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Radio 4,12 Nov 2011,30 mins

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Journalist and broadcaster Sue Cameron looks behind the scenes at Westminster. A week in which parliament flexed its muscles calling cabinet secretaries civil servants and media magnates to account. Dominic Raab Conservative MP and Jonathan Baume of the senior civil service union FDA on the responsibility for failures at the UK Borders Agency. Margaret Hodge and Stephen Dorrell, both chair select committees chairs, on how tough can they be in questioning witnesses And Deborah Mattinson of the research agency BritainThinks looks back over the work of the late Labour strategist Lord Gould with Lord Fowler. Plus Lord Liddle former adviser to Tony Blair puts the case for Europe. The editor is Marie Jessel.

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