What The Post failed to mention

David Seymour took part in a debate at Oxford Union. Most of the reports were fairly balanced, but the one from Harriette Boucher (could she be related to the owner of Stuff?) at The Post said they did a straw poll of 7 audience members and none of them backed Seymour.

What they didn’t mention was that the actual vote at the debate was very close – I think 98 to 83. Considering the topic was “no one can be illegal on stolen land” with Seymour’s team opposed, that was a remarkably close result. Even more remarkable as his two teammates were both Trump supporting Republicans who would hardly appeal to liberal Oxford students!

The chance of choosing 7 members of the audience at random who all voted the other way is around 2.1%.