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Nov 2022
22m 23s

The Power Of Hot Air

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Rishi Sunak is facing another parliamentary rebellion over onshore wind farms, while there's been another kind of hot air around former Health Secretary Matt Hancock's performance on reality TV show I'm a Celebrity. Bloomberg's Yuan Potts and Stephen Carroll are joined by our Opinion columnist Therese Raphael to discuss why the Prime Minister and Keir Starmer might be taking an economics lesson from Joe Biden. Richard Donnell from property website Zoopla tells us about their latest data on the UK's housing market. 

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