Rory Stewart

than Britain.

But by the time you get down to somewhere like Nigeria, it's 16, to give a sense of that.

What's your favorite Nigerian stat?

One in 10 children born in the world will be born in Nigeria by 2050.

It's also true that all demographic projections are always wrong.

Exactly.

But also, I mean, yeah, I mean, we need to talk about that in more detail some other time.

And as you pointed out, it's obviously not just that they're very healthy and eating good food.

It's also they're just not having any children.

And that's a problem for South Korea.

South Korea, I think, you know, the average number of children is now getting down to about 0.3 per family.

So there's this demographic collapse and no immigration coming.

kids now what do you think about Victor Orban's policy I mean it's quite interesting right he's saying that anyone any woman who has three children is exempt from income tax now any woman who has two children exempt from income tax it's presumably quite you know if you were wondering am I going to have a second child third child being exempt from income tax for your whole life that's pretty good and we've got an election coming up and I wonder if that might be why he's suddenly saying let's give some more money to parents yeah

So it's a totally different system.

Then it's much easier to see people allying against.

Exactly.

So I think the positive story, which is what our question is pushing, is it's rather interesting because what happened is that

the Catholic Church came out for the left-wing presidential candidate.

Quite a lot of right-wing politicians came out against the far right.

So there was a sort of nice story of people creating a kind of firewall to exclude the far right candidate.