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Today in Parliament: 23/03/2011

23/03/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Today in Parliament, 23/03/2011

Rachel Byrne reports on today's debates in Parliament.

Rachel Byrne reports on how the Chancellor's Budget speech was received by a packed House of Commons.

George Osborne presents his second Budget to the House of Commons, and Ed Miliband makes his Opposition Leader's speech in reply. Rachel Byrne presents the highlights. Also on the programme, Viv Robins has a round up of backbench opinions on the Budget. Simon Jones follows the exchanges between the party leaders at Prime Minister's Question Time. And Kristiina Cooper covers peers' views about the long-drawn-out saga of the British computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a sufferer from Asperger's Syndrome.

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