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The Week in Westminster: 11/02/2023

11/02/2023

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Isabel Hardman of The Spectator reviews the week's events in Westminster.

Assistant Editor of The Spectator, Isabel Hardman, looks back at the week in which Ukraine's President Zelensky addressed Parliament after making a surprise visit to the UK. 

Isabel speaks to the former secretary-general of NATO, Lord George Robertson and the former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox about President's Zelensky's address to Westminster Hall and what the UK should do to help Ukraine. 

She is also joined by Dame Kate Bingham, the former vaccines tsar and managing partner of life sciences venture capital firm SV health Investors to discuss the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and how Britain can become a science superpower. 

The former DUP leader and first minister of Northern Ireland, Baroness Arlene Foster discusses the Northern Ireland protocol. 

And why are an increasing number of politicians becoming TV and radio presenters? Former Labour MP and now GB News presenter Gloria de Piero debates this with  Financial Times chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley.

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