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Today in Parliament: 11/07/2012

11/07/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Today in Parliament, 11/07/2012

Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.

It is the last Prime Minister's Question Time before Parliament's summer recess. Sean Curran presents the best of the weekly duel between David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

So could the Coalition Government be about to disintegrate after Tuesday's splits over reforming the House of Lords? Sean Curran reports on the scene at Westminster the day after the late night rebellion by Conservative MPs. Ed Miliband and David Cameron do battle in the final round of Prime Ministers Questions before the summer recess. Once again, the Government's economic record is central to the noisy exchanges between the leaders. 
Also on the programme:
* A Conservative MP argues that British Commonwealth citizens should be given priority treatment when they pass through airport terminals in the UK. 
* Rachel Byrne reports on the latest plans for the funding of care in England. There's plenty of reaction to the proposal that elderly people would be offered loans so the sale of their homes could be delayed until after their deaths. 
* Simon Jones reports on MPs' heated discussions over a plan to change the hours they sit in the Commons chamber.
* Bob Clifford reports on the views of the Lords to the current difficulties facing dairy farmers.

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