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The Times Article Rating

Loss of North Sea oil jobs 'could hurt Tories for a generation'

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  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Somewhat Left

  • Politician Portrayal

    -3% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : She said it had taken over 35 years for the party to recover support in parts of Yorkshire, County Durham, Lancashire, the East Midlands and Wales which lost hundreds of thousands of well-paid jobs in the coal industry.
38% : Dame Caroline Spelman said her party could suffer the same backlash as it did in the 1980s in areas where Margaret Thatcher closed coal mines unless there was a plan to help workers move to jobs in green industries.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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