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Last Updated: Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 12:00 GMT 13:00 UK
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Two Jags had a few gags
He mixed up his words
But without mincing
When told that his English
Was clear enough
Only to impress Mr Chirac
He convincingly hit back
Hard hitting
Northern gritting
He said he favoured jaw-jaw
Rather than war-war
But what about Iraq,
Mr Prescott?

John Hegley

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1131 Andrew introduces our guests for the duration of today's 90 minute spectacular. We have the former Transport Secretary and "Blairite outrider" Stephen Byers. And we have a relative newcomer to the Westminster scene, Conservative MP Justine Greening, the politician who's been landed with the job of getting more young people to join the Tory Party.

1136 We return to our NHS Week. Today, Giles is staring into his crystal ball to find out how much the NHS might cost us in the future. But since he's in a Derbyshire maternity ward, he may have to whisper...

1139 The Metropolitan Police investigation into claims that peerages were traded for loans to the Labour Party may now be widened to cover far more serious allegations that loans to Labour resulted in favourable planning permissions and contracts from the government. So we could be on the brink of the most wide-ranging police inquiry into official corruption of modern times. Even the PM could be questioned and Downing Street forced to hand over emails and letters relating to those who've been bankrolling the party. Jenny gives us the latest.

1141 Jenny is joined by the MP who made one of the initial complaints to the police triggering their investigation, the SNP's Angus MacNeil. He says:
"From what I understood yesterday, the police would follow any line and anywhere their inquiries take them. And if that takes them to the root of checking out corruption, they will do that. And I'm pleased to see that: the police are taking this very seriously, and rightly so. You know, the whole carry-on here makes Italian politics look like a picnic."

1143 Andrew continues the discussion of corruption with Justine and Stephen, bringing in the Labour MP Paul Flynn, a member of the Public Administration Committee, which is investigating the loans issue. He says:
"The police warned us that our deliberations, particularly on television in public, might prejudice a jury in the future. We accept that if people without any caution, say something that incriminates themselves, that could be judged by a future jury or judge as being a reason for letting them off the hook, and we want to avoid that. But we certainly don't want a position where the police can come along and shut down the work of a select committee - that hasn't happened before.
We're going to pause the investigation for a short period to give the police the opportunity to find out the scale of their investigation. They have no right to stop us investigating until the matter is sub judice and that won't happen until someone is arrested -- but I believe they might well be a year away from that."

1150 No amount of loans to Andrew or Jenny can secure of the most prized objects in Westminster: the mug we award to the winner of our Guess The Year competition.

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We have a culture in this country about not spending money on good food.

We want everything as cheap as possible.

We live in a disposable society and it's down in our faces the whole time from the companies, who need to make profits.

We need to rethink everything.

Jenny Seagrove

1152 We look forward to Prime Minister's Question Time. The cats are away, so the mice are going to play - and pretty big mice they are too. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is taking on former Tory leader, the shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague. We're joined for this treat by the Newsnight political editor Martha Kearney. And instead of Ed The Bookie, we're getting a guide to the verbal fisticuffs of PMQs from John The Poet - otherwise known as John Hegley.

1159 We hand over to David Wilby and cross the road to hear the debate in the Commons.

1231 Jenny has your emails about PMQs; Andrew hears from Martha, Justine and Stephen.

1238 Jenny hears John The Poet's lyrical reinterpretation of PMQs.

1240 The answer and the winner from Guess The Year.

1241 Many of you will be sitting down to lunch as you watch, but do you really know how the food you're eating was produced? The actress Jenny Seagrove is determined to end the cruel farming of animals and though she concedes she can't make us all turn veggie, she does think she can persuade us to go organic.

1248 Back to Giles at Derby's City General Hospital for more from our NHS Week.

1255 While we've been on air, the Commons has been concentrating on the Deepcut Inquiry: the investigation into the deaths of four young soldiers at the Deepcut army barracks in Surrey amidst allegations of bullying. We hear what the Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram has told MPs.

1257 Jenny has your emails, texts and questions for Justine and Stephen.

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