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May 2023
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PMQs Unpacked: You Owe Me Dinner

THE TIMES
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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer battle it out over migration, inflation and apprenticeships. 


Matt, Tim Shipman and Lara Spirit pause and unpack the exchanges, and Tim makes a bet on Boris Johnson's name cropping up. 


Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss whether students are getting a raw deal, Robert's trip to Iraq with the late author Martin Amis, and why Alice has started keeping bees


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