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Jun 2022
20m 7s

Degrading of Democracy

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Liberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain says the Tories seem to have no strategy except keeping Boris Johnson in power. She told Bloomberg's Yuan Potts and Stephen Carroll the 'Partygate' scandal is a 'degrading of democracy'. Plus: will the Government's new scheme to give visas to graduates from top overseas universities prove a success? We ask Joe Marshall from the National Centre for Universities and Business. And Andrew Harvey from Nationwide, on the continuing rise in house prices.

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