At most events of this type, the host tends to keep the vast majority of speaking slots to itself, all the better to bandy about its good works.

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This is because their promises and the figures they bandy about are fact-checked in real time , by journalists and experts, ensuring a simultaneous and enlightened subtitle service that underlines the politicians' rolling spiel.

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KPMG's Mr Sharman fumes that it is not clients who bandy charges about breaches of confidentiality but, by and large, non-clients.

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