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Jul 2024
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Colchester

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Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Colchester. On the panel tonight, Siân Berry MP, Green Party of England and Wales, Baroness Camilla Cavendish, columnist at The Financial Times, George Freeman MP, Conservatives, and Peter Kyle MP, Labour's Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary.

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