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Politics Live: 16/12/2021

16/12/2021

BBC Two - Politics Live, 16/12/2021

Discussions on whether businesses need state support during this Omicron wave.

Jo Coburn is joined by Andrew Bowie MP, Emily Thornberry, Helen Pidd and Iain Martin to discuss whether businesses need state support during this Omicron wave.

Jo Coburn is joined by the Conservative MP Andrew Bowie, shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry, The Guardian’s North of England editor Helen Pidd and The Times columnist Iain Martin to discuss whether businesses need state support during this Omicron wave, how we might avoid future national lockdowns, and proposals for the UK to liberalise its drugs laws. 



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