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Radio 4,23 Jul 2011,30 mins

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With MPs and peers having left Westminster for their summer holidays, George Parker of The Financial Times reflects on the ups and downs, and the fortunes good and bad, of a turbulent political year. He weighs the scales with Steve Richards of the Independent, Jackie Ashley of The Guardian, Fraser Nelson of The Spectator and Tim Montgomerie of the website, ConservativeHome.

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