michael spagat. thank— is really, really very high.really very high. michael spagat, thank you very _ is really, really very high. michael spagat, thank you very much - is really, really very high. michael i spagat, thank you very much indeed for talking to us. labour has called for tory mp lee anderson to lose the whip over what it described as "islamophobic" comments about mayor of london, sadiq khan. mr anderson told gb news that islamists had "got control" of mr khan and he had "given our capital city away to his mates". a conservative source told the bbc that mr anderson was "simply making the point" that mr khan had "failed to get a grip on appalling islamist marches" in london. our political correspondent charlotte rose has the latest. these comments were made on gb news, which is a small uk news channel that favours right—wing commentators and analysts. lee anderson is a conservative mp for a seat in the east midlands, and also, up until last month, a deputy chairman of the conservative party. he said the mayor of london, sadiq

michael spagat is the chair of "every casualty counts" and a professor at royal holloway, universitylondon. he has been collating statistical analysis of the fatalities in gaza. i asked him what he's been looking at. first of all, i'm looking at the pace of the killing and how this compares to some other wars, and i would say that this war has a remarkably rapid pace of killing if you adjust for the population size. so, the graphic is showing a comparison with the war in ukraine over the first year and also with the 2003 war in iraq, the first six weeks, which were dubbed the "shock and awe" period. and what you can see is that the number of people killed per day, per 10,000 of population, is far higher in gaza than it is in either of those. which is not to say that the number of people getting killed is higher, but adjusting for population. of people getting killed is higher, adjusting for population, and that's where you get that huge difference in the size of the bar graphs there. and when you looked a bit deeper into the numbers, what did you find? so, one thing is if you look at

earlier, i spoke to michael spagat.ollating a statistical analysis of the fatalities in gaza. i began by asking him about the credibility of the figures. from the start, i think they were highly credible, they were making a very serious attempt to document all of the death that was happening. we know this for several reasons. we know this for several reasons. we know that in past rounds of conflict, the ministry of health figures have held up and have even been consistent with the official israeli figures that have been released afterwards. more importantly, on october 26, the moh released a detailed spreadsheet that listed nearly 7000 victims in considerable detail, with names, ages, sexes and national id, which were originally assigned by the israelis in the first place so that the israelis have the wherewithal to quickly check if these are real people. of course, people who were alive but listed on that list i think would have been fairly quickly exposed. and in addition to that, there was a study that looked at deat