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Radio 4,7 mins

Should applause be allowed in the Commons?

Westminster Hour

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From Robin Cook's resignation and Tony Blair's final PMQs, to John Bercow berating SNP applause and Tessa Jowell's emotional final speech in the Lords, recent Parliamentary history has a growing number of examples of MPs and Peers breaking convention by clapping. The Westminster Hour's Keith Macdougall has been looking at whether that convention should be scrapped.

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