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Issues affecting British social and political life.

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Politics UK is the weekly programme that covers British political and policy issues, economic and cultural change and Britain’s standing in Europe and the rest of the world in a way that is relevant to an international audience.  
It's the flagship programme for UK political analysis and debate on the BBC World Service.  
Leading politicians, commentators and intellectuals take part each week to discuss and reflect on the main events shaping British politics.

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Politics UK Archive: 23/07/2010 | US-UK relations | Afghanistan | Banning the veil

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23/07/2010 | US-UK relations | Afghanistan | Banning the veil

BBC World Service - Politics UK Archive, 23/07/2010 | US-UK relations | Afghanistan | Banning the veil

A weekly look inside British politics from the BBC with Edward Stourton.

How special is the relationship between the UK and the US? Why does the Government find it so hard to explain its policy in Afghanistan? Banning the veil: un-British but a la mode across the Channel?

This week's look inside British politics is presented by Edward Stourton.
How special is the relationship between the UK and the US? Diplomatic strains over BP and the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi and a President looking further West certainly signal change. We speak to Sir David Manning, British ambassador to Washington in the later years of Tony Blair's government.
We ask Professor Malcolm Chalmers of the Royal United Services Institute why the British Government finds it so hard to explain its policy in Afghanistan.
Banning the veil: why is it un-British but a la mode across the Channel? We speak to Dominique Moisi of the French Institute for International Relations; we also discuss the burqa with the Muslim columnist and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Sahida Saleem who hit the headlines in Britain when she refused to go through an airport security full body-scanner.

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