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Grant Shapps said the Conservative party is now the workers’ party. In 2010 Labour won the popular vote among social classes D and E, by 40% to 31%. But here is how voting shifted in each social class from the 2005 to the 2010 election:
| Conservative | |
| AB | +2% |
| C1 | +2% |
| C2 | +4% |
| DE | +6% |
| Labour | |
| AB | -2% |
| C1 | -4% |
| C2 | -11% |
| DE | -8% |
Source: Ipsos Mori
David Cameron and Alex Salmond both talked about oil in Aberdeen. How much are Scotland’s oil reserves worth?
— £1.5 trillion, according to the SNP, more than £300,000 for every man, woman and child in Scotland.
— £120 billion, according to the Office of National Statistics, which has subtracted the cost of extracting the oil to arrive at what it says is the net value to the Treasury.
New York abandoned a plan to clear the subway of rough sleepers. Which capital has the most homeless on the streets?
— New York: 53,300 living in homeless shelters; 1,800 on the subway system
(Coalition for the Homeless)
— London: 6,440 sleeping rough
(Homeless charity Broadway)
— Paris: 12,000 sleeping rough
(French national statistics office)
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