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Westminster Hour: 16/05/2021

16/05/2021

BBC Radio 4 - Westminster Hour, 16/05/2021

Carolyn Quinn hosts Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.

Carolyn Quinn talks politics with Skills Minister Gillian Keegan, Labour's Emma Lewell-Buck, Henri Murison from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and FT journalist  George Parker

Carolyn Quinn is joined by the the Skills Minister, Gillian Keegan; Labour backbencher Emma Lewell-Buck; the director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Henri Murison; and the FT's political editor, George Parker. They discuss the re-opening of indoor hospitality in England and the risks posed by the so-called India variant of coronavirus. They also debate the government's "levelling up" agenda, and look ahead to the Batley and Spen by-election. And the programme includes an interview with the crossbench peer Lord Burns, on reducing the size of the House of Lords.

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