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The Week in Westminster: 05/05/2012

05/05/2012

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Sue Cameron of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Westminster this week.

Sue Cameron of the Daily Telegraph asks if power is draining away from Westminster.

Sue Cameron of The Daily Telegraph asks if power is draining away from Westminster?

She consults Tony Travers of the LSE; former Tory chief of staff Michael Dobbs; the Labour MP Gisela Stuart who wanted to stand as Mayor in Birmingham; and the Tory MP on the public accounts committee, Richard Bacon.

How far is disaffection with politics driving voting in the French elections? A subject for the former foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and the French journalist Agnes Poirier.

Editor: Peter Mulligan.

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