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22/06/2011

Sean Curran and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's parliamentary team with all the day's top news stories from Westminster, including a report on the exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions.

Sean Curran and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's parliamentary team with all the day's top news stories from Westminster. There's a report on exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions where the Labour leader Ed Miliband challenges David Cameron over plans to stop the retention of DNA from rape suspects. Mr Miliband also describes as "crass" the Prime Minister's comment yesterday that military chiefs should do the fighting, not the talking. Mr Cameron countered that the police WERE able to keep DNA on the computer. And he insisted that British forces can maintain the current level of operations in Libya despite concerns raised by senior military figures. Also on the programme: MPs accuse the energy regulator failing to do enough to stop price rises; and anger among Scottish nationalists at being described as "neo-fascists". We also report on a proposal to ban smoking in cars when children are present and on the feisty clashes between the Chancellor George Osborne and his Labour opposite number, Ed Balls.

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Wed 22 Jun 2011 23:30

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