The Tory interest in social exclusion is very welcome. One of the underlying problems is that there are no Tory MPs and v.few if any councillors representing the most deprived areas. So this highlights the danger of Common People style "poverty tourism" (and indeed "broken society porn" served up to the national media, which seems to have become an endemic risk to the "broken Britain" approach whenever it risks veering too close to a social fact.

Perhaps the 54% slip is because that's what they think life in the hood is like. What makes this more surprising is that the document claims that the range of teen pregnancy is between 19% and 54% everywhere across the UK, with one in five young women under 18 getting pregnant in the *most affluent* areas in Britain. That is claimed more than once too.

That suggests even the modernisers at CCHQ may have a 'Dacreland nightmare' blindspot which means several staffers, senior advisers and shadow ministers could see that and thinks "looks about right"

Shouldn't NS find out who saw/approved this document?

@jmedwards - a 553.2% pregnancy rate would not be 'unreasonable': it would be impossible. Surely, we should expect higher maths standards than that from people who want to run the country!
@Dave Smith - if this error is on the same scale as the 45-minute claim, then we should all be twittering about it!

The Tories are selling themselves as the new benefactors of the poor and to be making this kind of 'blunder' or 'mistake' only highlights what they imagine goes on in the so-called 'broken' Britain they're so resolved to fix.

How dense are you people. No one thought 54 percent of teens were pregnant.

It was a typing error by a young staffer.

What will Carol Vorderman say with regard to the mathematical abilities of the conservative party. Somewhat ironic.

Labour flooded this country with massive immigration and refused to publish documents from civil servants that would have showed the effects of this.

Gordon Brown says Spain is in the G20 when UK was the only G20 economy still in recession.

Labour blocks MET reports on the findings of the global warming e-mails.

I will never forget 2005 election when the issue was michael howard and not tony blair.

You can be the biggest war criminal imaginable but if you are labour you are guaranteed to be elected again.

I will never forget the liberal voters tearing into howard and giving Blair more time in office.

The politics in the UK sucks.

It wasn't a blunder. A staffer by mistake typed it in wrong. I swear the UK is so biased against conservatives that this non story is leading on so many news sites. I am now convinced Labour will be in power forever.

Conservatives won't get a majority and Brown will refuse to give up power and he will change the voting system to keep him in power forever.

We could be looking at another decade of Gordon Brown as PM and then god knows what labour leader will lead us after that.

Labour will gerrymander the system so bad to keep them in power forever.

jason, you sound pretty vexed and i don't want to annoy you further, but... even if, as you say, a "staffer" typed this in by accident, it was released into the public domain. So it would have gone through proof readers, senior press people, at least one senior policy person. There is absolutely no way a junior would be the last eyes on a document of this magnitude.