Casserly, Nathan Gower, Charlotte McDonald, Beth Ashmead Latham
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: James Beard

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