The Week in Westminster

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The Week in Westminster: 26/11/2022

26/11/2022

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Paul Waugh reviews the week's events in Westminster.

Paul Waugh from the i newspaper reviews the week's events in Westminster.

Paul Waugh, chief political commentator at the i newspaper looks back at the week in Westminster. Following the Supreme Court ruling on the jurisidiction of another independence referendum in Scotland, the Scottish leaders of Labour and the Conservatives, Anas Sawar MSP and Douglas Ross MP MSP, debate its consequences with Kirsty Oswald MP, deputy leader of the SNP at Westminster. 

Also on the programme., the Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight, Bob Seely, and Rachel Wolf, co-author of the 2019 Conservative manifesto, discuss housing targets amid party dvisions over the issue this week. Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, the former Conservative arts minister talks about her concerns over the recent funding announcement by Arts Council England. Finally, the Labour frontbencher and biographer, Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, and the Sun's Harry Cole, who's biography of Liz Truss was published this week, consider timely political history.

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